Category Archives: Notes from the field

My Twelve from ’12. CB

2012 has been quite a busy year for my photography business and somehow along the way I’ve also managed to make a few decent photographs too! I have never taken the time to do a photographic year-in-review until now (at … Continue reading

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WildPhotos 2012 – a view from the inside. PHD

There is always a sense of temporal dislocation when I return to Britain for a while and then come back home–to Italy. As well as the usual round of family visits, our sojourn this time included WildPhotos 2012 where I … Continue reading

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Getting Down with Aphids. CB

Each year, beginning in late summer and moving into fall, there is a particular Beech Tree (Fagus grandifolia) that is inundated with Beech Blight Aphids (Grylloprociphilus imbricator). When these aphids are young, they cover the tree’s limbs and leaves with … Continue reading

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Revealed – hidden Colours in the earth beneath us. PHD

Light has always been a passion from its science to its art. As a child, I was given a small triangular glass prism that had belonged to an aged aunt and was intrigued by how light from a slit in … Continue reading

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Orchid Tales – The Marsh Helleborine (Epipactis palustris) PHD

It  was around half a century ago, when tramping through the Kenfig dune slacks to get to Sker beach on the S Wales coast that I first noticed the Marsh Helleborine (Epipactis palustris). I was around 10 at the time and … Continue reading

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Where does time go?

The question posed is, of course, rhetorical and, moreover, utterly devoid of meaning when analysed – for time goes nowhere but forward, if, in any sense time can be said to go, that is… but who cares? This morning, I … Continue reading

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An Italian winter – words from beneath the snow. PHD

It must have been around 1.00am this very morn that I woke with a bright shaft of light coming through one of those many cracks where my renovated shutters do not quite reach the window frame. A full moon was … Continue reading

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Waiting for opportunity. AP

I have always had a very philosophical approach to wildlife photography and, in the absence of any organised plan, I usually end up just photographing whatever happens to come my way. There’s no doubt that it is a chaotic approach, … Continue reading

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The Dance of the Fireflies . Bd’A

Bruno D’Amicis/www.brunodamicis.com in Italiano qui The nuptial flight of the fireflies was one of the highlights of my childhood summer holidays. In fact, when the nights became warm enough, hundreds of these fluorescent lights would dot the country landscape. And … Continue reading

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Spring foxes.AP

Above: watching a passing hot air balloon There are a great many species in the UK with which I am a little obsessed and foxes are certainly one of them. Over the years I have spent hundreds of hours scouring … Continue reading

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