Monthly Archives: October 2011

Insects On a Shoestring. CB

Like many of you out there, I’ve become more and more interested in multi-media. As a natural extension of my love of macrophotography, my target subjects will be insects and other small creatures. I recently came across this post by … Continue reading

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Seal mortality at Donna Nook. NB

It’s about 10 years since I made my only visit to Donna Nook on the Lincolnshire coast. What a spectacle it was: many hundreds of young and old grey seals doing everything that seals do on a huge expanse of … Continue reading

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Creative Visions of Nature. Not. NB

This is a very, very hard post to write. There are so many people I could offend (many of them still friends), so many accusations that could be hurled my way, so much scope for misrepresentation. But that’s never stopped … Continue reading

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The Natural History of ULSTER – John Faulkner & Robert Thompson. PHD

Christmas is coming but here, in Italy, we are mercifully free of the crass commercialism that infests every facet of British life in the run up to the annual blow-out. And, best of all, there is only the occasional inflatable … Continue reading

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Tripods are Dead. CB

Well, not really. But for some, a preview of Adobe’s new “Anti-Blur” technology will offer a satisfactory reason to leave the three-legged beast at home. For years we’ve watched in awe as crime-show detectives bark out “ENHANCE IMAGE!” to a … Continue reading

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Mantis Moments .PHD

Here, it is still warm…but I shall not dwell on that and things are buzzing with a kind of desperation that signals end of summer… nasty, cold, ache-inducing weather ahead. However, the garden, that all-embracing term we use for the … Continue reading

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Carving Feathers. CB

This weekend I’m going to have the great pleasure of heading down to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA to see the work of one amazingly talented guy and fellow South Carolinian: Grainger McKoy. Oh, and there is … Continue reading

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The northern nightjar…NB

This bothers me: I’ve started, after many month’s delay, to read Sara Wheeler’s universally lauded “The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic”. But a sentence in the second paragraph of the first chapter has made me wonder whether I want … Continue reading

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Assynt deconstruction. NB

I never did manage to shoot as many elements for an Assynt deconstruction as I had hoped, but nevertheless came away with enough for two 55 image panels from our time there in January and June. For a fuller explanation … Continue reading

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Joe Cornish’s new book. NB

On the way up from giving a talk and presentation at Stokesely, North Yorkshire, last weekend, Charlotte and I dropped in to have coffee with Joe Cornish. As always, I came away inspired, humbled and believing in the power of … Continue reading

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