Tag Archives: autumn

Missing those Mantids. PHD

I caught the heavier-than-air machine after a four hour unscheduled wait at Rome’s Fiumicino airport,  winging my way to WildPhotos 2o12 via the long route. First down to Devon (two wee granddaughters to be a ‘Nonno’ to) then to Wales … 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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Smell – how does it affect your personal perception of nature ? .PHD

In the small hours of this morning I got up and went outside to witness an amazing light show created by the irrespressible forces of nature. I may have mentioned this before but storms here in our part of Italy … Continue reading

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The White Movement grows! NB.

All photos in this post © Lars Andreas Dybvik A few years ago, when I spoke to the Naturfoto group in Trondheim, I met a young photographer called Lars Andreas Dybvik. Since then I’ve been intrigued by his novel take … Continue reading

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Perpetuation not perfection. PHD.

Yesterday, while shaping some ‘twiddly bits’ on the bandsaw for a four-poster bed that I am making (typical sort of thing you do to survive as a nature photographer in Italy…) I spotted one of the last of the year’s … Continue reading

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Season of mists and a bit of mellow fruitfulness. PHD

Our neighbours are clearly worried for, over the last few years, the local weather has become highly unpredictable. Even those who work in the local city are ‘contadini’ (smallholders) at heart: they plant and till by the phases of the … Continue reading

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Life BC (1997)

…in this case Before Children. I took this picture in Glen Affric, Inverness-shire about 10 days before my son was born. It was at the end of a frantic summer’s work round Scotland, driven by the well-founded expectation that life … Continue reading

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Norwegian wood

Until a couple of years ago, Norway was a favourite escape destination for me, accessible with my campervan by ferry between Newcastle and Bergen. I was just beginning to get under the skin of the place when the ferry service … Continue reading

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