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Tag Archives: Italy
Naturalife Magazine Numero 3. PHD
Some time ago, editor Alessandro Guadenzi got in touch with me through a very good friend and superb photographer Leo Battista. The result is a feature “My Italy” in the latest edition. It is a lovely magazine – a labour … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Conservation, Italian Life, Meet Your Neighbours
Tagged Alessandro Guadenzi, garden, insects, Italy, myn, Naturalife Magazine, wildlife
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A love of the Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium calceolus)
When I was 15 years old I was given a Christmas present of a remarkable book – The Concise British Flora in Colour by the Rev W. Keble Martin, a country parson who, spent many years travelling in his spare … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Comment, Meet Your Neighbours
Tagged Abruzzo, Cypripedium calceolus, Italy, Lady's Slipper, myn, orchids
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Yet More Snow. PHD
On Sunday I did what I do far too seldom – I went out with camera just for the hell of it. It is what I used to do once upon a time – speculative photography, recording anything which struck … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Italian Life
Tagged Italy, Podere Montecucco, snow, Umbria, winter
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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
Posted in Articles, Italian Life, Notes from the field
Tagged Hunters, Italy, Nutters' Hill, Podere Montecucco, snow
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Oasis photography contest. NB
It’s not easy being a nature photographer in Italy or, sometimes even professing a passion for wildlife conservation, as Paul will testify. But the longevity of its premier wildlife magazine, Oasis, suggests that there is an “underground” movement that won’t … Continue reading
An Italian Christmas Carol…without too many ghosts. PHD
For all too few years of my life I was on the Christmas list of an incredible human being – a gay, Jewish, atheist New Yorker (clearly, somebody going for all the Boy Scout Badges) who, as an antidote to … Continue reading
Introducing: Leonardo Battista. PHD
It is some time since other photographers were featured on this blog me culpa, for I should have done something a long while ago and introduced Leonardo Battista, a good friend and excellent photographer from southern Italy, in fact from … Continue reading
Memories are made of this…PHD
On his last post Clay asked about the connection of our readers with nature, well I, for one, cannot imagine my life without being metaphorically ‘plugged in’ to what is around me. Through times of blissful joy and even deep … Continue reading →