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Naturalife Magazine Numero 3. PHD

Posted on December 31, 2012 by paulhd

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 →

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Missing those Mantids. PHD

Posted on October 16, 2012 by paulhd

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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Orchid Tales – The Marsh Helleborine (Epipactis palustris) PHD

Posted on July 10, 2012 by paulhd

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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A love of the Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium calceolus)

Posted on June 4, 2012 by paulhd

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 →

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The future is with us: The Photographer’s i magazine. PHD

Posted on November 25, 2011 by paulhd

A revolution is in the air…well, on the aether anyway. The future is here and it is called the Photographers-i magazine. To put it bluntly, most photo-magazines are going to have to get their rear ends into gear. They are … Continue reading →

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Autumnal pauses for thought. PHD

Posted on November 16, 2011 by paulhd

For the past few years I have largely utilized two photographic approaches in my close-up work employing lenses at the extreme ends of the focal length  range. On the one hand there is the  capacity of a long-focus macro (the … Continue reading →

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Mantis Moments .PHD

Posted on October 12, 2011 by paulhd

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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The two-tailed Pasha: ode to a rather special butterfly. PHD

Posted on August 27, 2011 by paulhd

Clay brought up the joys of watching butterflies emerge… so I thought that I would write of how I have happily ‘wasted’ time over the past fortnight with not a micro-pang of guilt. In this ‘work’ I have taken a … Continue reading →

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Ant-Lions: The Myrmeleontidae .PHD

Posted on July 21, 2011 by paulhd

Palpares libelluloides – largest of the European ant-lions Even where the grass is brown and dried and thistle relatives the dominant flowers, you will discover a rich array of insects from early morning to the last rays of the setting … Continue reading →

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Combining techniques: stacking and white backgrounds. PHD

Posted on May 25, 2011 by paulhd

As one of life’s perennially contrary creatures, I have never tended to espouse novelty of any sort simply for the sake of it: usually the opposite. When classmates were listening to the Beatles, I was into the Pretty Things, Them…and … Continue reading →

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