I spent ages trying to get a decent portrait of these delicate little creatures when we were in France, they were everywhere… I love Hummingbird Moths – we have a few in Bavaria too, but I have yet to manage to capture one perfectly. As you can see from my attempts below, the results weren’t […]
Photography
Meeting Henry… (a trip to Hampton Court Palace)
A confession. Once upon a time, we lived just across a park and around the corner from a Palace. Not just any old Palace, but Hampton Court Palace. A Palace that I have never (up until now) been inside… A bit shameful really, considering we lived in that area for almost 15 years. Thankfully […]
Sunday Photo – Biber
No, not Justin… A Bayerisch Biber
A Circus Life… (Giffords Circus Review – UK)
To run away and join the Circus… The dream of so many, young and old. To get away from the desk job, the drudgery, the dog house… And if I ever had to consider running away to join them (if I wanted to of course) where would I go, and what would I be? Well […]
Old Haunts (Visiting Avebury Ring)
Many moons ago, when I was a small wee thing, we used to love visiting Avebury Ring, and went regularly enough for it to imprint itself on my brain as something of a special place… When I was a slightly larger (probably rather difficult) teenager, I used to also visit regularly, to get away from […]