#summer #bee #bumblebee #knapweed #hardhead #insect #nectarlover One from last summer to brighten an otherwise dull day. A bumblebee on a Knapweed flower.

The stones fall silent, dreaming of a time long gone… #monochrome #classicmono #bnw #photography #Florence #PalazzoVecchio #view #windows #WindowsonWednesday #EastCoastKin

Raven in the skies. Langdon Cliffs, Dover. #kentbirding #birds

#newforest #icm #bridge #impressionistic This is the first follow up photo from the Rhinefield multi-directional, Long exposure, ICM Bridge photo emulation attempt. Although not looking like the one I'd seen after several attempts I quite liked the way this turned out.

Rain invents new gravity where falling becomes rising... #RaindropWisdom #photography #ArtInNature #nature

#newforest #bridge #stream #trees #talltrees #rhinefield This is the first of 4 photos here as a straight forward image. This is the bridge over Flechs Water which goes on to join other forest streams to become the Lymington River.

Whatever Nigel Farage might want to Reform it's certainly not the swamp of expenses fiddling, 2nd homes trading, tax avoiding, grifting, nepotistic, policy buying, peerage-for-sale corruption which pervades UK politics - he's in it up to his neck! meme via The Daily Scar

#flower The delicate yellow flower of a cucumber. These take time to start but then produce well. If lucky and live in a European country where truly fresh fruit and veg are available you might not appreciate just how delightful it is not to be forced to buy them repackaged from the supermarket.

#flower #gentian #marshgentian The rather beautiful colour of the Marsh Gentian found in a few select places in autumn.

#scotland #grantownonspey The couple on a bench. Grantown-on-Spey, Scotland. Wandering the streets of my last camping location in Scotland last year I caught this pair of locals enjoying the warmth of an overcast day.

#bee #insect #bumblebee #springisnear A female Buff-Tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris) arriving, pollen baskets already laden at a Purple Loosestrife flower to sip nectar. Not long now until spring sproings.

#trees #beechtree #treelinedavenue #kingstonlacy This road is lined with old Beech trees planted by the then owner of Kingston Lacy House William Bankes as gift to his mother and to line the toll road which would earn him money. There were 365 trees on one side of the road and 366 on the other. Why?

#birds #heron #wader Grey Heron stalking the shallows.

#birds An impromptu disagreement between two Little Egret was quite dramatic with much flapping of wings and long legged prancing.

#birds Black-headed Gull in winter plumage ready to pounce on some unsuspecting snack being in the water below.

#birds Green Plover, Peewit or Lapwing shimmering under the sun. Spectacular to watch, though impossible to photograph, in flight.

#birds A Bluetit perched in morning sunlight.

#birds It's never too late, or is it too early, for a Robin.

SPOILER the answer is NO 😁. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

#astrophotography #orion #orionnebula The Orion Nebula from a clear night on 6th January 2026.

#astrophotography #plieades Pleiades Cluster - First of the year and my last by the current method. Moving on and hopefully moving up (😂😂😂).

#birds #warbler #chiffchaff Chiffchaff high in a pine tree on Brownsea Island.

Amazing! 😍

#birds #kestrel #hawk I had been hoping for a long time to see a Kestrel close enough to actually take a photo. This day at Keyhaven this bird used this dead tree as a perch from which to hunt giving me lots of opportunities to snap away.

#birds #littleegret #wader #Ardeidae After yesterday's Grey Heron today a pretty relative, the Little Egret in fluffed up mode. I love trying to photograph these beautiful birds as that brilliant white plumage presents a challenge.

#insect #dragonfly #fourspottedchaser Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly perched on a reed.

#moon #astrophotography The eve of New Year's Eve moon over Sway.

#funfair #christmas #rides #rain #reflection #southampton Southampton near the University a square converted into a mini funfair for Christmas.

#birds #treecreeper A Tree Creeper searching for insects and grubs along the lichen covered branch of an oak tree. Sunlit is breaking through to illuminate some of the new growth.

#flowers #seed #seedpods #poppy #opiumpoppy Even after the successful completion of their purpose many plant flowers have a new life as an artistic form. This Opium Poppy seed pack is a case in point.

#flower #poppy A little brightness to enliven the gloom of those of use suffering cloudy skies 😊. The energising red of a poppy in all its glory. (I always reach for the work enervating in this situation then have to double think myself as it has the opposite meaning to energising for some reason!)

A bit of a random one. A cat with hypnotic blue eyes I met on a walk.

Noticed this pool of water under a 19 century railway bridge across the now defunct line from Brockenhurst to Ringwood. Thinking the reflection added a little something to the image, click, splash and away.

Pleiades is an Open Star Cluster within our own Galaxy, The Milky Way, about 400 Lightyears from Earth. Although over 100 stars in the cluster the brightest give it the name Seven Sisters. The wispy blue nebulae is a region of gas through which The Pleiades are currently passing. #astrophotography

A Wild Carrot or Queen Anne's Lace umbel in macro. A side on view with just the one floret actually in focus.

The aptly named Devil’s Fingers Fungus, an Australian import to the UK. This specimen battered by rain. The egg like thing is one waiting to burst free into full stinky glory as this is one of those fungi, like the Stinkhorn, that uses flies attracted to carrion to transfer spores to new locations.

This nicely illustrates the idea of a mast year i.e. when there is an abundance. Here it is apples, more specifically, crab apples, which are small, bitter, to the point where a bite feels like you've taken the skin off your teeth. All berry bushes e.g. Holly and Hawthorn are massed with fruits.

#newforest #stormclouds #rain #rainbow #countryside #wintersun #cloud At the start of my walk, now I'm allowed to drive again, yesterday the sun lit up the small rain shower resulting in a rainbow and lighting up the scene before me beautifully.

I think it can be taken as a given that only complete fucking twats would gravitate toward extreme right wing views.

Remember summer? That was when it was warm and dry and plant like this celebrated the presence in the sky of a hot ball of explosions that feed life on this planet.

A couple more from the summer as a reminder that in 3 weeks we here in the northern hemisphere will be heading back there 😂😂😂. I hope that makes you feel better. European Honey Bee (Apis melifera) selecting a Forget-me-not (Myostis sp) Flower and Large Red Damselfly (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) ☺️

My son working to get his music recognised. I know I'm biased but seriously he writes some tunes! More will appear as time passes. Hope, if you listen, you enjoy too. www.instagram.com/notanotherda...

The moon was showing before the week of rain so tried to grab it. Only using the 70-300mm lens as that is what was connected. 7 stacked shots. Oddly stacking wouldn't work at the camera image size of 6000X4000 pixels. Too much movement I guess. So tried doubling the size and it stacked perfectly!

Back to my comfort zone of flowers and insects here a double dose of both. A pair of Carder Bees on a very sunny Sunflower and hiding in the unusual petals of a Cosmos flower a small, white, Crab Spider waiting to pounce on an unwary insect

Not a new image, obviously 😊, but one I like without the astro angst 🙄. I love taking photos of bees. The intention is to try for them in flight. That is never easy but often the preparatory shots turn out quite nicely. There's something about that blue flower bottom right just sits well with me.

" half-sleep vision " acrylic, ink on paper #drawings #sketches

Réplica Nao Santa María, Bueu, Pontevedra. 10/25 #fotografía #Aesthetic #photography #b/n #galicia #streetphotography #Pontevedra #arte #country #art #b/w #bluesky #vintage #bueu #galiza #foto #photo #classic #humans #UrbanGaze #humansofBluesky #urban #monochromatic #classicmono #historia #antiguo

But today there is no day or night Today there is no dark or light Today there is no black or white Only shades of gray #ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday #ShadesOfGray #TheMonkees #Photography

Pleiades, again, at 300mm this time. Rather surprised at how well this came out. Luckily I had the cluster centred as the level of vignetting was huge. #astrophotography #pleiades

#astrophotography #pleiades #sevensisters #andromedagalaxy #m31 Cold, clear, recent nights allow night sky imaging. More data needed, to bring out detail, but lovely to realise that Pleiades is withing a nebula, new idea to me. Andromeda Galaxy on collision course is lovely. Again more detail needed