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Cuckmere Haven Milky Way

It took exactly six visits to get this photograph. I very nearly gave up after visit number five, but I'm so glad [...]

With yet another long and extreme heatwave possibly on the horizon, it doesn't look as if I'm going to get out with the camera [...]

I seem to have missed an entire visit to Stodmarsh nature reserve. There was a memorable trip in mid-September last year when [...]

Every time I promise myself that I won't write any more about green tiger beetles, I see another side to them which I simply [...]

Having blogged about the stunning reflection pool I hired a few months ago, I realised a while later that I forgot [...]

We had a very late night out the other week. Having found an almost perfect subject to photograph with the Milky Way [...]

These two images were taken while I was at Elmley nature reserve on 14th March this year. It had been an otherwise fruitless day [...]

I've had a few fruitless days at Elmley earlier this year. On one occasion, the only thing I managed to photograph [...]

In all the years that I've been photographing butterflies, it's hard to believe that I never caught up with an orange tip {...}

You win some. You lose some. Having had such an incredible day at the end of last month, I'm back in the doldrums again [...]

As I said in my previous blog post, having just had so much luck with the bittern, I didn't want to push that too far [...]

Having photographed so little through the winter, it seems strange that I had such an amazing day last month, that I have to split [...]

This seems an odd title for a blog post, seeing as we are barely into Spring, but I wanted to share some photographs [...]

I first wrote about these incredible beetles back in May last year, when I discovered a small colony not far from [...]

With no owls to photograph at all last winter, my long lens remained in its box in the study for weeks on end. I made a couple of trips [...]

I had intended to write a longer blog post at the end of this month, but seeing as I managed to break one of my ribs [...]