Tuesday 12th April 2016, 11.10am (day 1,692)
Now there’s an animal that knew how to perform for the camera. It even did it twice, after I didn’t quite get the shot the first time round.
Playful
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Category Archives: Flora/Fauna
Intruder
Thursday 7th April 2016, 11.15am (day 1,687)
Another one of those days spent entirely working at home, with grey light, that will eventually do for this blog — one day I will get to the end and realise that there has simply been nothing to photograph. Still, despite some temptation to the contrary since the turn of the year, I remain here. Hope it doesn’t seem too desperate to stick a woodlouse on here — it’s not even that sharp a shot, because this kid could move, believe me. Usain Bolt standard, in relative terms.
New growth
Monday 4th April 2016, 5.55pm (day 1,684)
I went back to work today after 10 days off, not that this gave me any particularly new horizons photography-wise. Into the garden it is, then. All the plants that were deposited in the soil after being acquired from Barton Grange (and its urinals) two weeks ago seem to have sprouted, so that’s worth recording, if unexciting.
View over to Heptonstall
Sunday 27th March 2016, 12.40pm (day 1,676)
Easter Sunday, and my entry in the Cheesy Chocolate Box cover shot, 2016. The horses know.
Robin Redbreast
Sunday 13th March 2016, 11.55am (day 1,662)
Anybody who lives anywhere near me will know that we enjoyed a perfect spring day today — the sort where all of nature comes out to frolic. Look at the glint in this robin’s eye.
Winter flowering heather
Tuesday 8th March 2016, 4.05pm (day 1,657)
After the beauty and interest and light of yesterday, today was a very dull day in all respects. Lucky this bush has bloomed in the garden to give the otherwise drab day some colour. If I was gardener enough, I would say I planted it deliberately in order to play this role every March, but nothing in the garden has been done with that much forethought, I can assure you.
Seagulls at MediaCityUK
Tuesday 23rd February 2016, 12.05pm (day 1,643)
MediaCityUK is something like the biggest TV production facility in the UK, or is it Europe, and the biggest property development in the North-West of England, or is it the whole of the UK. Either way, during my visit there today I decided the best photo I got was this one of the local wildlife.
Heron, Hebden Water
Wednesday 17th February 2016, 9.45am (day 1,637)
It could be sharper and it ain’t gonna win any wildlife photography contests, but I’m glad this baby was fishing in the river this morning when I went shopping down in the town, because otherwise I was home all day working and there was nothing to see…. But herons are always good for a shot. Handsome creatures. That neck-spring-and-dagger-beak combination must be a fish’s worst nightmare.
A new chilli
Tuesday 9th February 2016, 12.20pm (day 1,629)
Most of 2016 so far has been two things — firstly, lacking in any light (so few sunny days…), and second, very housebound, which this picture in its way is intended to represent. However, the latter limitation, at least, is about to change, with it being quite feasible that over the next four weeks only three pictures will have to be taken in Hebden Bridge. The weather…. well, I can be less sure about that.
Rochdale Canal at Callis Wood lock
Friday 22nd January 2016, 4.15pm (day 1,611)
Part of the reason I have felt uninspired lately is that I’ve been spending too many days at home, not going out. Also that the light has been very poor — I swear we’ve had half a dozen sunny days at most since the start of November. But both of those things changed for the better this very pleasant afternoon when I managed a stroll along the canal bank. Much of the towpath is still closed because of flood damage but this section, at the Callis Wood bottom lock, is still open.
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