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June 2017
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Photographers Resource |
ISSN 2399-6706 |
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Issue No: 161 |
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I cannot believe it is June already, half of 2017
has already gone by. Being the start of our summer it is now the time to make
the most of the good weather and the vast number of activities and events taking
place around the country. You have everything from country shows, kite
festivals, heritage events such as steam rallies and jousting, to music
festivals such as Glastonbury and many events that involve animals, water, land
and air. Take a look at our diary for something to inspire you. |
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On the wildlife front there are so many
opportunities with the number of garden birds increased by this years new
offspring, so no need to leave your backyard if you don't want to, through to
those seen and heard in woodlands and some islands around our coast there are
the breeding grounds of
Puffins.
This time of year they are busy going out to
sea to catch sand eels and returning to their burrows to feed their newborn's.
How to photograph puffins
was put together after we made a visit to
Skomer Island,
 off the Pembrokeshire
coast in South Wales, it has loads of information on how to prepare for your
visit, how best to photograph them as well as loads of photos that were taken on
the visit. |
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Ponds are also busy places, take a look in
the pond at your local park and you will come across not only ducks,
moorhens and coots travelling in tandem with their new chicks, but you may
also see
swans
nesting or gracefully moving through the water with this years new
cygnets. Flying nearby will be Dragonflies and Damselflies, they move so
fast it's a challenge to catch them, be patient find a leaf nearby and
quietly wait and at least one will take a rest, or even two if they are
feeling a bit amorous. In our garden pond we have many tadpoles in
different stages of their life cycle and loads of small water based
snails.
Macro Photography
is good for catching close-ups of the smaller wildlife. A couple of years
ago, although we live in a town, we had some baby fox cubs who decided to
make our back garden home for a few weeks. This year we've only had a
couple of adult foxes visiting who have been using our small compost heap
as a nice warm bed to take a nap in the daytime.
Nature is full of surprises and my garden is
now full of colour with roses, lilies, rhododendrons and more.
Driving past some local woodlands I have smelt the wild garlic and seen
the woodland floor covered in white. If you get a chance to wander the
cliff tops on our coast then you will encounter Sea Pinks and Sea Campions,
amongst others. |
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A Cotswold Garden
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Gardens are a great source for nature and
wildlife subjects, whether it's your own or a visit to the many that are
open to the public.
Garden Photography
is
something I really enjoy and as well as visiting my garden as it changes,
I also like driving around the Cotswold villages nearby and capturing
other gardens and flowers. Houses open to the public offer different
perspectives from the grandeur of
Blenheim Palace,
Oxfordshire with its statues, structures, and water features to
the smaller, practical and intimate gardens of Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk.
Many of the houses open to the public by the National Trust, English
Heritage or privately through the Historic Houses Association have garden
spaces, you can wander and capture some colourful plant life. There are
also some individuals who open up their gardens, for some weekends during
the summer, through the National Gardens Scheme, to show off their
displays and at the same time raise money for a good cause. Our
Gardens Section
has lots of helpful articles, lists of places to visit and more. |
Finally so far this year we haven't been
able to get out and about as much as we would like, life has been getting
in the way. But this month we did manage to get a two day break in
Scotland. The first day was five and half hours travelling from our home
to Glasgow. That evening we saw a show in the Royal Concert Hall in the
City Centre. The next day on the way home we stopped off at the UNESCO
New Lanark
Cotton Mill Village,
World Heritage site, and also saw and photographed the bottom waterfall of
three of the
Falls
of Clyde Wildlife Reserve,
the closest to the village. |
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Robert Owens House within the
New Lanark Village.
He was a moderniser and believed if you treated your workforce good
you would prosper and so would they!
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What's New and Changed |
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Articles and Location Guides Updated
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New Lanark
Cotton Mill Village, Lanarkshire
Falls
of Clyde Wildlife Reserve, New Lanark, Lanarkshire
Garden Photography
Blenheim Palace,
Oxfordshire 
Types and Styles of Gardens -
There are many different types and styles of gardens and many of them are
included within the various ones listed in our indexes. This gives a list of the
different ones and explains some of the more popular.
Gardens Open to the
Public - Taking a look at those gardens which open to the public to raise
money for charity.
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We are continuing to upgrade this
website
It is taking
us a lot longer than we expected, but in the background we are still continuing to move from
this Microsoft
based website to something much newer and more flexible, run on our Apple
systems. Our Windows computer is often difficult to start and should it
fail, before the new system is live, we will allow a gap of a month or two
to occur rather than waste time setting up outdated systems. So if we go missing please check back regularly as we
will be back.
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