Category: Nature Photography
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Palm Blue
Doesn’t this palm tree just put you in mind of sunny, summer getaways…. I wonder if we will ever get back to travelling, the way we used to? What did this image teach me? There are over 2,500 different species of palm tree!
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The Deer Silhouette
This deer was trying it’s best to eat the leaves off a low hanging branch. What did this image teach me? That sometimes tricky lighting conditions can lead to good results.
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Hey, Ewe!
Here’s another sheep shot, and yet another interesting face (for a sheep, obviously). What did this image teach me? I’ve recently been through and updated how my archive of photos is stored, bringing together images from the last 15 years into a single location. This has allowed me to easily search through hundreds of thousands…
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The Beach Stick
This is a new edit of the oldest photo from my archive, taken on a Fuji S7000 (who remembers that camera – I still have mine!) back in February 2005. What did this image teach me? That I enjoyed photography, and that my “style” if I have one, around capturing a single subject per shot,…
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Sheeeeeep!
This sheep definitely has an attitude! What did this image teach me? That it’s possible to be outstared by a sheep. I mean just look at it’s eyes!
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The Light on the Leaf
The darkness of the tree on the left, contrasted with the light on the leaves towards the right, appealed to me. What did this image teach me? Sometimes all it takes is a little light on a leaf.
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The Curl of the Fern
Here’s another fern themed image, this time showing the plant in its curled up state. What did this image teach me? Last time I revealed the life cycle of the fern, this time I learned that ferns first appeared in the fossil record around 360 million years ago – which means that ferns have lived…
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Green
I have no idea what type of plant this is, but I really like the shape. What did this image teach me? Mother Nature knows how to create some beautiful shapes.
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Dark Fern
Ferns are an ancient type of plant, so old in fact that they pre-date the seed (they have spores instead). What did this image teach me? The life cycle of a fern, everybody… The life cycle of a typical fern proceeds as follows: A diploid sporophyte phase produces haploid spores by meiosis (a process of cell division which reduces…