Jun 23, 2020 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, Nature
2020 hasn’t been great for Dorset’s pink opium poppy fields. Well, it has in some ways, but pink poppies never flower for that long anyway, but this year it was for an even shorter amount of time. Two days of rain and wind caused the petals to start...
May 23, 2020 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
Yes, it’s Dorset red poppy field time again! The sun is shining and the poppies are starting to bloom! Luckily the lockdown has eased a bit, and so I was legitimately able to go out for a walk in the countryside, whilst keeping an eye out for some red poppies....
Apr 26, 2020 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
Beautiful and ethereal Phalaenopsis (moth orchids). Click on each photo to enlarge. At this time of year I would normally be out in an ancient wood or hillside photographing flowers. Due to the lockdown that’s not possible, of course, so I decided the flowers...
Jun 17, 2019 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News
Tonight I was recceing another photographic location, and chanced upon this gigantic red poppy field in Dorset. I haven’t ever seen such a large field of red poppies, so this was a beautiful site, almost bringing a tear to my eye. Very ‘late to the...
Jun 9, 2019 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
Red poppy field, Dorset, June 2019. Dorset red poppy fields have been very scarce this year – even more so than usual. I found this one tucked away in the north of the county. There they were, a big splash of red, rising up amongst the green stems of rapeseed...
Mar 31, 2019 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
Yesterday, I took a recce trip out to Martin Down Nature Reserve looking for the beautiful and rare pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris). Also known as the ‘anemone of Passiontide’, the pasqueflower blooms around Easter, deriving its name from the word...
