Apr 5, 2021 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
2021 – A beautiful and rare pasqueflower plant growing at Martin Down. Background For the last two years (2019 and 2020) I have been photographing a pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) at Martin Down, on the Hampshire/Dorset border. During that time I have only...
Apr 1, 2021 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, Nature
A solitary pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) growing on the hillside at Barnsley Warren SSSI, in Gloucestershire. This exquisite, hairy, little plant is also known as the ‘anemone of Passiontide’, because it flowers around Easter time (tomorrow will be...
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...
Apr 16, 2020 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
Following last year’s discovery of a solitary pasqueflower at Martin Down Nature Reserve, I was waiting anxiously to see if the same plant would re-appear in 2020. Well, I’m pleased to report that it has made it through to another year. There may well have...
