Apr 28, 2023 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
It’s bluebell season! This year I was lucky enough to chance upon several, lovely Dorset bluebell woods. In previous years, for one reason or another, I’ve missed photographing ‘bluebell season’. In terms of good photographic light, the time of...
Apr 23, 2023 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
Therfield Heath pasqueflowers 2023 doesn’t seem to be a good year for wild-growing pasqueflowers. At Therfield Heath, in Hertfordshire, compared to last year there are barely any flowers at all. That’s the thing though, a good year is often followed by a...
Mar 12, 2023 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News
Not far from Newbury, in Berkshire, is a 3-hectare meadow that hosts Britain’s largest display of wild crocuses. This is ‘Inkpen Crocus Field’, which explodes in colour each spring with an estimated 400,000 purple and white flowers. Parish records...
Aug 20, 2022 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
Gentiana pneumonanthe Rare marsh gentians (Gentiana pneumonanthe) growing on Dorset heathland. With their bright blue trumpet-shaped flowers, marsh gentians thrive in areas of wet, acid heathland or grassland. I had never seen these wonderful plants before and was...
Aug 1, 2022 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, Nature
Sarraceniaceae Wareham Forest’s carnivorous, purple pitcher plants (Sarracenia purpurea) were reported to have been introduced to the area in the 1980s (ref Kew Royal Botanic Gardens). Non-native, these exotic-looking plants are extremely invasive and have...
May 20, 2022 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
Are these the first Dorset field poppies of 2022? I was out and about today and chanced upon these Dorset red poppies, scattered amongst the pale yellow rapeseed. It was a beautiful and welcome sight and so early in the red poppy season too. I really hope to see a lot...
