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...
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...
Jun 26, 2018 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
For the last four years I’ve been photographing Dorset’s pink poppy fields – Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy. However, since the summer of 2017 there had been quite a bit of speculation, on the web, as to whether Dorset’s opium poppies...
Jun 9, 2018 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, Nature
I spotted this gorgeous sea of red poppies tucked away in a Berkshire valley, accessible only on foot. In fact, I’d given up on finding any red poppies this year, and it was quite by chance that I saw these. From afar they looked like a sea of blood cascading...
