Jul 24, 2021 | Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News
Giant hogweed plants growing in Dorset – July 2021. Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) is not a native plant, having originally been introduced to Britain from Southern Russia and Georgia. This impressive umbellifer can reach over 3.5m (11.5ft) in height,...
Jul 16, 2021 | Latest Photographs
Well, it seems that I’ve become a drone owner, even though I never imagined, in a million years, that I would want one. Anyway, when out and about recently I found this giant crop circle, in north Dorset. Certainly most of the locals that I met didn’t even...
Jul 15, 2021 | Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
This is a phone photo, as I need to return to this pink poppy field to get some ‘proper’ photographs. Dorset’s pink poppy fields haven’t really been that good this year, just like the red poppy fields, which were also disappointing. In fact,...
Jun 28, 2021 | Latest Photographs, Nature
A scattering of red poppies growing in Dorset amongst pink opium poppies. July 2021. I had hoped to be able to show some photos of red poppy fields in Dorset but, sadly, there don’t seem to be as many red poppies this year – not fields of them, anyway....
Apr 20, 2021 | Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
Last year I started photographing orchids, after a chance ‘encounter’ with some pyramidal orchids [Anacamptis pyramidalis] when on a walk. At that time I was really a little too late in the season – and unprepared – to start searching for more...
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...
