Sep 2, 2021 | Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News
End Of The Road Festival takes place at Larmer Tree Gardens, near Blandford in Dorset (note that the Festival address is actually in Wiltshire – SP5 5PY). The 2021 Festival was on between Thursday 2nd and Sunday 5th September. EOTR 2022 dates: Thursday 1st...
Aug 15, 2021 | Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
A couple of years ago I started taking photographs of weird and interesting trees/tree remains that I’d found in the New Forest, in Hampshire, UK. Transient in nature, some of these trees have now disappeared – casualties of inclement weather, with so much...
Aug 14, 2021 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
Dorset sunflower fields, August 2021. In the summer of 2021, these huge, yellow sunflowers appeared in four fields in Dorset. Attracting huge numbers of bees, butterflies and other insects, to see such a large expanse of Helianthus flowers in one place was wonderful....
Jul 24, 2021 | Flower Photography, Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News, Nature
Giant hogweed 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, with...
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 | Flower Photography, 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,...