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 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,...
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...
Nov 26, 2020 | Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News
6 months after the Wareham Forest fire of May 2020, the ground is still blackened and scarred. Many trees and bushes were badly singed, or completely burned – many won’t recover. Wildlife was caught up in the fire too, and critical habitats destroyed....
Sep 27, 2020 | Latest Photographs, M35 Photography News
The sun rising over ‘In Memoriam’, an art installation at Sandbanks, Poole, by artist Luke Jerram. Comprising a giant sea of flags made from 100 bedsheets, the installation symbolically reflects those who have passed away from COVID-19. Arranged in the...
