This week I spotted an interesting piece of news on www.birdguides.com that a Purple Heron had been spotted at Frensham Little Pond in Surrey. We took a trip down there on Monday evening to see if we could spot it.
A few other people were there and I asked them if they had any joy. Sadly nobody we spoke to had seen it but knew roughly where it probably could be found, as an earlier report on the Birdguides site had stated that it had flown to the SE corner of the lake.
We returned the following night at about the same time but once again, no luck! We bumped into two other people who were keeping look-out but they hadn’t seen it either. The light was also failing badly and if we had seen it, I wouldn’t have got a single shot.
I returned the following day but this time at 8am and spent a couple of hours there but it still didn’t show up!
Wildlife photography can be hard sometimes!
My Alamy account was recently upgraded to use the new AlamyUpload system towards the end of last month. I have uploaded nearly 150 images since then and today all of them were approved including some images that were only uploaded 3 days ago. So within the next 24 hours these new images will be available for sale on Alamy, taking my image total up to nearly 1200.
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Took a trip out with my macro lens today looking for berries, ferns and various other things when I came across this Cricket.
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Rising early in the morning is often the best way to capture the essence of a location and Waverley Abbey was no exception to this rule when I visited the other day. It was a crisp and damp morning for August and a light mist was rising off the River Wey that snakes around the front of Waverley House under the bridge (shown here) and around behind the Abbey before it disappears deep into the Surrey countryside.
The abbey was originally founded in 1128 by the Bishop of Winchester and was the first Abbey in England where monks of the Cisternian order settled. I settled upon the solitary pillar of stone that you see here as my key focal point with the rest of the ruin in the background to give a sense of depth.
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My wife came up with this idea whilst we were at Tilford today. So off she went along with my step-daughter to pose in this quirky shot. Some may slap me for the burst of sunlight but I think it works, I like it, it adds a little eccentricity to the image.
