I took a gamble on some Noctilucents reappearing last night with a 40 minute drive out to the coast, and then a 20 minute walk to find a clear view of the Northern horizon. There is never any guarantee the clouds will show up, but I have read many reports that the summer solstice brings more activity. I'm not really...

Luckily it was too warm to sleep last night, as I'm not sure I would have made the effort to go see these storms otherwise. These are distant thunderstorms near Lille in France. That's at least 150 miles to my South East, so I'm quite amazed the skies were clear enough to capture some distant lightning. I was...

Last night (June 9th), at around 11pm, I had my first sighting of the elusive Noctilucent clouds for 2026. Not the brightest or longest display, though I'll happily take it. I'm not sure I have the motivation for the ~02:30 displays, but we'll see how that goes.

A very enjoyable day spent dodging the rain and shooting the drifting action from the Gassed on Track event at Silverstone. This is part three (of three), part one images can be viewed here and part two, here. Images shot with OM1-II, 40-150 f/2.8 & MC-14.

A very enjoyable day spent dodging the rain and shooting the drifting action from the Gassed on Track event at Silverstone. This is part two (of three), part one images can be viewed on this post Images shot with OM1-II, 40-150 f/2.8 & MC-14.

A very enjoyable day spent dodging the rain and shooting the drifting action from the Gassed on Track event at Silverstone. Images shot with OM1-II, 40-150 f/2.8 & MC-14.

Just as I was heading home I found this young ball of fluff happily sleeping on a branch out in the open, seemingly without a care in the world. It was content to sit here for a good five minutes or so before it was inevitably disturbed (not by me!) and our photoshoot was over. Just a bit more telephoto reach would...

Today I captured A Sailor Beetle, A Four-spotted Plant Bug(?) and A Yellow Dung Fly. These aren't macro images, I don't actually own a macro lens, but my 40-150mm lets me get reasonably close. It was a little tricky to get these in focus, what with them being so small, and a persistent breeze to battle with. I did...

This is probably just an oversight on my part, but for anybody who may not have noticed when using the Bear editor to upload images, they are converted and resized to the webp format. There appears to be some loss of quality and image resizing going on, which I completely understand why this occurs, but I wasn't...

I spent a good two-three hours wandering around the local reservoir with my daughter this afternoon and I think she may have become my wildlife lucky charm. She helped me spot a greater variety of wildlife than I'd seen on my last few solo visits, and she really loves to add more birds to her own lifetime...

I've never appreciated 21c and a North Sea breeze more than I did this morning. After the last few days of excessive heat and humidity, getting to sit outside with a cup of tea at 8am and being able to blink without sweating was perfectly serene. I'll suffer the heat and humidity if it brings a decent storm, but...