Walk – Burford to the Barringtons

A few pictures from a walk I did with Sparky on Saturday – a nice walk, mostly along roads, but these were quiet – Walked from Burford along the Windrush Valley to the edge of Little Barrington, then up to Great Barrington and back via the road to Little Barrington to return to Burford –…

Partial Solar Eclipse – June 2021

As so often seems to happen with celestial events, it was cloudy here today, but the clouds did break momentarily and I managed to take this photograph of the sun – not taken at the time of the maximum (for us this would have been around 20% of the sun covered), but not too long…

Bluebells in the Wychwood Forest

A photograph that was taken yesterday while walking the dog on a route that took in the edge of the Wychwood Forest (part of the Cornbury Park estate) – plenty of bluebells under the trees, but I particularly liked these dainty little white flowers along with the bluebells here, along side the path. #2021 #Cotswolds…

Cygnet on the River Windrush

A photograph that was taken while on a long circular walk from Swinbrook – part of this was along the river Windrush, where there was a swan on the river – beyond the next bend in the river was this cygnet – not far off fully grown from its size, but still showing the grey…

Orion Star Count

In the UK, The Countryside Charity (CPRE) is asking people to participate in the annual star count (Feb 6th-14th 2021) – this involves counting the stars with the naked eye within the main part of the Orion constellation to get an understanding of the level of light pollution across the country. Finally, after several nights…

Wychwood Bluebells

Taken yesterday on a dog walk through part of the Wychwood Forest not far from home – such a nice sunny day for a long walk! Technical details: Fuji X-E1; 30mm(XF18-55mmF2.8-4 R LM OIS); 1/200s@f5.6; ISO200 – handheld – post-processing in Luminar 4 and Lightroom – DSCF190620050310579

Lunar Eclipse – July 2019

I was thinking that I might not be able to see the lunar eclipse – there had been a fair amount of cloud when I went out at lunchtime.  Thankfully, while I was walking Sparky the dog, I could see that most of the eastern sky was clear!  I had seen details that the moon…

The Flying Scotsman 60103

At long last, we get to see her running on the North Cotswold line!  The last time she was due to pass through, she had a problem and was substituted at the last minute for The Royal Scot, but here she is, in all her glory! On return leg (we normally see these services on…

Summer evening walk

Here are two photographs that were taken recently on a summer evening walk with Sparky going up to the top of Shipton Down near Shipton-under-Wychwood – both are of Cow Parsley that has gone to seed with the setting sun beyond – glorious evenings indeed! The second photograph was taken with a much smaller aperture to…

Sunset

A picture at sunset from a couple of weeks ago – beautiful sky and a spurious oat stem (I think!) making a nice silhouette – and this is in a field of Soybean – this has now been harvested, so the combine harvester cut everything in the field – it is quite barren and stubbly now…