These are just a few photographs from our trip to Sherwood Forest last week – I’ve just got round to sorting them out. It’s amazing what you can see if you wait around for ten minutes on a roadside verge. Quite a lot of them were blurred, or featured the space where something interesting used to be. The bees were quite frisky in the sun, as were the Ringlet butterflies. I didn’t even manage to frame a Ringlet. They are always tricky to photograph, but I can usually get something, even if it is blurred.
Flowers are easier because they don’t move as much. Fortunately there wasn’t much of a breeze.
They aren’t the the most inspiring pictures, but they are a start. We couldn’t go to Clumber Park because you have to book now, and we couldn’t go to Arnot Hill Park because the car park always seems so full.
A very light grasshopper
I’m not sure what sort of grasshopper it is, probably a common one with funny lighting rather than a pale one. I suppose a light one would soon be eaten. It really was at that angle when I took the photo, but was down near my feet and I didn’t really frame the shot properly. I would try to turn the photo round to make it look more normal, but I can’t get the rotate button to work.
When we arrived home I noticed we had a couple of grasshoppers amongst the weeds in the front garden, but they had gone before I could get the camera.
All that travel, and I could just have stayed at home. There’s a moral in there somewhere.
I enjoyed the bees in particular though the fence at the top of the post was an excellent shot.
I had a few more fence shots but they didn’t quite work out. I will have to go back at some point.
How often I have said that to myself about a place.
Yes, and I always mean it at the time. Unfortunately my intentions are better than my execution.
Ditto.
I have a similar experience with all flying creatures.
🙂 The trials of wildlife photography…
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Indeed there is. Really nice pictures.
Thank you.
Those are beautiful photos, and restful to eye and mind. 🙂
Yes, I did feel better after taking them, even though I would have liked to have done better.