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PhotographicRuss
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Keen photographer of wildlife, especially birds, landscape and recently astrophotography has become a passion
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" half-sleep vision "
acrylic, ink on paper #drawings #sketches
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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But today there is no day or night
Today there is no dark or light
Today there is no black or white
Only shades of gray

#ClassicMono #EastCoastKin #MacroMonday #ShadesOfGray #TheMonkees #Photography
October 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Pleiades, again, at 300mm this time. Rather surprised at how well this came out. Luckily I had the cluster centred as the level of vignetting was huge.
#astrophotography #pleiades
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
#astrophotography #pleiades #sevensisters #andromedagalaxy #m31
Cold, clear, recent nights allow night sky imaging. More data needed, to bring out detail, but lovely to realise that Pleiades is withing a nebula, new idea to me. Andromeda Galaxy on collision course is lovely. Again more detail needed
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
#newforest #autumn #autumnalforest #bridge
Went out over the weekend and was lucky, sun was shining lighting up the last days of autumn. Since then heavy rain and wind has stripped much of the beech tree glory. Attached are three views of a bridge in the New Forest.
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
#newforest #countryside
Three different views of the New Forest UK 1) autumnal colours in a Beech/Oak Copse 2) the long, road along which far too many drivers use unsuitable speeds considering that wildlife cross them, often with no warning and 3) a path through stands of Silver Birch after rain
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#deer #deerherd #forest #forestanimals #paththroughtheforest #autumn #autumnalforest
Walking through the woods admiring and photographing the autumnal nature of the place over the weekend when first one Fallow Deer crossed the path, and once you see one you know there will be more, 6 at least.
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#pony #shetland #shetlandpony
One scruffy looking New Forest 'Stumpy' a Shetland I assume. Quite often you can come across a small herd of this breed together. Other times, like here, an individual attaches itself to a family group of full size New Forest Ponies.
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The Lady of the Woods the very beautiful Silver Birch here standing proudly, alone, on a Bracken covered slope with the sun falling directly on her. Leaves glowing yellow in autumnal splendour.
#tree #silverbirch #autumn #autumncolour #ladyofthewoods
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
#newforest #autumn #autumninthetrees #theforestinautumn
The sun shines through the autumnal Beech trees of one of the New Forest UK enclosures the wide path winds away and people play among the fallen leaves.
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
#flowers #macrophotography
A couple more macro shots of a tiny, purple, Vetch (Pea Family) and the feathery stigma of a deep purple Tulip.
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
#newforest
These 4 images are designed to be stitched together to form a panoramic shot of this small area of grass and marsh between mixed woodland on the right (out of shot) and the Avon Water River on the left behind the row of trees. Bluesky doesn't like panoramas 😳
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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If you know as we do, that you're far more likely to be treated by a migrant than stood behind one in a queue - then why not attend our exciting event next month?

Migrants are NOT TO BLAME for the NHS crisis - the reasons for that sit squarely with successive govts.

Tickets:
bit.ly/MigrantsNotT...
October 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#flowers #rain #flowersafterrain #rainonflowers #raindrops
More rainy day images if a Kaffir Lily Cosmos flower
October 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A couple more post rain plants. The first is the still unopened flower spike of a Kaffir Lily. The second the purple flowers of Physostegia.
#flowers #raindropsonflowers #flowersafterrain
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This follows on from my woodland walk yesterday expecting autumnal colour in the trees but not finding it so deciding to try my hand at ICM. I do occasionally having studied it quite extensively but I am almost always disappointed in the results. These were 2 keepers out of a slew of binned images.
October 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
#flowers #flowersafterrain #waterdroplets
Continuing the wet flower theme, on the left, dressed in purple, we have a doubled Daisy. With many petals to catch the drops of water. On the right the seed head of Clematis, which look pretty anyway, but like this, glinting in the sun, quite gorgeous.
October 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
#flowersafterrain #cosmos #kaffirlily #pink #rain
After the rain overnight yesterday my camera took a walk round the garden and found many lovely things, flowers, to photograph.
Here the pale ping Kaffir Lily and the deeper colour with a yellow heart of Cosmos.
October 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
#truebug #insect #shieldbug #raindrops #pink #flower
A Shield Bug on a pink flower and covered in rain drops. I saw this, fortuitously, while photographing flowers. What a pretty find.
October 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#flowers #raggedrobin #wallflower #hoverfly
A pair of macro shots from earlier in the year on the theme of Purple. The first is one of my favourite (this is awkward really as I have so many favourites) wild flowers a lover of moist places and a 'wild' Wallflower, with Hoverfly, lover of the opposite
October 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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John O'Connell

Neo Nazi terrorists arrested before they could carry out attack on Islamic community Centre.

Jailed for 11, 10 and 8 years.

Is it on the front page of the
@DailyMail
? Has it been covered by
@GBNEWS
?

Of course not.
October 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Landscapes with wonderful reflections for the eyes.🌿🍂
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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The long, vaulted ceiling of Winchester Cathedral.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Vertical #Winchester #photography
October 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM