PhotographicRuss
@rus5.bsky.social
Keen photographer of wildlife, especially birds, landscape and recently astrophotography has become a passion
#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.
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 #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.
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.
#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
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
#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
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
#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.
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
#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.
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.
#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.
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
#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.
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.
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
#tree #silverbirch #autumn #autumncolour #ladyofthewoods
November 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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
#tree #silverbirch #autumn #autumncolour #ladyofthewoods
#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.
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
#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.
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.
#flowers #macrophotography
A couple more macro shots of a tiny, purple, Vetch (Pea Family) and the feathery stigma of a deep purple Tulip.
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
#flowers #macrophotography
A couple more macro shots of a tiny, purple, Vetch (Pea Family) and the feathery stigma of a deep purple Tulip.
A couple more macro shots of a tiny, purple, Vetch (Pea Family) and the feathery stigma of a deep purple Tulip.
#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 😳
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
#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 😳
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 😳
#flowers #rain #flowersafterrain #rainonflowers #raindrops
More rainy day images if a Kaffir Lily Cosmos flower
More rainy day images if a Kaffir Lily Cosmos flower
October 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#flowers #rain #flowersafterrain #rainonflowers #raindrops
More rainy day images if a Kaffir Lily Cosmos flower
More rainy day images if a Kaffir Lily Cosmos flower
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
#flowers #raindropsonflowers #flowersafterrain
October 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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
#flowers #raindropsonflowers #flowersafterrain
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
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.
These are the two. I'd be interested in your thoughts, especially on brightness before I try posting. See those green trunks! I'm trying to work out why but rather like the effect.
October 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
These are the two. I'd be interested in your thoughts, especially on brightness before I try posting. See those green trunks! I'm trying to work out why but rather like the effect.
#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.
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
#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.
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.
#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.
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
#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.
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.
#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.
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
#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.
A Shield Bug on a pink flower and covered in rain drops. I saw this, fortuitously, while photographing flowers. What a pretty find.
I thought that might be the case as I had had a similar experience last year with a small piece of bark:
October 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I thought that might be the case as I had had a similar experience last year with a small piece of bark:
#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
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
#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
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
#fungi
This first on I have absolutely no ideas and I have never seen one like it before. The second is I think Honey Fungus again doing a fine job of killing this Birch Tree and the last is a small group of Russulas, this one is easy for me to remember 😂 though not all Russulas are red 😊.
This first on I have absolutely no ideas and I have never seen one like it before. The second is I think Honey Fungus again doing a fine job of killing this Birch Tree and the last is a small group of Russulas, this one is easy for me to remember 😂 though not all Russulas are red 😊.
October 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
#fungi
This first on I have absolutely no ideas and I have never seen one like it before. The second is I think Honey Fungus again doing a fine job of killing this Birch Tree and the last is a small group of Russulas, this one is easy for me to remember 😂 though not all Russulas are red 😊.
This first on I have absolutely no ideas and I have never seen one like it before. The second is I think Honey Fungus again doing a fine job of killing this Birch Tree and the last is a small group of Russulas, this one is easy for me to remember 😂 though not all Russulas are red 😊.
The first is a Panther Cap, second Honey Fungus and third Fly Agaric. Of these to my knowledge the only edible one would be Honey Fungus, assuming my ID is correct. This is one of those mushrooms you probably wouldn't want in your garden though as it attacks and kills living trees.
Please correct me
Please correct me
October 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The first is a Panther Cap, second Honey Fungus and third Fly Agaric. Of these to my knowledge the only edible one would be Honey Fungus, assuming my ID is correct. This is one of those mushrooms you probably wouldn't want in your garden though as it attacks and kills living trees.
Please correct me
Please correct me
#fungi #flyagaric #psychotropicmushroom
Likely to be the first in a series of shroom posts. This is a year of great abundance. I don't know why. I was expecting scarcity after the long, dry, summer period, but no. Walking in broadleaved woods today and it was difficult to avoid stepping on them.
Likely to be the first in a series of shroom posts. This is a year of great abundance. I don't know why. I was expecting scarcity after the long, dry, summer period, but no. Walking in broadleaved woods today and it was difficult to avoid stepping on them.
October 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
#fungi #flyagaric #psychotropicmushroom
Likely to be the first in a series of shroom posts. This is a year of great abundance. I don't know why. I was expecting scarcity after the long, dry, summer period, but no. Walking in broadleaved woods today and it was difficult to avoid stepping on them.
Likely to be the first in a series of shroom posts. This is a year of great abundance. I don't know why. I was expecting scarcity after the long, dry, summer period, but no. Walking in broadleaved woods today and it was difficult to avoid stepping on them.
I got lucky on the 7th, after a cloudy start the skies cleared enough for me to capture a few Full Harvest Moon shots through the trees bordering the field in front of the house. This is a 3 image composite stacked in Lightroom with some enhancement.
October 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I got lucky on the 7th, after a cloudy start the skies cleared enough for me to capture a few Full Harvest Moon shots through the trees bordering the field in front of the house. This is a 3 image composite stacked in Lightroom with some enhancement.
#birds #black-headedgull #seabirds #keyhavenharbour
Three images of Blac-headed Gulls in winter plumage, i.e. sans black (well brown) head dancing above the water at Keyhaven Harbour. It's the angles that the wings make that delights me as these birds descend on whatever has caught their interest.
Three images of Blac-headed Gulls in winter plumage, i.e. sans black (well brown) head dancing above the water at Keyhaven Harbour. It's the angles that the wings make that delights me as these birds descend on whatever has caught their interest.
October 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
#birds #black-headedgull #seabirds #keyhavenharbour
Three images of Blac-headed Gulls in winter plumage, i.e. sans black (well brown) head dancing above the water at Keyhaven Harbour. It's the angles that the wings make that delights me as these birds descend on whatever has caught their interest.
Three images of Blac-headed Gulls in winter plumage, i.e. sans black (well brown) head dancing above the water at Keyhaven Harbour. It's the angles that the wings make that delights me as these birds descend on whatever has caught their interest.
#birds #egret #littleegret #successstory
Little Egrets, now common around the coasts and inland waterways of the UK a success story from the last 20 years.
I've been trying, unsuccessfully for some time to get this kind of spread wing image. It all came together today so very pleased.
Little Egrets, now common around the coasts and inland waterways of the UK a success story from the last 20 years.
I've been trying, unsuccessfully for some time to get this kind of spread wing image. It all came together today so very pleased.
October 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
#birds #egret #littleegret #successstory
Little Egrets, now common around the coasts and inland waterways of the UK a success story from the last 20 years.
I've been trying, unsuccessfully for some time to get this kind of spread wing image. It all came together today so very pleased.
Little Egrets, now common around the coasts and inland waterways of the UK a success story from the last 20 years.
I've been trying, unsuccessfully for some time to get this kind of spread wing image. It all came together today so very pleased.
#birds #kestrel #flight
Yesterday defeated the gloomy predictions of the weather forecast allowing my to enjoy time at the coast photographing birds like this Kestrel, a first for me although I've been hoping to photograph one of these delightful Windhovers for a long time. Next when hovering ☺️!
Yesterday defeated the gloomy predictions of the weather forecast allowing my to enjoy time at the coast photographing birds like this Kestrel, a first for me although I've been hoping to photograph one of these delightful Windhovers for a long time. Next when hovering ☺️!
October 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Plants and flowers love to have their photo taken after rain. It always adds a little something (usually water) to the images. Trailing Oregano flowers. This used to be in a border but never did well. Put into a pot and it really shows it's beauty lounging over the side and smells delicious too.
October 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Plants and flowers love to have their photo taken after rain. It always adds a little something (usually water) to the images. Trailing Oregano flowers. This used to be in a border but never did well. Put into a pot and it really shows it's beauty lounging over the side and smells delicious too.