I've really been enjoying watching the local sailors recently, at this image was taken on a particularly windy day, when not many sailors ventured out !

Enjoyed a beautiful sunset walk in the countryside last night, which was made even more perfect by the chalk hill blue butterflies....

A beautiful sunset evening spent waiting for the butterflies to "settle" for the night.

It's that time of year again and I have been out in search of butterflies. I was quite surprised when I turned around after hearing a noise to see this lot behind me ! A bit scary as I was on my own...... but I had my tripod in case of need for defence :) 

Had a wonderful weeks break in the Loire region, staying at this beautiful gite. Not been to this area before and we were bowled over by how pretty it is. Visited a couple of vineyards and was genuinely surprised at how small Sancerre is as I was expecting it to be much bigger than it is. Images to follow....
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It's great to be back doing some portraits and this time I wanted a theme of a time traveller, for some composite work. Below are a few of my favourites (straight out of camera) and I will post the rest shortly after I have finished "playing" with them....

I love this time of year and particularly enjoy seeing all the new spring buds emerging. The hedgerows and trees were alive with birds and I stood for ages listening to this songthrush in full song, it was beautiful.