carlmckienaturephotography

                                                    Somerset coast, January 2018 A quick trip down to the Somerset coast today,a site well known for Black redstarts in the winter months,also good site for other birds-Stonechat,Wrens and robins all come quite readily to a few mealworms scattered on the rocks, or even turning over a few bits of seaweed to expose the insects hidden under it                                                                        https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/                                                ...

                                             Goldeneye ducks, January 2018 Goldeneye,Bucephala clangula, breeding plumage ,swimming on water coloured by early morning light, late winter.                                                                                                                  https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/            ...

                                                Great spotted woodpeckers A little spell with the woodpeckers recently,although I have photographed them many times and they are pretty easy to attract these days -it wasn't always that w                                                        https://www.facebook.com/carlmckie0/                                                                                                                https://www....

                                           Progress with eBook's                                                                  A site guide to Britain's orchids                                                                                                                              carlmckienaturephotography.com/ A very wet morning ,so spent it working on the E book version of my site ...

                  Red kites and the first snow of the year,Mid Wales a visit to the tower hide at Gigrin a few days ago produced a few images in snowy conditions -getting there was a little tricky,but well worth the effort                                                      www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/                                                       

                                     December 2017, woodland in winter Mixed bag of images from woodland feeding station this week,looked like it was going to snow but never really got started, maybe Sunday according to forecast,                                                    https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/birds

                                              European Eagle Owl European eagle owl(Bubo bubo),in flight,on a bright Autumn day,with a background of silver birch-as large relatively slow birds, and digital cameras with high frame rates and iso capability, shots like this are now fairly easy.Long gone are the days of film and four or five frames a second and pushing Provia film to 200, and then waiting for the film to come back and hope there was a couple of useable images!!                                                                                      ...

                                               November2017, macro day                                                             Back-lighting on Autumn leaves   After finding nothing to do one wet Wednesday afternoon,decided to play around with a bit of back light on some Autumn leaves   This brings out the detail, down to the minute viens and cell structure                                            https://www.carlmckienaturephotography.com/abstract-and-macro

                          Fungi and a wide angle lens, October 2017  Another session with the fungi over the weekend, this time on some sparsely wooded heathland, which I always find a bit hit and miss as far as fungi go-some of this being that it seems to get heavily picked as several of the more edible fungi(ceps being main prize) grow here, and a certain group of people seem to pick everything in sight and sort out the edible afterwards. Being an SSSI and with signs everywhere(in a number of languages) stating this is not allowed you would think it would stop some of this at least, but little or no notice seems to be taken.    This sight is also part of a larger park where the managing authority takes large sums of money in concessionary,and car park fees, but do not seem to put any of this into preventing large scale picking of fungi, which begs the question of what the income is used fo...

                                                                        October2017 A trip into Essex to photograph red foxes ,with the weather holding up, and a nice bright evening there where several foxes out and about feeding                                                                       ...