31/12/10
This is it, it's all done!
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30/12/10
The penultimate shot simply had to involve something floral
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29/12/10
Another food-based flourish for one of the last few days
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28/12/10
Time to inject a bit of last minute colour
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27/12/10
A miracle! The cat actually posed for me.
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26/12/10
I suspect that this will be the last snow shot
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25/12/10
Although there was no fresh snow, I think this qualifies as a white Christmas.
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24/12/10
A white Christmas Eve, will it still be white tomorrow?
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23/12/10
A follow up shot to the 13th December
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22/12/10
A final entry for the Hazel too
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20/12/10
Time for a snowy landscape
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19/12/10
Back to a location right from the start of the year
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18/12/10
One more visit to my favourite beech trees
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16/12/10
The only shot in the project in artificial light
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15/12/10
Something for a rainy day
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14/12/10
Unidentified but photogenic
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12/12/10
This seems to be a good area for Ash trees
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11/12/10
The amazing, all year round flowering Gerbera
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10/12/10
This was supposed to be an easy shot
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09/12/10
A mystery leaf on the lawn
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08/12/10
Some locations demand to be revisited
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07/12/10
Who says dead flowers can't be attractive
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06/12/10
The weather may interfere with daily routines, but it is forgiven for such beauty
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05/12/10
This is more frost than snow
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04/12/10
Back home and a final review of the birdbath
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03/12/10
Last day in Devon, and up early for the shot of the day
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02/12/10
A return visit to RHS Rosemoor
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01/12/10
A view from a small part of the South West Coast Path
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30/11/10
Something simple to round up the month
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29/11/10
Trying to improve the quota of coastal shots
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28/11/10
So many photos to choose from today
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27/11/10
Lichen, tree branch and icy water, a great combination
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26/11/10
The frost froze some more and provided more inspiration
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25/11/10
The cold weather is providing more interesting photo opportunities
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24/11/10
An unexpected inclusion for Verbena bonariensis
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23/11/10
The bright red leaves and berries of a Cotoneaster
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22/11/10
Since I'm on a bit of a food theme
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21/11/10
I'd meant to plant them a while back
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20/11/10
First lunch, now breakfast
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19/11/10
A little early for Christmas, but...
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18/11/10
The colourful, fallen leaves of a Cotinus ‘Grace’
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17/11/10
Alternative title, "before it was lunch"
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16/11/10
Back in the home county for another foggy morning
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15/11/10
Foggy mornings transform a landscape
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14/11/10
Water doesn't feature often enough
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13/11/10
A weekend away in Lancashire
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12/11/10
No trip to the beach is complete without a few shells
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10/11/10
It's amazing the difference a few days makes
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09/11/10
Here's one I collected earlier
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08/11/10
I have a garden full of confused plants
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07/11/10
Back out to the woods again, before the storms hit
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06/11/10
The Contorted Hazel shines again
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05/11/10
Pretty little birds, defying the wind and rain
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04/11/10
An odd looking bud in abstract
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03/11/10
Another shot close to home
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02/11/10
If I can't go to the beech, the beech can come to me
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01/11/10
Keeping with the beech theme, a beach
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30/10/10
Back to the local beech trees
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29/10/10
A break from Beech and a return to the harvest theme
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28/10/10
Beech trees, a project within the project
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27/10/10
More Beech trees, different wood
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26/10/10
You know the weather's bad when I have to raid the fridge!
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25/10/10
The latest getting up for a sunrise for a while now
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24/10/10
Lovely afternoon sun and striking trees.
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23/10/10
Getting value from a previous bouquet
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22/10/10
A different look at Verbena
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21/10/10
Time for the summer bedding to go
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20/10/10
It's autumn, so it's sunset-season
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19/10/10
Narrowing it down to this shot was very difficult
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18/10/10
Another bunch I couldn't resist
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17/10/10
An opportunity too good to resist
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16/10/10
Acquired in preparation for tonight's dinner
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15/10/10
Nasturtium majus 'Whirlybird' in flower. Again.
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14/10/10
Something pale and delicate for a grey day
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13/10/10
Back to check up on the Rococo Garden squash harvest
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12/10/10
Another home grown subject
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11/10/10
Another of the Potentilla family
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10/10/10
A good, reliable plant that will provide interest through the colder months
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09/10/10
Most definitely not from a supermarket
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08/10/10
My Hazel tree decided it was time for this photograph
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07/10/10
Something calming and peaceful
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06/10/10
Something a little stark and abstract
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05/10/10
Here's one I prepared earlier
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04/10/10
The view from Coaley Peak I'd been waiting for
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03/10/10
An image resulting from staring out of the window looking for inspiration
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02/10/10
Victim to another multi-buy at the garden centre
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01/10/10
I may have gained another freebie from the garden centre
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30/09/10
Finally, some photogenic weather
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29/09/10
Something to dispose of carefully, later on
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28/09/10
Another day of tricky weather
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27/09/10
Something a little different
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26/09/10
Not the image expected from a walk in the countryside
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25/09/10
A slightly different view of a Pot Marigold
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24/09/10
I said that there would be more Violas
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23/09/10
Give me a hydrangea and I will milk its photographic potential
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22/09/10
All of a sudden I have more roses
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21/09/10
One thing I can usually find in the garden somewhere
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20/09/10
It's that time of the year again
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19/09/10
Something else that got buried under another plant
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18/09/10
Delicate little flowers to brighten up the herb border
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17/09/10
Pumpkins are made to be photographed
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16/09/10
Time to revisit a plant last photographed in January
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15/09/10
Homegrown and freshly harvested
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14/09/10
Here's one I've been saving for a while
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13/09/10
From a little seedling a sprawling plant has grown
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12/09/10
One of the things I love about late summer is that that's when the Heleniums bloom.
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11/09/10
The advantage of visiting the local garden centre is that there's then usually a nice, easy photo a day or so later.
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10/09/10
Not what I expected to pick as the day's photograph
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09/09/10
Today I have an image that's very much distinct to the location
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08/09/10
A staple grain, so an important agricultural crop, yet its visual appeal is often overlooked.
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07/09/10
Sometimes an image suggests itself
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06/09/10
It's probably just as well I hadn't planted this outside already
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05/09/10
Last, and by no means least
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04/09/10
Guess what I spent my Saturday afternoon doing?
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03/09/10
This is the start of a small collection of themed images
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02/09/10
I thought I'd managed to clear all of this out of the garden
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01/09/10
A flower portrait from a different garden
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31/08/10
This is all about the light
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30/08/10
And now for something completely different
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29/08/10
A step closer to a planned photograph
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28/08/10
After all the butterfly photographs, this was the natural next step
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27/08/10
Another one for the collection
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26/08/10
A shot grabbed between rain showers
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24/08/10
Time for something non-floral
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23/08/10
Another Sainsbury's special
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22/08/10
Here's a shot I'd been planning for a while
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21/08/10
There's a lot to be said for supermarkets
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19/08/10
Sometimes the natural background works
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18/08/10
A shot grabbed between bouts of bad weather
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17/08/10
Something else orange from the garden
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16/08/10
A splash of tiny bright blue flowers
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15/08/10
The weather dictated a retreat to the studio
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14/08/10
After the flowers and after the rain
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13/08/10
And now for an intact Large White
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12/08/10
The plant I can never remember the name of
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11/08/10
Crocosmia looking its best
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10/08/10
After a lot of false starts I finally got the shot I wanted
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09/08/10
I keep forgetting that I'm growing Marjoram
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08/08/10
Another one to tick on the butterfly list
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07/08/10
A day out at a bird of prey centre is always a nice treat
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05/08/10
I've not seen white Echinops before
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04/08/10
If you ever want to attract bees, grow this
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03/08/10
Not quite the butterfly photograph I planned
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02/08/10
Something a little more controversial today
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01/08/10
This time I managed to photograph the plant without a resident fly
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31/07/10
A late evening visit to the Rococo Garden is rewarded with beautiful light
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30/07/10
The one, and only, nut on my Contorted Hazel
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29/07/10
Another butterfly to add to the collection
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28/07/10
A particularly welcome gift
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27/07/10
Given that I promised another allium photo before the project was done
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26/07/10
Time for a smaller insect
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25/07/10
From the unusual to the most common butterfly visitor
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24/07/10
A real treat on the butterfly front
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23/07/10
A touch too dull for butterflies today
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22/07/10
Continuing with the theme of small, flying critters
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21/07/10
Back to the Rococo Garden for the first time in a few weeks
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20/07/10
Outside again and with both fauna and flora
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19/07/10
A fly on a Potentilla thurberi 'Monarch's Velvet' and an outdoors shoot for a change
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18/07/10
Still windy, still in the studio
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17/07/10
Not only are the high winds keeping me indoors, they're providing subjects too
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16/07/10
It's still wet and windy outside
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15/07/10
A return to the ever photogenic Allium 'Purple Sensation'
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14/07/10
It looks like this vase is going to be busy all summer
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13/07/10
At long last, a pansy shot that wasn't difficult to edit
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11/07/10
Encouraging more bees into the garden is a real pleasure
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10/07/10
Although they're really Antirrhinums, I shall always think of these flowers as snapdragons first
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09/07/10
First of the home-grown sweet peas
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08/07/10
Having missed a year of flowering I was curious to see what this honeysuckle would do
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07/07/10
A small wildflower meadow in the heart of the nation's capital city
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06/07/10
Pushing the boundaries of 'Nature's Beauty' at the Hampton Court Flower Show
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05/07/10
The other half of the flowers I was given a few days ago
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04/07/10
Another title for this photograph could just as easily be 'The Summer Cast'
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03/07/10
I love it when I get given flowers out of the blue
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02/07/10
Something tiny and delicate
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01/07/10
The last of the geraniums, or zonal pelargoniums, has decided to flower
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30/06/10
It's hard to believe, but I'm half way through the project
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29/06/10
Another wind defying studio shoot today
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28/06/10
Gillenia Trifoliata, Bowman's Root, in flower
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27/06/10
It's amazing the difference a sunny spell makes
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26/06/10
A topical photograph for the day
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25/06/10
The Scarlet Sage appears to be vulnerable to snails
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24/06/10
Another victory from seed
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23/06/10
Time for some more frothy flowers
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22/06/10
Product of an unusual marketing strategy
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21/06/10
Something appropriate to herald the first day of summer
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20/06/10
Back to Painswick Rococo Garden. Twice in a week.
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18/06/10
Lobelia Bush Dark Blue ‘Crystal Palace’
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17/06/10
Girl Guiding Staffordshire's show garden at Gardeners' World Live 2010 at the NEC in Birmingham
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16/06/10
I never thought I'd get to use this title for a photograph
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15/06/10
A very photogenic flower en masse
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14/06/10
A repeat visit to the Zonal Pelargonium or Geranium from last month
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13/06/10
A simple extract of a foxglove
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12/06/10
Now the other side of the wall is in flower
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11/06/10
Another instance where the plan worked out differently
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10/06/10
A rock solid shrub that defies the winds
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09/06/10
Continuing to practice bug photography
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08/06/10
One more for the wild flower portfolio
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07/06/10
I managed to escape the rain again and grab another garden image before it got too wet
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06/06/10
Now we're in June I have far more to choose from
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05/06/10
Something bright and cheerful from the garden
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04/06/10
Although this looks like a studio shot, it was taken out in the garden
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03/06/10
Back to more seasonal conditions
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02/06/10
Even more surprising was that the rain was still my friend
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01/06/10
Sometimes the rain is not so bad after all
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31/05/10
Another one of the Aquilegias is in bloom
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30/05/10
A pretty plant, with many, many flowers
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29/05/10
Forced back inside the studio for the first time in a few weeks
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28/05/10
Now 'Scarlet' (23/05/2010) has a companion called 'Ruben'
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27/05/10
It's really hard to take photographs when the subject is this cute
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26/05/10
Aquilegias are another plant I associate with late spring
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25/05/10
Same family, different member
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24/05/10
Back to the Allium hollandicum 'Purple Sensation'
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23/05/10
Time for something really bright and cheerful
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22/05/10
Now, an edible member of the allium family
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21/05/10
A classic shot from a classic garden
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20/05/10
Time for one of my favourites, it's allium season
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19/05/10
Time for a tale of another traumatised plant
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18/05/10
A wonderful morning at Westonbirt Arboretum resulted in a tough choice for the day's photo
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17/05/10
Sticking with the more abstract
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16/05/10
Continuing with a theme for the weekend
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15/05/10
A return visit to the local Bluebell woods
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14/05/10
Not the easiest plant to get at
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13/05/10
Another plant with a bit of history
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12/05/10
Another plant family I like is the allium family
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11/05/10
This is very much about the significance of bees
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10/05/10
It occurs to me that this is now as much a gardening blog as a photography blog
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09/05/10
It's amazing what you get in Christmas crackers
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08/05/10
A very interesting seed pod to photograph
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07/05/10
Not all weeds are unwelcome
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06/05/10
I covert next door's cherry tree
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04/05/10
The inclusion of English Bluebells in this project was mandatory
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03/05/10
This time the lighting was more favourable
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01/05/10
Something else I hadn't expected to find outside the back gate
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30/04/10
Sometimes you plan one photograph and end up taking something completely different instead
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29/04/10
Tulipa 'Angelique' and friends
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28/04/10
Time for a slightly different tulip
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27/04/10
Back to tulips growing in the garden
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26/04/10
Another photograph inspired by plant purchases
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25/04/10
A more traditional study of a plant
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24/04/10
A Black Swan kindly poses for a photograph
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23/04/10
The Corkscrew Hazel continues to look amazing
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22/04/10
A tulip display from someone else's garden
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21/04/10
The first of no doubt lots of my home-grown tulips
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20/04/10
Part two of stocking the garden with aubretia
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19/04/10
Spiraea 'Arguta', Bridal Wreath, flowers in spring
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17/04/10
With luck this osteospurmum should flower all through the summer
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16/04/10
The beauty of visiting flower shows is finding stunning specimens of plants
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15/04/10
Another surprise find along the back pathway
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14/04/10
Daffodils looking far from their best
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13/04/10
Time for another study of a pansy
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12/04/10
Another plant before it got planted out in the garden
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11/04/10
It's amazing what you find growing outside when you open the back gate
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10/04/10
Fungus growing on a tree in Puzzlewood in The Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
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09/04/10
Another place I'd been meaning to revisit was the Painswick Rococo Garden
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08/04/10
A little later than I'd planned, I finally managed another visit to Westonbirt Arboretum
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07/04/10
Something I happened to have in the fridge
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06/04/10
The Anenomes appear to be thriving
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05/04/10
Now the roses are opening up, it was time for a proper close up
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04/04/10
The studio was starting to get a bit crowded
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03/04/10
Another spell of bad weather kept me inside again
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02/04/10
Red Alstroemeria, Peruvian Lilies or Lilies of the Incas
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01/04/10
It's definitely feeling more like spring now
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31/03/10
A quarter of the way through and my first dedication of the project
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29/03/10
I couldn't resist a corny title for this one
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28/03/10
And now for something a little different
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27/03/10
Meanwhile, back home in my own garden
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26/03/10
When this close to the coast a visit to a beach is required
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24/03/10
A long awaited trip to The Eden Project
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23/03/10
A pleasant surprise from a bulb-type I'd never grown before
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22/03/10
Another pleasant surprise in the garden
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21/03/10
Anemone Blanda Blue is a wonderful late winter/early spring treat in the garden
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19/03/10
Another studio session featuring some familiar flowers
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18/03/10
I didn't make it a week before including a second pansy shot
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17/03/10
Poor weather forced me back inside the studio
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16/03/10
One of the pleasures of taking over a new garden is finding out what the previous owners had planted
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15/03/10
The title of this photograph comes from the bright purple onion sets, 'Red Baron'
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14/03/10
Bright sunshine and a very stiff breeze with tall reeds
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12/03/10
Finally the pansies I planted in the Autumn flowered
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11/03/10
Very much the English countryside
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10/03/10
A very staged studio shot
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09/03/10
Teasel is an amazing plant to photograph
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08/03/10
Something a little more abstract
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06/03/10
The bright light that shines in my herb bed
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05/03/10
Not quite through with snowdrop photos yet
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04/03/10
A food-stuff again, but more unusual than normal
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03/03/10
A little bonus from my visit to Westonbirt earlier in the week
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02/03/10
A photograph from Painswick not taken at the Rococo Garden
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01/03/10
Close up of catkins on a Corylus maxima Purpurea or Purple Filbert
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28/02/10
Still not quite through with the bunch of tulips
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27/02/10
Finally some bright light outside
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26/02/10
Just when I thought the tulips were beyond photographing.
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24/02/10
And then the sun came out and brought my subject to life.
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23/02/10
It's easy to take some things for granted.
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22/02/10
It was lucky that I was actually given two bunches of flowers
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21/02/10
Doodle: time for something cute and cuddly
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20/02/10
Time for one more photo of the tulips
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19/02/10
Anyone following this blog regularly might have spotted a favoured location by now
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18/02/10
Something bright and vibrant for a very murky day
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17/02/10
Here's one I grew earlier.
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16/02/10
A slightly more topical image for the day, provided you like pancakes.
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15/02/10
The best laid plans sometimes go awry when it starts to pour with rain.
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14/02/10
A Valentines' Day robin instead of a rose.
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13/02/10
Since I'm on a roll with the abstracts, here's another one.
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12/02/10
A little mystery for me with this one.
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11/02/10
Witch Hazels seem to choose their flowering time wisely as there's little else so colourful to compete in February
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10/02/10
Old trees make fascinating material
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09/02/10
A pleasant surprise on the way home
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08/02/10
'Pink Blossom' in this instance is a variety of popping corn rather than a flower.
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07/02/10
One of the cyclamen that lives in the conservatory
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06/02/10
Calluna 'Garden Girls' White in the winter
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05/02/10
More snowdrops, but this time one I've grown myself.
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04/02/10
I couldn't resist going back to Slimbridge again this week
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03/02/10
Introducing Velvet the cat
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02/02/10
Back to a subject I'd intended to photograph a couple of weeks ago.
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01/02/10
A return visit to see more of the Painswick Rococo Garden's snowdrops
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31/01/10
One month down, eleven still to go.
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30/01/10
Time for one more photo of the cardoons before they get cleared away.
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29/01/10
Time for an indoor arrangement of a macro subject
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28/01/10
A trip to Slimbridge proved to be a fun afternoon with plenty of choice for the project.
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27/01/10
Well, I think it's a shell
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26/01/10
The Painswick Rococo Garden is famous for snowdrops
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25/01/10
Another day marred by stronger winds inspired a food-based image.
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24/01/10
Callicarpa bodinieri var giraldii Profusion, the Beauty Berry, is generally grown for its amazing autumnal purple berries.
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23/01/10
The first signs that winter will soon give way to spring
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22/01/10
Back indoors again today due to very heavy rain and a desire to stay dry.
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21/01/10
A much faster melt for the snow this time
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20/01/10
The snow returned, albeit no where near as significantly as before.
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19/01/10
Bare, exposed roots of a tree in Standish Woods
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18/01/10
Alternative title: Before it was lunch
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17/01/10
First day back outside after the thaw and heavy rain
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16/01/10
Another day of unkind weather kept me indoors again
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15/01/10
The weather dictated retreating indoors for today's photo
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14/01/10
The weather's changing and this may be the last day with snow for a while
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13/01/10
And so it continued to snow
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12/01/10
I thought the snow was melting away then overnight we got another inch
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11/01/10
Another grey day with inspiration found just outside
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10/01/10
In the bleak mid-winter it was white and cloudy
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09/01/10
An interesting sunrise where the sun promptly disappeared under a cloud
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08/01/10
An unusual visitor for our garden
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07/01/10
Blue sky, sun and snow - perfect
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06/01/10
Camera and photographer wrapped up warm ventured out into the snow.
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05/01/10
The start of the white-out
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04/01/10
After the sunrise must be a sunset
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03/01/10
A beautiful winter sunrise
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02/01/10
As the cold snap starts to take hold, here's the first macro abstract of the project
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01/01/10
365: Nature's Beauty - a challenge to take one photograph per day inspired by nature
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