My Step Into Close Up Nature Photography Macro and close-up nature photography have interested me since getting into photography. When I'm out walking I'm always drawn to the finer details in nature. From beautiful butterflies, flitting from plant to plant to the tiny bugs congregated on ... [ Read More ]
Wildflowers On Zakynthos In February
Spring Comes Early On Zakynthos Back along I shared a photo post of our walk around Lagadakia in February. It was a very pretty walk with plenty of wildflowers en route. Having taken and shared more than enough photos from our walk in that post I thought the wildflowers of Zakynthos deserved a ... [ Read More ]
A Flashback Of Summer Photo
A Flashback Of Summer Photo This week seems to have passed in a blur. I'm not sure how or why it was just one of those weeks that I've not even looked at my camera. The card was still in my laptop from last weekend. Not wise as you never know when you may want to grab the camera for a quick photo ... [ Read More ]
Intrepid Down! Intrepid Down!
Intrepid Down! Who says island life isn't exciting? No one?... Okay. Well, in case you did imagine that living on an island was quiet and unexciting, I'm going to share with you an image that may rock your world... Or it may not. I'm part of a small, but a fun group that we named The Intrepid ... [ Read More ]
Welcome To My Web
Welcome To My Web... Said the spider to the butterfly. This scene was spotted by some fellow walkers at the start of last Sunday's walk. What I found most amazing about this scene wasn't the fact that the spider was making easy work of the butterfly, but the fact that the butterfly seemed to ... [ Read More ]
A Stunning Dawn
A Stunning Dawn Did anyone else see it? Did Saturday start with a stunning dawn where you were? I was sat drinking my coffee, trying to fool the dogs into thinking we weren't going for a walk just yet... Does anyone else do that too? If our dogs so much as get a whiff of a walk they start ... [ Read More ]
Fairy Dining Room
Fairy Dining Room A couple of weeks ago Zakynthos was hit by a mini-cyclone and this week we've had a bit of a bone rattler of an earthquake. The earthquake caught us by surprise (as they do) and has meant I didn't get to do some of the things I planned. Getting out and about with the camera for ... [ Read More ]
ET’s Distant Cousin
ET's Distant Cousin At the moment one of my 'must do' tasks is to go through my camera SD card and either delete or save photos. You know what it's like? Too many photos taken and not enough time to sort through them. I did go through a stage of transferring photos to sort into desktop folders, ... [ Read More ]
Days Are Shortening
Days Are Shortening That's a bit of an obvious statement really considering the time of year. All summer I've managed to take the dogs for weekend walks. I don't usually work Saturday and Sunday mornings and if I do it's only later. Which has made it perfect for walking the dogs and avoiding the ... [ Read More ]
A Jolly Green Grasshopper
A Jolly Green Grasshopper I know it's a bit of a daft title, but my whilst trying to come up with a post title my mind went from the Jolly Green Giant to a Jolly Green Grasshopper( everyone knows who the Jolly Green Giant is, right?). So Jolly Green Grasshopper it was! Not that I would know what a ... [ Read More ]
Mighty Oleander Hawk Moth
Mighty Oleander Hawk Moth Moths are up there with spiders and locusts when it comes to my unease of them. My fear of spiders is totally irrational, but it's something that if I focus (and don't turn my back on it) I can overcome. My unease around moths, locusts and grasshoppers stems from their ... [ Read More ]
Little Green Bug
Little Green Bug Shield bugs have to be one of the cutest bugs around, don't you think? Some are quite green, almost fluorescent in colour and some are quite brown and dull. I'm not sure what determines the intensity of their colour. Maybe it's a gender thing like we see in other creatures or maybe ... [ Read More ]
Blood Moon
Blood Moon I know the internet has been flooded with photos of the blood moon that happened on Friday night, but I couldn't, not share mine too. Last Friday evening I'd met up with friends for a quiet meal to mark a birthday. As we were leaving the restaurant the lunar eclipse was ... [ Read More ]
Busy Bees
Busy Bees So I've made a new deal with the dogs. I'd originally promised them that their weekend walks in the hills would be a camera-free affair, no stopping and waiting whilst I fiddle and fart arse around with settings. It seems it was a promise I couldn't keep. Not when there is so much to ... [ Read More ]
Early Morning Light
Early Morning Light I love everything about mornings. The peace and quiet, broken only by the sound of the birds greeting a new day. There's also a feeling that I get that I don't get at any other time of day. It's very similar to the feeling I used to get when doing night feeds when the children ... [ Read More ]
Night Happening
Night Happening Okay, this Sunday photo may not be to everyone's liking, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't grab my camera on spying this in the garden this morning. Yesterday evening when I was watering the garden this shed skin wasn't there. I'm sure I would have noticed if it had been. This ... [ Read More ]
Leaf Eating Wasp
Leaf Eating Wasp Last Sunday I had these Sunday photos all ready to use. And then life got in the way (in a good way) of me writing the post. What it has meant though is that this week I've not had to think too much about My Sunday Photo! Yay! It's been too hot and to busy to think too hard, so ... [ Read More ]
Pear Blossom
Pear Blossom When I don't have time to look through photos I've taken I transfer them to a folder on my desktop to go through later. Having been a bit short of time recently I seem to have accumulated several folders all saying 'to be sorted'. I do like to go through photos to see what has worked ... [ Read More ]
True Blue
True Blue I've been sat here for I don't know how long trying to come up with a suitable title for this photo. Sometimes titles just come to mind in a flash and at others they just elude. Or is that just me? Last Sunday the Zakynthos Walking Group met up for the last walk of the 'winter'. It was ... [ Read More ]
Colour Popping Flowers & A Photo Bombing Dog
Colour Popping Flowers & A Photo Bombing Dog This is the time of year when flowers are at their best over here, everything is in the manic growing phase that happens just before the heat of summer really kicks in and everything stops or dies. Not having green fingers our garden is rather ... [ Read More ]
Hiking In The Peloponnese Part 3 & A Trip To Nafplio
Hiking In The Peloponnese The funniest thing happened... This post initially went out unfinished, due to scatterbrain here scheduling it and not having time to finish it. All sorted now though. This is the third and final part of my hiking in the Peloponnese posts... "Yay!" I hear you cry. "How ... [ Read More ]