Photography, share your pictures.

This is my first attempt at sharing some of my photos here, so I hope all goes well.

I originally tried to sign up to Imgur for uploading my photos, as suggested by Heather, but for some reason they are not allowing sign-ups from the UK.

I came across Flickr on my alternative company search and found that they allow 1,000 photos to be uploaded per customer on their free service plan.

So here goes……

Sophia took the photos of me with my horse “Atalanta.”

I love butterflies, so the name was chosen from the Red Admiral Butterfly - (scientific name Vanessa Atalanta). Quite appropriate I thought.

Photo #1
Vanessa with Atalanta

Photo #2
Vanessa riding Atalanta

Photo #3
Vanessa trotting with Atalanta

Photo #4
Vanessa standing with Atalanta in Forest

Photo #5
This is Sophia with her horse “Athena” (from the Greek Goddess of Wisdom). She is a very smart lady so that is definitely appropriate. (I think I will still be in her good books for saying that).
Sophia with her horse Athena

Photo #6
This is my wedding day to Sophia - 8 April 2024.

We travelled up to the Lake District by car last weekend. This is where Sophia’s parents live so we stayed with them, got married there, stayed for the week then returned home.

Vanessa and Sophia Wedding Day, Lake District, Cumbria

Sure is.  But don't I wish Cassie.

But thank you for the lovely compliment 

I am pleased the photo links appear to have worked and you can view them okay - phew!

My favourite photos to take in the New Forest are of the New Forest Ponies, reflections of the trees in the streams and misty mornings.

Below is just a small selection.....

Photo #1
Aldridgehill, New Forest

Photo#2
Bolderwood, New Forest

Photo#3
Bolderwood, New Forest

Photo#4
Broadley, New Forest

Photo#5
Denny Wood, New Forest

Beautiful photos, Vanessa. Thanks for sharing a part of your world with us.

This morning was awful weather but we spotted a fair few birds including the curlew and the godwits but as always I love it when I spot the spoonbills back from their winter homes..

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Great catch with the Spoonbill Cassie 

I have only ever seen one in the wild here, but I wasn't able to get a photo of it.  I spotted it in binoculars a long distance away anyway 

Thanks, Cassie.  I've never seen one before.

Thank you Jen.

We feel so lucky to be able to live here, and we never take the environment for granted.

Each day we go out we see something different, from the changing seasons to the changing light conditions and the movement of the various wildlife 

We are both interested in bird watching and we have a varied choice of habitat down here.  From song birds to water birds.

One such area is Stanpit Marsh Nature Reserve, Christchurch, Dorset which we have been to a few times.

I have selected a few photos from my photo archives, taken a couple of years ago, so decided to add them to my Flickr site....


Stanpit Marsh Nature Reserve

How big?

That's big enough.

www.vtherpatlas.org/herp-species-in-vermont/trachemys-scripta/


They are turtles but were sold as terrapins during the Ninja Turtle rage because of the red Stripe on their cheeks poor things grow quite large which is why people dump them into rivers and ponds.

My son turned up once that someone's house they kept exotics and in their bathroom they had a four foot long caiman crocodile!
They had bought it when it was about six inches long at a pet shop and were told that it was a mini non-growing specimen this is a perfect example of why exotics should never be sold by pet shops and only to experienced owners with cities agreements.