Tag: spring

After last week’s spring photos of Rufford Abbey, I thought I’d post a couple more to brighten up the blog. Photography is one of those creative things I do when I need a break from writing. It makes a nice change to be able to simply take a photo, make a couple of tweaks and call it done – rather than endlessly redrafting a piece of writing, never being entirely sure it’s ‘done’ until it sells (and even then seeing improvements to be made every time you look at it).

Credit for the teasels beside the water goes to my partner, Ash – I just cropped the original and tidied it up in Photoshop. As for the swan – I’m assuming it was a male, and it has to have been the biggest swan I’ve ever seen. It’s not clear from the photo, when you can’t compare it to the others in the vicinity, but it had a really huge head and a neck thicker than my wrist. Not the elegance you usually associate with swans!

We’re having some absolutely glorious weather here at the moment, so I’ve been trying to spend a bit less time at the computer and more outside. As ever, being outside usually means having my camera with me, so here are a couple of photos from today’s jaunt to Rufford Abbey, just outside Nottingham.

I still can’t quite believe we’re still in March – the temperatures here now are what we usually get in the summer (i.e. pleasantly warm, but not really very hot). Still, all this sunshine makes some lovely photo opportunities, and a great start to my favourite season!

I’ve also just noticed that this is my 200th post, so a couple of photos of the great outdoors seem like a good way to celebrate!