Pete's Blog

Wheat growing on a path near the Worskop canal. I took a variety of shots on my evening walk tonight and had difficulty choosing between a dead floating water rat, surrounded by McDonalds wrappers and containers, a low shot of my shoes.

Raindrops on the poppy petals today. I'll soon have exhausted the poppy patch by which time the petals will have all fallen off. Next I'm looking forward to a shot of the skeleton poppy head. That's a few weeks away.

Continuing my theme of poppy photos while I have them in the garden, this is of the bulb before it explodes into a large and colourful poppy. I included the other stalks in to balance the right side. It's part of my photo365 project.

A poppy head shot with the iphone hipstamatic

This is my small patch of poppies I've been photographing in the garden in previous blogs posts. They're now all coming to flower. I photographed this lot this morning.

I cycled round Clumber Park this afternoon a 30km route, and on the way stopped off at one of my favourite woodland scenes to take this. The reel has been there for about five years and is starting to rot away nicely. It's surrounded by silver birch

A reproduction divers helmet I've been meaning to photograph for ages. I placed the studio light inside and used the modelling light as illumination. Then I added a self portrait behind the glass in Photoshop The photo is taken with a Pentax k5

I'm making the most of the poppy explosion in the garden, and the rain with this shot. A poppy petal fell off, so I placed it on the garden table and framed up tightly using the 100mm macro on a Pentax K5.

A close up abstract of a poppy petal...such large and delicate things - they don't stand a chance in the wind and rain.

Plan A was to photograph tonight's lunar eclipse, but with all the will in the world, and no access to the largest wind machine in the universe, the cloud isn't going to shift. So there's no moon and I need a plan b. Fortunately I took one photo today