Nature Photography & Fine Art, card & print making
It’s Sunday so let’s me take you back to some stunning sunrises and sunsets from a few years ago!
I was having a sort out of my hard drive and I came across this video of The Beast from…
A few images from past Springtime. I just love the colours and the freshness of Spring. The first Daffodil has…
Well another weekend (nearly) already! As there has not been any gorgeous sunrises or sunsets this week (or none that…
Wow it’s been a week since my last post! I’ve just been so busy with work and gardening and all the other stuff that happens!
I visited Beningbrough Hall Gardens, Breezy Knees Gardens and editing a stack loads of photographs. Enjoy your Sunday and take lots of pictures!
What a most beautiful start to the weekend. Enjoy the sun and have a lovely day! Over the past 6…
What a hot and sunny week this has been; of course now it is the weekend it’s gone cooler again!…
It’s Sunday so let’s me take you back to some stunning sunrises and sunsets from a few years ago!
Blue skies
Brilliant blue sky & hot Autumn sun today (Friday). How lovely to be sat basking in the garden.
The term Indian summer reached England in the 19th century, during the heyday of the British Raj in India. This led to the mistaken belief that the term referred to the Indian subcontinent. In fact, the Indians in question were probably the Native Americans.
The term Indian summer is first recorded in Letters From an American Farmer, in 1778.
“Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness, called the Indian Summer.”
Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crèvecoeur:
The English already had names for the phenomenon – St. Luke’s Summer, St. Martin’s Summer or All-Hallown Summer and the French also referred to l’été de la Saint-Martin.
These have now all but disappeared and, like the rest of the world, the term Indian summer has been used in the UK for at least a century.
I think I prefer the term All Hallown Summer.
“An Indian summer crept stealthily over his closing days.”
Thomas De Quincy, 1855
As a photographer I love photographing clouds, they can make an ordinary image have the wow factor!
Nature is amazing and often rewards us with incredible opportunities for photographing sunrises, sunsets and sun rays piercing through the clouds, creating stunning views. I love to go out on cloudy days to be rewarded with dramatic and vivid images. Clouds make sunrises and sunsets look stunning.
Scientific bit
As the Sun is low on the horizon at sunrise & sunset, sunlight has had to travel through more of the atmosphere to reach us.
When light hits the atmosphere it is scattered, particularly when dust, smoke &
other particles are in the air.
This scattering affects the blue part of the light spectrum the most. So by the time the sunlight reaches our eyes there is generally more of the red & yellow parts of the spectrum remaining.
Dust and smoke particles commonly build up in the atmosphere beneath high-pressure systems, which are generally associated with dry & settled weather.
Sunsets, sunsets and more sunsets! Hope you like these montages of sunsets over the past few weeks, They have been stunning, too early…
Sorry for the silence but what a hot and sunny week this has been; of course now it is the weekend it’s gone…
Such a beautiful end to what started as a very wet morning. It is really mild here, with temperatures set to reach 16…
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