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A short month and I think I have been a bit short of inspiration in February, hoping to get my mojo back in March.
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Small patch of open water on the ice at Hermitage Park. Enough for a half a dozen of our toughest (maybe not the brightest) ducks to stay in the frozen north. (Reposted with a heavy crop)
You can't tell from this picture, but yesterday and today we've been getting the fourth proper snow of the winter, which is more than I can recall in any previous year. Flicker, backyard Olympia.
along the passage to the february garden
the bougainvillea www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-bou... remains covered to protect from the frost. i've taken a look. it's got a 50/50 chance of surviving the winter, time will tell
for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm flic.kr/p/2gnCyih meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ...
www.flickr.com/groups/gardening_is_my_hobby/ helpful for ideas. thank you for sharing
8 February 2020
I went on a small photo safari as a tourist in my own town today.
Bringing only a 70-200 mm, it was very different images than usual.
HDR +/-2 EV
ISO 320 - 1/60 sec - f/9.0 - 121 mm
This has been a very strange and mild winter. Puddles in February, this makes no sense.
Hope everyone is doing well.
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...with a strange mix of sunshine and ice!
My February has been dominated by two things - snow and the COVID vaccine! For almost all the month we have been kept at home by the constant wintry weather. Snow, ice, sleet and gales ... it was almost impossible to get out - even for a little exercise! And then there has been the roll-out of the vaccine; and for us it meant braving the weather (as soon as we could) to make the 30 mile round trip to the nearest vaccination centre.
In vaccine terms, as more and more people are getting their first jabs, the focus is beginning to shift. Our first goal was (still is) to drive down the infection numbers in the country, vaccinate as many people as possible - and take the strain off the health services, so we can think about coming out of lockdown.
But there's a new twist to the story, as we are becoming more aware of the number of mutations, new variants of the original virus! This means that the speed of vaccination roll-out matters not only for us, but everywhere! Wherever rates of transmission remain high it is almost inevitable that new variants will emerge.So the pandemic has still got a long way to go, and many more twists and turns!
In photographic terms the winter has proved to be a time of lock-down by nature as well as government! Not much scope to visit the coast, or even closer beauty spots. Shooting the winter garden, the village in snow and ice is mainly as far as I got! So still life and indoor shooting dominated the month.
Once again, thanks to everyone who has visited my photostream and for the comments and faves. I hope the collage gives an enjoyable look back through February ;o)
All my collages are collected here: At a Glance
While doing some much needed work on the archives (I've got stuff waiting for processing from january 2013 :P) I stumbled on this shot, which happens to be the very same bridge I posted last month, with the rediculous amount of love locks on it.
Notice there were hardly any there in february 2013!