2009
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APR
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East Blean April 2009 |
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Monday, 20 April 2009 |
East Blean April 2009  | - Click on the image above to view gallery
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 Ladybird on Bluebell
For a very short time, while the Wood Anemones are still flowering and before the leaf canopy takes all the light, the woodland floor comes alive with a mixture of Bluebells and Lesser Celandine and I always find the mixture of colours amazing. Before too long though all the flowers have had their time, the leaf canopy becomes so dense that the flowers can’t survive and it’s sadly over until it all happens the same time next year.
Taking pictures in woodland especially under the leaf canopy means that the light levels are sometimes low resulting in very slow shutter speeds, so it’s essential to use a tripod at all times. I sometimes have a small moan about having to carry mine with me but I also know I wouldn’t get the pictures I do if I didn’t take it. I find it essential for taking my macro shots of flowers too.
 Colourful carpet of flowers  Orange tip butterfly
I would say that this last couple of months have been fairly dry and the footpaths would confirm that. On so many visits at this time of year wellies might have been sensible choice of footwear but even I (who would normally get very dirty on a walk in the woods) have come back with hardly a muddy knee after I’ve been kneeling to take macro shots of the flowers. It’s also been good to get some shots of the butterflies I would expect to see in the woods at this time of year too, including the Speckled Wood and the often hard-to-get pictures of Orange Tip, which you tend to find on woodland margins and which hardly ever seem to stop to feed.
Because I’ve visited East Blean so many times in previous years now and have more pictures on my hard drive from there than from anywhere else I feared I wouldn’t feel too inspired to take pictures of the same things again. But once I saw the flowers and trees coming to life of course I could see the pictures I wanted to take. I think it’s best I let the pictures speak for themselves and I hope you enjoy all those in the gallery accompanying this journal.
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