#astrophotography #andromeda Bored with timelapse Milky Way photography on Friday night due to many interruptions, went home and setup for Andromeda Galaxy. Am delighted with the results of just a couple of hours worth of data. This image is directly from the scope using local editing tools.

The ride along Hurst Spit was brutal in those places where the stones and gravel of the spit had been recently reinstated as the bike wheels just buried themselves in the lose surface and I'd grind to a halt. A section of the original Henry VIII fort for protection against French is at bottom right.

#viaduct Dent Head Railway Viaduct in Yorkshire. Photo stitch taken from the roadside. This structure is just up the line toward Carlisle from the Ribblehead Viaduct famous for that Hogwarts train hurtling across it taking the trainee wizards off to school for a new term of magical learning.

This is the final result of all my clambering up and down ridiculously steep slopes in Corfe Castle. As you can see I had to come down from the heights above the castle ruins to get my image due to serious mis-calculation over the angle I could get to on the heights. This might mean a forced return!

#waterfall #wensleywaterfall #yorkshire The heat, the heat! It's way beyond where I can sit at a desk and accomplish anything. Time for a break until things cool down 😊. See you on the other side! This would be an ideal cooler-downer 😊.

#ladybird #honeybee #spider #crabspider A Seven Spot Ladybird choosing grit over Greenfly for lunch 😂. And a Crab Spider having caught a Honey Bee for its lunch. Luckily a healthy hive has plenty of spare workers!

#hoverfly #hypericum A Hoverfly deciding whether to land on Hypericum flowers.

#Milkyway #astrophotography St Aldhelm's Chapel on a headland near Swanage, Dorset, UK one night when chasing the dark but failing to allow for the moon. And a shot straight out of the Seestar scope of the Milky Way.

#insects #blowfly #greenbottle #beetle #soldierbeetle A Soldier Beetle on a pink Clover Flower. A useful wee beast pollinating plants as it feeds on nectar and pollen and keeping down pests when browsing on other insects and their eggs. And a Green Bottle fly on Carrot flower.

#flower #wildflower #salsify #seeds #dispersalmechanisms Salsify! Like a dramatic Dandelion seed puff, a puff with attitude 😊.

#rose Too hot to edit and post photos even now at 9pm!

#insects #butterfly #bee #carderbee Just back from a wonderful week in North Yorkshire. There haven't been enough insects in my life this year. Too many chemicals sprayed! A Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly on Bramble flowers and the same butterfly sharing a bunch of Bramble flowers with a Carder Bee.

#flower #poppy #diptych A diptych of a Poppy one of them has been desaturated. Can you tell which one 😂😂😂?

I lightened Knowlton Church at someone's suggestion, wish I'd thought to do it myself, and like it a lot better.

#bee #bumblebee I don't know if it's a general thing this year or something local where I'd expect certain plants to be humming with bees all is silent which worries the hell out of me. I've been banging on for years about how insect numbers have been falling, it feels like a crash here this year.

I was amazed at the brood sizes I saw. On my first day there I saw a female, with 3 males in attendance and a gang of 13 ducklings! Having mentioned this I went hunting and hadn't edited any of those images yet. This is the Menage a Quatre check the male to the left and his quilopecia! See alt 😊.

#nebula #bubblenebula The Bubble Nebula from several nights viewing with a Seestar S30 pro. I can't get enough of the whole process. Being able to see this stuff hidden from unaided view is just mind blowing. Makes you wonder just how important events on Earth are to the rest of the Universe.

#bird #mallard #duckling #reflection Mama Mallard with her brood getting ready to settle for the night. Mum is showing them how to clean up ready for bed and they are all copying her 😂😂😂

#composite Knowlton Church Ruins. I have visited several times at night in the hope of an interesting Milky Way shot. The biggest problems are the amount of light pollution from Wimborne Minster to the south just where the Milky Way is and from a building left lighting up that tree.

#dragonfly #nymph #odonata #anisoptera #metamorphosis The old home abandoned. It left at first light.

#bird #robin #lunch #mayflies While walking along the Brecon Canal I was trying to focus on a Mayfly above the water surface. A flash of reddy-brown and it vanished from sight but there in front of me, on the towpath, and looking very pleased with itself was this Robin with a beak full of Mayflies!

#brecon #breconbeacons #4waterfallswalk #FalloftheWoollenWasher The 3rd falls in the 4 waterfalls walk sequence. Sgwd y Pannwr in the Welsh English translation as a hashtag.

#moon #S30pro #seestar This is the output directly from my smart Seestar S30 pro telescope of last night's moon. It is the product of a 2 minute video that has then been stacked. Beautiful isn't it?

#poppy #fieldpoppy #flower #red The vibrant red of the field poppies I now, after collecting seeds a couple of years ago, have growing all over the garden.

In Brecon, South Wales, recently went on a 4 Waterfalls walk. Astonishingly hard work for an 'easy' hike 😊. While taking my photos I spotted a pair of Dippers feeding young. Dippers were on my list of ‘hope to sees’ while in Wales, so exciting! Finally managed to find an unobscured view of Falls 1.

#bird #dipper #water #spring #broodfood This was on my list of 'things I hope to see' and whoop, whoop I was lucky enough to see a pair of Dippers feeding young on yesterday's waterfall walk. Wrong lens though, so returned today and found a second pair.

I am still alive things have just been a little hectic lately. This is the first post from Brecon in South Wales where I am freezing bits I would rather not freeze off trying to capture the Milky Way. This is a duckling, one of many ducklings just looking cute as it practices Makin' Some Noise.

#flowers #springflowers #dandelion #dandelionflowerphases #beefood #dandelionclock #wishes The various phases of a Dandelion flower.

#spring #springflowers #kingcup #yellowflag King Cups and Yellow Flag, waiting for its moment to flower, in the background.

#nebula #nebulae #easternveilnebula #westernveilnebula #supernova A rather fanciful interpretation of the Eastern and Western Veil Nebulae which are part of a supernova remnant in Cygnus. Feeling that the whole looked more interesting than the sum of its parts I went for a mosaic.