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Snow shoeing in Colorado this past April - but not many flowers around! |
& PETER WILLIAMS There are footpaths at the bottom of Anita's garden, and she and husband Peter Williams, having both recently retired, now have more time to indulge their enjoyment of walking - probably better described as strolling - in the peaceful countryside around their home in an East Leicestersire village. Peter's retirement project is to photograph the local wildlife for the future enjoyment of his granddaughters when, eventually, they are old enough to be taken for walks! Anita is definitely the artistic one - she points Peter in the right direction and he just fires the shutter!
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Cristata and Me |
I claim little bio-expertise but I do have an eye for a photograph and a keen eye for the rare and unusual. I have six acres of Orkney to tend and free peat (for the stove) to extract from the nearby headland. You won't see many of my pictures here, as I cannot compete with the Roger but I could tell you how to get the best from your camera.
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Atop Haystacks, Lake District. I am smiling because I enjoyed the climb and had no idea just what a swine the descent would prove to be! |
I am a veterinary surgeon, based near Newcastle-upon-Tyne but working around the country. My granny taught me about wild flowers when I was young, but I have forgotten most of those, except for pink and white campion, ragged robin and dead nettle. Wild birds are more my particular passion these days, and I also share Roger's interests in narrowboats and RiscOS.
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I am a computer programmer and live in the seaside town of Blackpool (noted for fresh air and fun) in the North West of England. You can reach me via my web site - www.davidpilling.com
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Nepal, Annapurna range in background.The sunhat in the picture is about 50 years old and much travelled. The wind has blown it off occasionally, but it has always been rescued - so far. |
I was encouraged to take an interest in plants from a very early age, by my mother, her brother and my first school (which even gave prizes for collections), and the interest has lasted. I wish I knew more systematic botany, though. Plant-hunting is an excellent accompaniment to mountain walking, provided one has companions who will tolerate the stops. Ideal companions share the interest, because then you can argue about identifications.
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I have worked in Agricultural Research most of my life at several government funded Research Institutes as an Agronomist. Following financial cutbacks I was re-deployed for 12 years as a Health & Safety Officer at Silsoe Research Institute, located in the beautiful environment of Wrest Park in Bedfordshire, until financial cuts closed the Institute and forced retirement. In addition to farming and occupational health and safety, I am also interested in computers, singing and training dogs.
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On Ribblehead Viaduct
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I learnt a lot about flowers from my mother when I was a child, some of which I have since forgotten. I am by no means an expert. I like plants when I am out walking and I also treat many wild plants that appear in my garden as guests (though a few of the more aggressive ones get treated like enemies). But my interest has to compete with many other things, see: www.jaharrison.me.uk Getting a digital camera changed the way I take pictures, and the type of things I take. I find I take far more pictures of flowers now than I did with film. Even if it is not the reason for taking the camera in the first place, if it looks interesting then it gets taken.
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Shell Island, May 2008.
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I started to photograph plants and wildlife on my many fishing sessions. I met Roger on a camping trip in may 2008 and his passion for wildflowers was infectious, as a result I find a short walk in the country can take me all day.
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Amateur naturalist with particular interest in mountain flowers.
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Fred is a Lancashire man who bought his first camera from Woolworth's, the sixpenny shop. It cost 1s..6d as it was sold for 6d a part (back, lens and body) not sold separately! A member of Lancaster Photographic Society, he has been photographer of the year 7 times and black and white photographer of the year 10 times out of the 11 years since it's inception. He vowed never to go digital but in his 80th year the allure was too great for him, he dipped in a toe and then dived in. When he is not winning prizes he is advising others on digital editing and printing.
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Joy is better acquainted with the weeds in her garden than the cultivars! She was a reluctant photographer but was finally drawn in by stepfather Fred and loved the old black and white printing days with manual cameras. However digital photography proved much handier during her four years working in Asia.
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Under Giant Knotweed at Tatton Park |
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In full wild-flower stalking mode; here on the track of Papaver rhoeas in Samos. The Mediterranean subspecies of corn poppy are striking in their intensity of colour; they are irresistible.
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Enjoying a pint in Hayfield after a bog-trot over Kinder Scout. All other photos © Roger Darlington |
Roger, the author, first got into photographing flowers after he bought his first digicam in 2002, a Nikon 995. Soon afterwards he realised the futility of trying to photograph all the garden flowers since genticists kept on inventing new ones faster than he could find them. So he switched his attention to wild flowers, which were (approximately) of known and finite number and wouldn't keep on growing, unless watered.
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CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOMEHOW TO CONTRIBUTEYour own Wild Flower PhotosRoger has taken on an enormous task, which he finds almost impossible to complete all by himself, and welcomes contributions of photos of flowers from other people, especially those who live far away from Greater Manchester where different flowers may be present. Roger tries to show the flowers in all stages of development, and at all scales, ranging from a photograph of a whole raft of the flowers in their habitat, down to stem, leaf, fruit and flower detail if possible. If you have photos of flowers you would like to contribute, please contact me, the author of this website, at rogerarm@freeuk.com with a list of flower photographs you have, or are able to take. Just to help you in your choice and to give you some idea of what I have been unable to find, here is a small list of the wild flowers that Roger still has not got photographs of, or are well out of his range from Greater Manchester: Bastard Toadflax, Birthwort, Mountain Sorrel, Springbeauty, Shrubby Sea-blight, Cyphel, Moss Campion, Nottingham Catchfly, Sand Catchfly, Deptford Pink, Larkspur, Pheasant's Eye, Mousetail, Pasqueflower, Coralroot, Northern Rock-cress, Hutchinsia, Wild Candytuft, Awlwort, Great Sundew, Pitcherplant, Mossy Stonecrop, Purple Saxifrage, Yellow Saxifrage, Marsh Saxifrage, Piri-pirri-bur, Diapensia, Pipewort, Mountain Avens, Marsh Cinquefoil, Shrubby Cinquefoil, Sibbaldia, Purple Milk-vetch, Purple Oxytropis, Wild Liquorice, Sea Pea, Dragons Teeth, Sulphur Clover, Sea Clover, Little Robin, Sea Storks-bill, Chalk Milkwort, Marsh-Mallow, Wavy St John's Wort, White Rock Rose, Pale Dog-violet, Sea-heath, Six-stamened Waterwort, Dwarf Cornel, Greater Water-parsnip, Scots Lovage, Corky-fuited Water-dropwort, Spignel, Honewort, Corn Parsley, Whorled Caraway, Hogs Fennel, Oxlip, Blue Pimpernel, Chaffweed, Water-violet, Chickweed Wintergreen, Dorset Heath, Trailing Azalea, St Debeocs Heath, Bog Billberry, Round-leaved Wintergreen, Serrated Wintergreen, Yellow Bird's-nest, Rock Sea-lavender, Marsh Gentian, Spring Gentian, Squinancywort, Slender Marsh-bedstraw, Wall Bedstraw, Common Dodder, Field Gromwell, Purple Gromwell, Rannoch-Rush, Oysterplant, Yellow Oxytropis, Alpine Gentian, Pennyroyal, Knawels, Narrow-leaved Lungwort, Vervain, Ground Pine, Large-flowered Hemp-nettle, Red Hemp-nettle, Bastard Balm, Motherwort, Limestone Woundwort, Wild Clary, Meadow Clary, Calamint, Basil Thyme, Large Thyme, Deadly Nightshade, Pick-a-back plant, Thorn-apple, Black Nightshade, Hoary Mullein, White Mullein, Moth Mullein, Sweet Scabious, Giant Scabious, Mudwort, Balm-leaved Figwort, Yellow Figwort, Weasel's Snout, Pale Toadflax, Rock Speedwell, Alpine Speedwell, Cornish Moneywort, Yellow Bartsia, Saw-wort, Alpine Bartsia, Small Cow-wheat, Field Cow-wheat, Greater Yellow-rattle, Broomrapes, Cornsalads, Large-flowered Butterwort, Pale Butterwort, Arrowgrasses, Twinflower, Round-headed Rampion, Clustered Bellflower, Spreading Bellflower, Rampion Bellflower, Masterworts, Flaxes, Water Lobelia, Heath Lobelia, Cudweeds, Allseed, Catchfly's, Corn Cleavers, Cornsalads, Field Cow-wheat, Northern Dead-nettle, Fumitorys, Fluellens, Ground-pine, Sea Wormwood, Silver Ragwort, Field Ragwort, Salsify, Marsh Sow-thistle, Bristly Oxtongue, Spotted Cat's-ear, Venus's Looking Glass(es), Purple Vipers Bugloss, Scottish Asphodel, Martagon Lily, Star of Bethlehems, Autumn Squill, Babbingtons Leek, Three-cornered Garlic, Solomons Seals, May Lily, Herb-Paris, Butchers Broom, many orchids, Helleborines and Twayblades, Greater Bladderwort, Lesser Water-plantain, Starfruit, Tasselweeds, Eelgrasses, grasses and sedges, etc... This gives you some idea of the great scope there is for more photos. There are over a thousand plants I have still to find. All photos gratefully received, and will be acknowledged with tributes, much like in the above examples, also each photo will bear a Copyright symbol pertaining to yourself underneath each photo. I'm sorry I cannot pay for submissions, this website is all done by volunteers.
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