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Pastimes include walking around Cornwall with my Jack Russells. Very interested in nature, trees, conservation, wildlife and animal rights. Always looking on the bright side and grateful that we can enjoy all that Mother Nature has to offer.
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I love exploring the country for wildflowers and taking photos of them.
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Fiona is a 'graduate' of BSBI's online identiplant course and enjoys #wildflowerhour on twitter. She works on climate change, biodiversity and community engagement from her home in East Berkshire.
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I have written a small book about Guernsey wild flowers called 'Guernsey Wild Flora' in both French and English. I have, though, found many more wild flowers than the ones in my book.
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Growing up in Kent on a farm, I have always loved flowers and plants. Here I am admiring the spring blossom when I was one. I still love admiring wild things of all descriptions, taking photographs, and doing my best to put names to them.
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Retired and living in Eastbourne, Sussex. Primarily interested in insects, but trying to learn more about the local flora as it often helps in identifying the insects!
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I'm a Shamanic Practitioner and have lived here for 26 years. I've always loved wild flowers and I'm gradually teaching my 5 year old granddaughter what they're called.
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I live in East Sussex with my partner, Dave, our 3 Springers and flock of chickens. We moved to our current house 6 years ago which has a large garden split into 2 areas, cultivated and wildflower. We avidly encourage wild flowers to grow here as we have 6 different Bee species that visit and most of our planting is primarily to support them. We also have Humming Bird Hawk Moths that visit. Our cottage is over 200 years old and the wildflowers grow quite happily amongst the cultivated plants, including ground elder and marestail which we have now come to accept is here to stay. With so much development occurring, it is nice to be able to retain a large area where nature is able to do what she does best.
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My husband and I like walking and nature and putting names to things we see. Since we retired we have more time for our hobbies: I photograph plants whilst he photographs birds - we then have hours of fun searching reference books (and web pages) to correctly identify our pictures.
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Photographer for 60 years. Professional for 50 years. Very amateur botanist/plant spotter for 50 years. Still at it all and canoeing. Portrait while canoeing in Algonquin, Canada.
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Oakcroft Farm Produce, Tavistock, Devon
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Enjoys photographing orchids, but realises more and more that, just as having a pen doesn't make you a writer, having a camera doesn't make you a photographer.
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I don't have a website. I'm an active reader of/sometime contributor to various web blogs, including political, climate issues, motorcycles, computer issues and, of course, WAB. |
I've always been interested in nature and from being quite small could identify most of the commoner flora and fauna. It was the opportunities offered by digital photography that started me looking a lot closer at the stuff I would otherwise not see as I walked. I've been amassing and collating plant details for about four years now (over 350 images). I like walking but I'd prefer to travel somewhat faster, on two wheels. I used to ride a bike in the 60s and returned to biking about 8 years ago, since when I've covered about 40,000 miles, mainly on the Pennines/Derbyshire lanes. The only downside is spotting something interesting out of the corner of my eye and being unable to stop and investigate.
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Someone who enjoys hiking around the various hills in Scotland while taking lots of photos, making memories and hopefully learning about nature at the same time. ) My Flickr account, which is mainly hills/nature and athletics (not at the same time!)
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Rural Dorset is an amazing place for photography and I live close to some wonderful nature reserves. My husband Richard shares this hobby with me. I use a Canon EF100 f/2.8L macro lens with no other extras; all my photographs are taken hand-held. |
I lived in Leeds and for 30 years or so spent a great deal of my spare time in the Lake District where I was a member of a large walking & climbing club. Most of my photos had to be taken on the hoof so landscape shots were my main subject although I have always had a leaning towards flower photography. I was lucky enough to move to Dorset following early retirement. I live quite near the Butterfly Conservation HQ in Lulworth and joined the charity some 10 years ago. As well as doing quite a lot of manual work on the reserves during this time, I also do butterfly counts. On these walks, I will photograph anything & everything and my knowledge of the many species I see comes from books and the internet.
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Photograph found on a Wikipedia page from an anonymous source and shared under any CC licence they wish (but 'CC by 2.0' is the only one I have an icon for).
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Dr. Peter Llewellyn has his own wonderful wild flower website (Wild Flowers of the British Isles) with one (or two) photographs per flower, and over 1500 flowers!
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Keen amateur photographer, ex Royal Air Force, 30 years completed as an Intelligence Analyst. Photographing all aspects of nature, with strong interests in fossil hunting and aircraft photography too.
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What on Earth is that. Sally has a (closed) Facebook Group called 'Wildlife on Anglesea' where anyone can join and send in photos of wildlife found on Anglesea, either showing it, or asking what it is. [It is a 'closed' group so any link your Author provides here will not work unless you are a member of Facebook and have joined this group, as he has].
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George the Shibdon Wanderer
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I am a photographer, musician and climber, but mostly I like to wander around the countryside looking for wild flowers.
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I have been a medical herbalist for over 35 years and have spent the last 20 years photographing medicinal plants from the British, Continental, Mediterranean and Australasian floras.
We have a herbal website and a facebook page:
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I love nature and taking pictures
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White Asphodel grows in our part of Brittany in abundance, but the only other place we have seen it in any great numbers is Turkey. The spikes appear end of April/early May, and the stem then 'morphs' into an interesting seeded rod! Have wondered for ages what they were, and only recently found out, with Roger's help, through this site.
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Botanist, VC55. Photographer, Musician.
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Amateur naturalists living near Shap in Cumbria.
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I am a keen nature photographer with a particular interest in wildflowers.
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I joined a wildlife group on Facebook (Ruislip Harefield Denham Wildlife) in February 2015 and have been taking photos ever since. Researching what I have photographed is part of the fun and Roger's website has been invaluable in that!
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I can basically be described as an 'Amateur Wildflower Photographer based in Edinburgh'
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A regular contributor to The Countryman, and the author of Country Life's 2012 series Flora Britannica Rosamonds' work has also appeared in LandScape and NFU Countryside magazines. Rosamond has two websites and also writes the monthly column Reflections for Britain's biggest selling bird magazine BirdWatching
Rosamond Richardson
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Spurn where I am a regular for 40 years LOL |
I am 62 - birder; botanist; painter; musician. Married, 2 kids, went to York Uni where I worked with Alastair Fitter for my degree.
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For more information see David Tennants wonderful book : 'British Alpine Hawkweeds' (2008), David Tennant & Tim Rich |
I am interested in Natural History especially botany and entomology. My main interest in botany is British Alpine plants especially the Alpine Hawkweeds section Alpina and Subalpina which are found at quite high elevation usually in Scotland. I first became interested in Alpine Hawkweed through reading that great book 'Mountain Flowers' (1955) by John Raven & Max Walters. Many of the Alpine Hawkweeds are very rare with just very small numbers and should never be collected even for ID. I was given great help on this fascinating but complex subject by David Tennant.
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I am a 23 year old American student. I am pursuing a PhD in environmental history at The Ohio State University, and my hobbies include music, yoga, and nature walks!
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My husband Richard and myself took on an allotment ten years ago, when I took early semi-retirement as a journalist. Later we doubled the size of our plot when we took on the allotment next to us. We spend a lot of time gardening growing everything from potatoes, brassicas, beans and onions to apples, pears, plums, all the berries and currants. We'll try anything and our philosophy is, it has two chances!
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Colin is a keen walker (with dog called 'Rocket') and is interested in bird-watching and flowers, both wild and cultivated, which he finds on his walks, photographs, and tries to identify.
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We moved here a year ago, from Hever, North West Kent after 15 years, to be near our daughter and family. It was a good move at the right time and we are very happy.
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I am never happier than when I am outside in the fresh air and exploring. Nature never fails to amaze me and I feel my inquisitive mind is constantly learning new things from it. After many walks with Roger when I was younger I developed a passion for identifying plants and wildlife. I am now trying to develop my skills and forge myself a career in Ecology, thank you Roger!
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Im a goldsmith and diamond setter in my professional life but when I have the chance, my leisure time is taken up with Beekeeping, chickens and walking with my wife and very good friends (always with the dogs) in the countryside which has developed into taking pictures and wanting to know what every wild flower/mushroom is and can you eat it or not!? I think its call foraging !?
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I work as Deerpark ranger for Forest Holidays, Herodsfoot, Cornwall plus do a one week course for the FSC on the 'Geology, Botany and Marine Biology of S. Devon' at Slapton.
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I enjoy coming across interesting or unusual plants whilst walking in wild places, and the challenge of the detective work in identifying what I've seen afterwards.
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Search: Photo: © Simon Melville I have my own NaturePix website and a site on flickr (which I tend to keep more up to date). |
I retired a couple of years ago after working 36 years for the Nature Conservancy Council, English Nature and latterly Natural England. For my final decade I was part of the national NNRs Team (and was fortunate enough to visit all but 10 of the National Nature Reserves in England (220 of the 230), the remaining ones being mostly about as far from Hampshire as you can get (eg Kielder Mires). I have had an interest in wildflowers since about the age of 5 and have plant-hunted in various European countries over the years.
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I live in Northumberland and have always loved flowers of all kinds but now I have more time, I have started to try and grow as many as I have room for, mainly in pots, in my garden. I enjoy learning about them and watching them grow and bloom each day - I especially love the gifts I get from the birds in the way of a wild sunflower or the larkspur - both of which I didn't plant myself so they must have been brought by the birds in thanks for all the food I feed them.
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Jax & Rog at le Vay Cut |
Roger and Jacquey Newton are keen amateur botanists living in Southampton. We started with fungi and branched out into flora and while we are bending down amongst the plants, any tiny thing that comes along! The finding of flora is a joint undertaking with my wife, Jacquey, who is the photographer, I find the specimens. So really it is a team effort.
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I started making a list of wildflowers in 1998, as I could not resist the challenge to identify them. Now have a list of over 300 and still finding new ones.
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I am standing on the top of Pole Steeple which is a large rock outcrop on the South Mountain overlooking the Michaux State Forest. |
I was born and raised in a beautiful valley in South Central Pennsylvania. At that time it was rural and the hills were covered with many flowering trees and the ground burst forth with beautiful wild flowers each spring. The hills and the woods were my home and I spent most of my time outside in winter and summer. I graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1958 with a degree in Forestry but only worked directly in Forestry for a few years before working in related fields. Photography was always a hobby for me. In 1945, I took a picture of Spring Wood Park that hangs in the museum of the Maryland and Pennsylvania RR. Nature photography is my love and many of my pictures have been use on brochures and reports for many state and public publications. I show my work and have received many awards for photographic excellence.
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I live in Devon but am temporarily based near Bognor Regis. I spend a lot of time peering at the ground and specialise in turning tidy lawns into meadow by selective mowing and no weeding or chemicals. Neighbours think it's a bit odd but I'm more interested in seeing what grows and in attracting insects, and the pay off has been finding Adder's-Tongue growing in the lawn - helpfully identified by Roger when I sent a photo to this site.
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I'm a retired history teacher and I'm trying to learn about plant life in Devon.
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North Scarp Slope, Harting Down. |
Plants are my life! I am never happier than out finding new and/or familiar ones; and I enjoy encouraging others to share my passion.
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I am 65, live in north Sheffield, retired and have been a keen walker since I was 14 and regularly have walking holidays in the Lake District and other parts of England, Scotland (including inner and outer Hebrides, Shetland and Orkney), Ireland and Wales as well as Belgium & France. I have holidayed and worked in 27 other countries. I walk every day now and I am usually not without a camera and binoculars. I photograph anything I am not familiar with and try to identify it.
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Jim from County Durham is a walker and amateur photographer, who has recently started to take interesting photos of flowers, mushrooms, butterflies, birds and anything else in the natural world that catches his eye.
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SIR RICHARD EYRE is a director of theatre, film and opera. He was Director of the National Theatre from 1988 to 1997 and recently directed Shakespeare's HENRY IV Part 1 and 2 for BBC TV.
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I am a UK based photographer specialising in images of nature. My lens is usually pointed at flowers, landscapes, sunsets, and insects, reflecting my lifelong passion for nature in all its wonderful forms. Fire is also a compelling interest, especially as personal contact with a fire artist gives me the opportunity to experiment with long exposures. Chris Cafferkey Photography I also do a blog on what I'm up to at my new home in the garden as ChrisCaff
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Amateur gardener and amateur photographer.
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I enjoy the wild places that this country still has in plenty, even in Essex where I live. I like to explore and discover, watch and observe, and see the surprises that nature so often conjures up. The unexpected is always the most memorable. If an insect lands on a flower you learn more about the insect and more about the flower. You see nature working.
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You have an excellent website, it was by far the best and most extensive one I found for identifying English wild flowers and weeds. I'm from Denmark originally and a lot of the plants I find in my garden are completely unknown to me (and my dad, who visits from time to time and helps with the gardening)!
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I'm a retired Patent Examiner who was fortunate enough to move with the job from London to Newport, South Wales. I've always liked the outdoors and spend many a happy day walking alone and with South Gwent Ramblers mostly throughout Monmouthshire and the Brecon Beacons National Park. I think that it is natural to want to know about all the things that you are looking at whilst out - flowers, birds, creatures, ancient farms, implements, cider and wine. Since I have no artistic connection between the brain and the hands, I have to sample the many local ciders and wines rather than make my own, and have to take photographs rather than paint the natural beauty in abundance in South Wales.
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My job is as a web developer and am very interested in Wildflowers. That scores big on the nerd scale! I'm just an amateur, but both myself and the missus enjoy learning & discovering.
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I'm am an amateur orchid enthusiast, I didn't know its name then but I found a pyramidal orchid in my French garden in 2008 and I wondered if that's growing in my garden what else can I find? I've been sneaking under fences, diving into hedges and braving all kinds of insect life ever since. It's passion number 1 (well after husband, dogs & painting actually)
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I'm an author/illustrator working on a book called Nature Uncovered which is set out monthly, just what you might see on a walk in the country from flowers to birds, insects to - well - anything you (or I!) can think of. This follows on from 3 Illustrated Guides, Chickens, Pigs and the latest, Ducks & Geese, which will be published in July. Lots of paintings on my website.
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I live just outside of Oxford and originally studied botany, back in the days when such degrees were offered! Armed with a PhD in plant pathology I went into the IT industry (no jobs for botanists in 1980!) and have been here for the last 32 years. I'm an avid gardener and have maintained a keen interest in the UK flora. I'm hoping to retire soon and so have more time to do what really interests me.
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I am in my mid seventies and have a website The History and Genealogy of Bradley, Suffolk.
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I am retired and have always had an interest in everything natural being a science teacher for 10 years of my working life in various disciplines. I live in Fleet in Hampshire and spend a lot of time visiting foreign countries and at home on nature tours when photography is a major interest and activity.
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I make a living working on an Apple Mac, drawing up graphic artwork and illustrations for the advertising and design industry, though I am pretty close to retirement age now! But I'm much happier writing music on the Mac, or scrambling across a hillside searching for wildflowers or butterflies. I've had an interest in nature since I was a kid, but websites like Roger's have been invaluable in identifying and learning about the plants, birds and bugs I have stumbled upon!
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I'm 63, retired after working for Midlands Electricity, (now called Western Power Distribution), 1st as an Electrician and the last 31 years as an Overhead Linesman. My hobbies are Crown Green bowling, walking with a group, (only up to about 8 miles, nothing too serious) although I have been a bit restricted after herniating a disc in my back 18 months ago, which has left me with trapped nerves and a weak right leg, but I hobble along, and a season ticket holder at Wolverhampton Wanderers, (although the least said of that the better after this season), and obviously interested in wild flowers & trees and the British countryside etc
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I am from Radcliffe originally and I have lived in Greenmount, Tottington and Rammy although I now reside in sunny West Sussex, most of my family are still oop north!
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I am a fifty something outdoor type who has suddenly realised that I know nothing about my surroundings. I am trying to make up for my lack of knowledge by photographing things that interest me in the countryside and identifying them later from the comfort of my armchair with a glass of wine.
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Hobbies include hunting mushrooms and orchids and watching wildlife in general. As I said above I have taken up cycling. So much easier to get around the byways. I am completing a BA in photograph with OCA. Only person in the family without a degree so thought I'd better get one.
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I am member of both the RSPB and Derbyshire Wildlife Trust.
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"Rob is a Tutor at the Field Studies Council Centre at Blencathra, Cumbria and spends his days teaching in the hills whilst being trailed by a gaggle of students. He probably doesn't take as many photos as he should."
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My name is Arturox I'm a triffid variant and I like to be out and about looking for strange fellow plants. I live on the South Coast where it is quite warm, but I don't think they would like me to visit the Isle of Wight. Ax
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I work as a civil servant and enjoy being outdoors walking (with my dog). I'm no photographer (thankful to the phone) and no flower expert hence ending up on this website, with Thanks to Roger's expert knowledge for identifying this plant in my garden.
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My primary interest is photographing birds which means that my cameras are usually fitted with very long focus lenses which are far from ideal for taking good quality photographs of flowers. Often the plant photographs have been taken just in passing while out seeking birds. These plant photographs are used as a bit of side interest in the talks we give on birds.
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This is a photo of me in my garden. I enjoy gardening much more now I have retired, but my main hobby is making short video's of friends when we meet-up for weekends away (that's when I spotted that plant). As most of us are real ale fans and we had just returned from Norwich after a prolonged pub crawl, I was quite surprised that the photo was reasonably in focus.
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We live in South Wales on a small farm and have created a wild flower meadow in our garden by letting it go wild. We cut the grasses once a year in Sept/Oct and take away as much of the cut material as we can (to lower the fertility). My wife and I are delighted by the appearance of the helleborines - we have had what we think are spotted orchids in April/May for the last three years but this is the first time these two plants have appeared.
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Born 20th Aug 1947. Married for 41 years this year. We love to walk and take in all that nature has to offer. When not photographing wildlife the next best thing is our grandchildren Lived all my life in Middx
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I photograph flowers because they don't fly away.
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I am a complete novice when it comes to flowers but live in a beautiful part of the world (Dumfries and Galloway) that is full of surprises
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Been in forestry and game keeping most of the time, in that time probably planted over a million trees, mind you that has taken around 50odd years as retired now and enjoying going out with camera and family.
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Trevor runs a publishing company, Gingernut Books
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Ian Paterson contributes under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Myself, with my wife, standing in front of the mansion house at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, where my wife works. We had just spent a windy, noisy night in a tent on site after a boozy evening, and we hadn't had much sleep. I like to photograph birds, insects reptiles and wildflowers, and i post a lot of them on flickr. My wife, Sam ('Nature Sam' on Flickr), is a fungi enthusiast.
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Talking to one of the natives I met during a holiday in the Austrian Tyrol 2 years ago which is more interesting, I think, than me alone. |
After I retired from the RAF in 1984 we settled in Ripon, North Yorkshire near where I was born. I took a part-time job for a few years with a specialist plant nursery which grew things for sale at what was is now the garden of the Royal Horticultural Society in Harrogate. In that period I learned a great deal about botany and created my own garden from scratch round my new home. The garden now contains many unusual plants and shrubs (and a 70ft Wellingtonia) but in 2010, as age takes its toll, it now absorbs most of my energies. I still get much enjoyment from my computers and particularly from the camaraderie connected with Acorn machines that I have been using since the Atom I built in 1978.
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I help look after all the public green spaces in the management of mid sussex district council. |
I trained at Kew gardens in the 70's but have only relatively recently taken a greater interest in wildflowers. My eldest son is also very keen and much better at remembering the names. I love to go on a walk on the nearby South Downs with him in spring/summer to see what we can see in way of wild flowers - my screensaver at work has now been for many years a great pic of a poppy against the blue sky taken on one such trip. I am a bit of a novice at taking pictures but have another son who is a professional photographer so hope to learn from him.
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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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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 narrow-boats 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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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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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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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 (RWD) |
Roger, the author, first got into photographing flowers after he bought his first digicam in 2002, a Nikon 995, for only after then was it possible to photograph flowers without wasting money on slide film. Soon afterwards he realised the futility of trying to photograph all the garden flowers since geneticists 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 PhotosYour Author 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. Your Author 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, Roger Darlington, the author of this website, at rogerarm@freeuk.com with a list of flower photographs you have, or are able to take. If there are a lot, I could forward a new USB stick for you to put them all on. 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: Birthwort, Mountain Sorrel, Shrubby Sea-blight, Cyphel, Nottingham Catchfly, Sand Catchfly, Deptford Pink, Pheasant's Eye, many Mousetails, Coralroot, Northern Rock-cress, Hutchinsia, Wild Candytuft, Awlwort, Great Sundew (leaves), Pitcherplant, Mossy Stonecrop, Yellow Saxifrage, Marsh Saxifrage, Pirri-pirri-burs, Diapensia, Pipewort, Mountain Avens, Shrubby Cinquefoil, Sibbaldia, Purple Milk-vetch, Purple Viper's Bugloss, Giant Viper's Bugloss, Purple Oxytropis, Sea Pea, Sulphur Clover, Sea Clover, Little Robin, Sea Storks-bill, Chalk Milkwort, many St John's Worts, White Rock-Rose, Pale Dog-violet, Sea-heath, Six-stamened Waterwort, Dwarf Cornel, Greater Water-parsnip, Scots Lovage, Corky-fruited Water-dropwort, Spignel, Honewort, Corn Parsley, Whorled Caraway, Hogs Fennel, Oxlip, Blue Pimpernel (the other one), Chaffweed, Dorset Heath, Trailing St Debeocs Heath, Bog Billberry, , One-flowered Wintergreens, Serrated Wintergreen, Yellow Bird's-nest, Rock Sea-lavenders, Marsh Gentian, Spring Gentian, Slender Marsh-bedstraw, Wall Bedstraw, Dodders, Field Gromwell, Purple Gromwell, Rannoch-Rush, Yellow Oxytropis, Alpine Gentian, Pennyroyal, Knawels, Vervain, Bastard Balm, Motherwort, Limestone Woundwort, Whorled Clary, Meadow Clary, Calamint, Basil Thyme, Large Thyme, Pick-a-back plant, Moth Mullein, Hungarian Mullein, Orange Mullein, Sweet Scabious, Mudwort, Balm-leaved Figwort, Yellow Figwort, Weasel's Snout, Malling Toadflax, Rock Speedwell, Alpine Speedwell, Cornish Moneywort, Small Cow-wheat, Crested Cow-wheat, Greater Yellow-rattle, some Broomrapes, Large-flowered Butterwort, Pale Butterwort, Twinflower, Spreading Bellflower, Rampion Bellflower, Masterworts, Flaxes, Heath Lobelia, Cudweeds, Allseed, Catchfly's, Corn Cleavers, some Cornsalads, Northern Dead-nettle, Fen Nettle, some Fumitorys, Fluellens, Sea Wormwood, Silver Ragwort, Field Ragwort, Marsh Sow-thistle, Spotted Cat's-ear, Purple Viper's Bugloss, Scottish Asphodel, Martagon Lily, Early Star-of-Bethlehem, Drooping Star-of-Bethlehem, Garden Star-of-Bethlehem, Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem, Autumn Squill, Babington's Leek, Solomon's Seals, May Lily, many orchids, Helleborines and Twayblades, Greater Bladderwort, Lesser Water-plantain, Starfruit, Tasselweeds, Eelgrasses, Water Starworts, grasses and sedges, etc... There are many missing from this list, which is too big to catalogue. If unsure whether I have it, you could try looking in the Subject Index (last column of the full website, or use the 'Search' function). This gives you some idea of the great scope there is for more photos. There are over a thousand flowers the Author has still to find let alone trees. All photos gratefully received, and will be acknowledged with tributes. Much like in the above examples each photo will bear a Copyright symbol pertaining to yourself underneath each photo. The Author is sorry he cannot pay for submissions; this website does not generate any revenue and is all done by volunteers (himself and contributors).
Thank you,
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