Shenstone photography

MY Grandad's collections are there now.

Sadly not geology, but gardening (AKA Archaeology). We visited a couple of years ago to donate some extra stuff to the collection that I had passed on from an uncle that made more sense to be with the collection than my loft 🤣🤣

Multi coloured wooden beach huts

It's filthy weather outside and forecast for even more tomorrow so here's some nice colours taken in #scarborough #yorkshire on a nice sunny day

#beachhuts #Olympus #OMsystem

Not sure that you meant this... But I went caving once. Still doing it nearly 50 years later 🤣🤣

You call it spelunking, we call it caving. Coniston copper mines UK.

Great to see this impressive waterfall!

It's a long time since I visited iceland and all my pictures are on slides which I must scan. Now I have an easy to use system that screws onto my OM cameras it's a lot easier... maybe this winters project :)

Coastal sunset with reflection of the last of the sun on the sea

Coastal sunset with reflection of the last of the sun on the sea

Coastal sunset with reflection of the last of the sun on the sea

Sometimes you just have to sit and wait for the sun to do its thing and enjoy every minute.

#Gnerja #Malta #Sunset #Coast #OMsystem #Olympus #landscape #seascape #fourthirds

Back in the mists of time Back in the mists of time we had an idea to help the National Museum of Wales by cleaning / conserving / scanning and digitising the Morrey ...

Quick update on some of the final numbers from the Salmon project

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#birdphotography #nationalmuseumofwales #amgueddfacymru

Colonel Morrey Salmon with glass plate camera taken in the 1980s

Colonel Morrey Salmons' first birding and photography diary covering 1903-1908 is now online at cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/Sal...

#birds #photography #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #earlyphotography #Cardiff #CardiffHistory #wales #WelshHistory

Tritons’ Fountain/ Il-Funtana tat-Tritoni, Valletta, Malta

Hand held at 1/15th using available light whilst on holiday. I love the image stabilization on this camera

#omsystem #olympus #OM1 #landscape #travel #culture

It wasn't the first time he'd claimed something that wasn't the case. His "first wireless transmission over water" was beaten by Sir John Gavey www.cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150...

I have that book, never expected to meet it for real, but here's a couple from when I put the actual specimen together back in 1986. A real first for the National museum of Wales #dinosaursfromchina

The first of the Salmon and Ingram transcribed documents are now online

A lot of hard work, more to come when time allows

cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/Sal...

#birdphotography #wildlife #Cardiff

Extract of the BGS Seabed Geology 10k: Bristol Channel (v.2) digital map. Showing the three layers of the dataset (Seabed Substrate, Geomorphology and Structural Geology) draped over the hillshade derived from MB data acquired by the CHP. Note that the legend only shows the features visible in the map extract.

Extended seabed geology map of the Bristol Channel published 🗺️ 🌊

Renewable energy infrastructure, whether on- or offshore, requires an in-depth understanding and accurate characterisation of the underlying geology. 🧵

Wildlife watching at home.

Phone photo through the patio doors of a frog in a flower pot

#amphibian #wildlife #wildlifephotography #wales #nature

You want me to respect the Earth..

Well I do, obviously a lot more than the person who spray painted on this bit of local geology

#omsystem #olympus #geology #landscapephotography #Triassic #Wales #BarryIsland

They are Peruvian lily, scientific name Alstroemeria

They are called Peruvian lily, scientific name is Alstroemeria

We have them in our garden in the UK

Yes the one in Cardiff was the original fossilized bone with some reconstuctions where needed. Weighed a ton!

Mamenchisaurus Dinosaur exhibit

Mamenchisaurus Dinosaur exhibit

Here's a couple of the cast in Nottingham in 2017. I could not get far enough for a decent angle in the photograph. They kindly provided a mirror as an alternative view which worked quite well

It did go on tour after we had the initial exhibition and London was one of the places.

When there was an exhibition in Nottingham a few years ago that was a cast not the actual bones as they wanted a "dynamic" pose that would have damaged the real ones

Cover of Cherry Keartons book

Did you watch Countryfile talking about Cherry Kearton?

One of our members Grandmother was so impressed with his talk she bought the book and went to Uganda for 10 years with her husband teaching in local schools.

Wildlife photography and talks have always inspired

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Reflections of trees in a canal in Black and White

Reflections of trees in a canal in Black and White

Reflections of trees in a canal in Black and White

What a topsy turvy world we live in ...

That's the clue and one of the pictures should be a give away

#OMsystem #Olympus #Landscapephotography #Nature #Naturephotography #B&W #BlackandWhite #Wales #Clydach

Why not use the original reconstruction by Rhian Kendall. I know how much effort she put into it and IMO (I may be biased) anyone creating another work based on this should be crediting her even though the original was put into the public domain it would be polite to do so

Super Wide Angle view of Scarborugh Corner Cafe area

#Scarborough is a wonderful place when it's sunny. Here's 11 pictures that I took and stitched together to get a super wide view of the North bay #Yorkshire #Seaside #OMSystem #Olympus #Wideangle (to see the wide view click on the picture)

Tree and ruined cottage in Black and White

Still playing with some #B&W this time its a #Tree and #Ruin from the #Yorkshiredales #OMsystem #Olympus

Dead leaf on a twig in Black and White

Dead leaf on a twig in colour

Thus time of year (in the northern hemisphere anyway) the leaves take on an even greater level of interest IMO. Some of the trees are already dropping probably due to drought stress

Interesting in colour, but I lke it in B&W as well

#OMsystem #Olympus #B&W #trees #nature #autumn

Back in 1986 I put together Mamenchisaurus on it's first trip outside of China to the National museum of Wales

Some not very good pictures of it scanned from my old 35mm slides

#dinosaur #fossil #geology #NMW

A tree on a country lane with high hedges and the sun in the background throwing shadows

Going through some old pictures as I sort out on my new computer and definitely having a Black and White phase at the moment #B&W #OMsystem #Olympus #landscape #landscapephotography #trees #Wales

What's the camera you are trying out?

Black and White version of Jointed and faulted rocks on a wave cut platform

Jointed and faulted rocks on a wave cut platform below the cliffs

The wrinkled skin of the earth!

For those who are not sure what the B&W is it's the faulted and jointed Jurassic aged rocks at the foot of this cliff in South Wales

#omsystem #olympus #B&W #landscape #landscapephotography

I did another from further away? Anyone prefer this one?