Nature photography

 

SINCE MANY PEOPLE come to the cottage (and to this part of the world) for the wildlife - and in particular the birds at RSPB Minsmere, this website would not be complete without a nature gallery. In this respect I count myself fortunate that one of my guests in 2009 proved to be a keen wildlife photographer. Rosie Green was until relatively recently the Head of English at a comprehensive school in London. During her retirement, however, and much to her own surprise, she found herself 'ambushed', as she puts it, by photography. Since she had long been a birdwatcher it was natural that she should seek out birds as one of her main subjects. At first she tried 'digiscoping', a technique in which a digital camera is used to take photographs through a telescope or 'spotting scope'.  She then graduated to a digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera. This uses mirrors, prisms and an array of different lenses to take very high quality, and high speed, action photos. Although Rosie has only been pursuing her new hobby for three years, she now says that she spends a great deal of her time behind the lens (or lenses) of her camera visiting all parts of the world in pursuit of pictures. This is perhaps not so surprising in view of the quality of her photographs.  (If they should inspire you to do some birdwatching during your stay but you are worried because you don't even have a pair of binoculars to your name, don't worry - you will find some in the cottage.)

 

The photos collected here were taken before Rosie's first visit to Middle Cottage. The first six were all taken in or around Minsmere. But I haven't been able to resist including a few more, most of which might have been taken there but were in fact taken elsewhere. If you want to see more of Rosie Green's photographs, visit her wildlife gallery by clicking on this link. (For a slideshow click on the SitBack link and then on the cogwheel icon to adjust the settings - and to suppress the titles. Then click on the full screen icon and sit back.)


All the slideshows on this site are best viewed full-screen; this allows the images to reach full size. Press F11 to view full-screen, then click on any thumbnail to enlarge.You can use the keyboard arrows to move forwards or backwards.  Press F11 again when you want to return to normal view.