Author: Victoria Green
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In search of the grey mare
With such lovely autumnal sunshine I headed out to the New Forest this week with the intention of trying to capture some sunset landscapes and grey mares to photograph. White horses have a deep connection to the south of England their images carved in chalk on hilltops but it was Epona’s mare I sought. After…
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Eden Ahoy!
Two of my favourite things plus a night away with my better half was always going to bode well. Dreadzone at eden project in Cornwall on October 1st was like having your favourite pudding and your favourite meal delivered by hand. The following day exploring the flora of Eden was like a 7 course meal…
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Down in the Wild Wood ~ New Forest Festival
The festival season this year has been full and varied in the South of England. To finally set the last to bed I visited the New Forest Festival based at the wonderful venue Minstead Study Centre. Nestled down curling green lanes multicoloured flags beckon us onward, forest children with painted faces sit rapt listening to…
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In celebration of leaves
In one of my mother’s diaries, writing about my first year, it says that I seemed to be only soothed by watching the leaves above me from the comfort of my pram. The patterns, colours and movement of leaves I do find fascinating. The veins of chlorophyll like a road system spreading across a continent.…
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An Ode to Moths
I’m a bit nuts about moths. It was the dead greater tiger moth that I found under the rose bush when I was three that did it. I carried it into the house and nestled it’s furry body into a matchbox, occasionally opening it to marvel at the delicate powdery wings and stroke a little…
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Pulse ~ a festival for the heart
I had such a wonderful response to my recent blog about the Secret Garden Party festival I thought I should treat you to some more festival wild things that are we humble humans in full summer bloom in thanks for your kind words! Pulse Festival grew from a little idea to raise some cash for…
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Bring back the buzz! ~ Help Save Bees
When I was a gardener occasionally a client would be heard to say ‘Isn’t that a weed?’ that I was tending. Instead of starting a long conversation about what is a weed and what isn’t; is the double headed poppy that appeared in my garden this year a weed because the seed must of fallen from…
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Circles in the corn…
“In this green and pleasant land We have a dream to understand In the mountains of the mind There is a spirit you will find…” © Dreadzone It is 10 years now that I have been visiting crop circles. Late spring begins, the rape fields flower and the circles start to arrive in the fields…
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Secret Garden ~ Blooming people!
It’s not always flowers that I love to photograph but also the human blooms that arrive in the fields of England when the marquees are set up, the sound sytem plugged in and the festival fancy dress adorned. This year I visited Secret Garden Party for my gorgeous friend Kim’s music website neverenoughnotes and had…
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Butterfly Haven
Being the proud owner of a rather lovely new Nikon D5000 I have been getting out and about as much as possible this summer exploring conservation areas for butterflies, wild orchids and as ever, inspiration. A few weeks ago I was introduced to Yew Tree Hill part of the conservation land managed by the charity…
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Ropewalk Community Garden
Ropewalk Community Garden is one of those little jewels hiding away in the centre of an urban concrete sprawl that you just never knew existed. Back in the cold early month of March I popped down on a drizzly Sunday morning to help with the weaving of a willow arch for the children in the…
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From Orchids to Eden
My new love of nature photography began to take me on a curious path. Walking through a blue bell wood on a hunt for a hill that my partner had been able to see from his inner city apartment I found what I thought might be a spring orchid. This gorgeously happy yellow flower with…
