My walk on the Wild Side with Cambridge TV

I was just getting ready to post this week’s blog yesterday (which will now be up next week instead) when I got some exciting news and I just had to share it as soon as possible! I recently spent an afternoon filming at  Trumpington Meadows with a team from Cambridge TV who were making a feature on the reserve for their series, The Wild Side. The episode went live at rather short notice last night.

Having spent so much time getting to know the reserve and photograph it through the seasons, I was really pleased to be asked to take part in this short documentary. The focus is on the development of the reserve and it’s biodiversity, with an added piece on macro photography by yours truly.

It was a strange experience for me to be the other side of the camera, but a treat to be able to share some photography tips and tricks with a wider audience as well as some of my images from the reserve.

Here is a quick screen shot with one of the lovely presenters, Adam Canning. If you want to watch the whole episode, you can catch up online here.

Wild Side screenshot

 

I’ve got a brand new combine harvester…

…Actually I don’t, but I do have some new combine harvester images which I thought I’d share this week. It is a rather different subject to my usual wildlife photos but I always love watching the harvest, it reminds me of my childhood.

 

combine harvester

 

These images are from the fields around our house. My husband and I were watching from the end of the garden as a team of three combine harvesters and three accompanying tractors with trailers worked into the night to make the most of the weather. From our point of view they had picked the best time for it – the sunset intensified to a glorious glow.

 

John-Deere-Tractor-with-trailer

 

John-Deere-Combine-harvester-side

 

John-Deere-Combine-harvester-back

 

This afternoon as I write the team are back, having baled the straw yesterday, they are now collecting the enormous bales with fancy self-loading trailers. In a matter of moments the crops which have been maturing for months are gone, and the cycle begins again.

 

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