The Little Things
13th April 2020
Do the little things in life pass you by?
If I'm honest, the big things in life seem to pass me by as well but lets concentrate on the small ones for the moment.
Lockdown - stay at home - only go out for essential supplies of crisps and wine. Never say boo to a goose and never put jam on a badger. Did we mention stay at home.
I decided to stay at home.
So the small things. What could our housebound photographer do during lockdown?
Inspired by the helpful guides in the broadsheets and online I sought inspiration. The Times published a helpful guide to 25 species of butterflies I could see in my garden. I looked out the window of my small terraced house wondering whether the 5m of paving slabs had miraculously become a haven for all the myriad of wonderful plants and butterflies the Times told me to expect. It hadn't.
Bird watching - another handy guide to the wonderful types of birds I could see flocking into my yard, sorry 'garden'. In the authors world everyone's garden extended far into the green and rolling fields beyond, not back to the old brick outhouse which I hadn't got around to demolishing yet. I looked to check if the five pigeons that sat and smoked crack on the roof over the road were still there. They were. I suspected that they were finding it harder to find hard drugs these days.
The only bird I have seen in my yard back in the day was, bizarrely a sparrowhawk. The most effective sparrowhawk in the world by the looks of things as it appeared to have destroyed all bird life. Expect pigeons.
So having given up useful garden guides then what could I do?
I do have some bushes in my yard which haven't been trimmed for a while (ooer Mrs lol).
Checking the useful Times guide for the type of bushes, which I had decided looked sort of green and leafy, drew a blank (the guide, pedantically, seemed to want more details) but it got me thinking - the World of Macro Photography. Back to the small things.
The Bank Holiday must have slipped off the God of Weather radar. Staying indoors and nursing his supply of wine and crisps, whilst watching Tiger King on Netflix, had momentarily distracted him and he'd forgotten to make the Bank Holiday weather crap. So I'd give it a go.
Here are the results. So lets all take time to enjoy the small things in life when we can.
Snail shell - there was an unfortunate end to that subject though
Dandelion taken into the sky
Spider alert
Very impressed with the evil mouth and I only noticed what it was hunting after I took the shot
Ladybirds - everyone loves ladybirds
If I'm honest, the big things in life seem to pass me by as well but lets concentrate on the small ones for the moment.
Lockdown - stay at home - only go out for essential supplies of crisps and wine. Never say boo to a goose and never put jam on a badger. Did we mention stay at home.
I decided to stay at home.
So the small things. What could our housebound photographer do during lockdown?
Inspired by the helpful guides in the broadsheets and online I sought inspiration. The Times published a helpful guide to 25 species of butterflies I could see in my garden. I looked out the window of my small terraced house wondering whether the 5m of paving slabs had miraculously become a haven for all the myriad of wonderful plants and butterflies the Times told me to expect. It hadn't.
Bird watching - another handy guide to the wonderful types of birds I could see flocking into my yard, sorry 'garden'. In the authors world everyone's garden extended far into the green and rolling fields beyond, not back to the old brick outhouse which I hadn't got around to demolishing yet. I looked to check if the five pigeons that sat and smoked crack on the roof over the road were still there. They were. I suspected that they were finding it harder to find hard drugs these days.
The only bird I have seen in my yard back in the day was, bizarrely a sparrowhawk. The most effective sparrowhawk in the world by the looks of things as it appeared to have destroyed all bird life. Expect pigeons.
So having given up useful garden guides then what could I do?
I do have some bushes in my yard which haven't been trimmed for a while (ooer Mrs lol).
Checking the useful Times guide for the type of bushes, which I had decided looked sort of green and leafy, drew a blank (the guide, pedantically, seemed to want more details) but it got me thinking - the World of Macro Photography. Back to the small things.
The Bank Holiday must have slipped off the God of Weather radar. Staying indoors and nursing his supply of wine and crisps, whilst watching Tiger King on Netflix, had momentarily distracted him and he'd forgotten to make the Bank Holiday weather crap. So I'd give it a go.
Here are the results. So lets all take time to enjoy the small things in life when we can.
Snail shell - there was an unfortunate end to that subject though
Dandelion taken into the sky
Spider alert
Very impressed with the evil mouth and I only noticed what it was hunting after I took the shot
Ladybirds - everyone loves ladybirds