… caught in the act and now trying to look all innocent!
Yearly Archives: 2011
The changing colours of the city…
One of the characterising things about Ibadan are the rust coloured roofs that cover most buildings. During a recent visit, I noticed newer buildings which had been built with colourful roofing sheets as opposed to the usual zinc plated roofing sheets which slowly rusted with age to give the characteristic colour. I wonder how long it would be before the beautiful sea of rust brown roofs will be replaced by a bright scattering of colour.
I took this photograph from a hill overlooking the older part of the city.
This one overlooks the city centre where lots of redevelopment is bringing the brighter coloured roofs.
I imagine that eventually, this sea of rusty brown roofs will be a thing of the past.
Posted in
Landscapes, Travels
and tagged Ibadan, Nigeria, rooftops
Capturing summer: the insects…
I am currently capturing summer in photographs (see here for more details).
Today is all about some of the beautiful insects I have come across on my walks. I start off with the bumble bees I met at the poppy patch:
I was trying to take a photograph of this flower, but found that I was not the only one interested in it:
I met this colourful bug sunbathing happily on these flowers:
And I said hello to this wiggly caterpillar which reminded me of the very hungry caterpillar and made me smile:
Capturing summer
I was out walking in the park yesterday and thought about how much I prefer summer to winter. Although it is a big part of it, the warmer weather isn???t the only reason. I think it is that everything seems so much brighter, so much more colourful and so much more alive in summer. I took out my camera and started to take pictures of everything I saw that made me smile. After a few hours, I found I had still not run out of things to capture.
I have decided that during this summer, I will take as many walks in parks and woods as I can manage and capture, in photographs, as much of the summer as I can. When the winter sets in and all seems dull, grey and dead, I will hopefully be able to find some joy in my little virtual summer.
Posted in
Nature, Urban nature
and tagged bees, capturing summer, flower, poppy, Summer
Over lunch…
I took this one at lunchtime today.
Posted in
Macro, Nature, Still life
and tagged flowers, Summer
A bench, the trees and a ray of sunlight
Came across this bench and took this photograph before sitting and resting my tired legs.
A pile of firewood
I took this photograph on a lovely sunny day in April.
Posted in
Still life, Whimsical
and tagged firewood, homogeneous, park, Summer
The sunset
I took this picture of the sunset this week. I was driving along and thought it looked great, so I stopped, took a photograph and then carried on.
Posted in
Landscapes, Nature
and tagged sun rays, sunset
A goat
I followed this goat around trying to photograph her. We finally reached an agreement where I would stand 3 metres away and she would stand still for a couple of seconds!
