Gannets on Bass Rock

Bass Rock in the Firth Of Forth sticks out of the water with sheer cliffs all around. From a distance the top of the rock looks white. It’s white with the density of gannets that call it home during the breeding season. At 150,000 birds, it’s the largest colony of Northern Gannets in the world. … Read more

Guide To Digital Cameras

Revised and updated 23 April, 2019 Introduction This is a practical guide to buying a digital camera to help you know what to look out for in a camera before you buy it. It will look at features like whether the camera can focus quickly enough to get the shot and how to test that, … Read more

Sheep Ecards: Spending Time Under A Tree

We have just added these photographs of this lamb to our ecard collection. We came across this young sheep – still practically a lamb – scratching its fleece against an gnarled old hawthorn tree. It was so preoccupied with this that we were able to walk quite close to it. We knew it would make … Read more