EYES ON THE PRIZE

One of the challenges of photography in England is the horse and cart narrowness of a lot of the rural roads. While I'm driving around with one eye on the road and the other on potential photo ops, I practically need a third eye to spot any potential spot where I can pull up. But sometimes I get lucky.

LAND OF ICE AND FIRE

Iceland!
I finally made it to Iceland!
It's kind of been one of those bucket list things to that you forget is on your bucket list because of all of the other things on your bucket list, until one day you're flying there and thinking...
Hells yeah, I always wanted to visit Iceland!

JUNKET

A few snaps from Rabat, in Tunisia. I was tag-along translator girl for a work trip (being the only office based person at our organisation that actually speaks French...probably one of my main selling points in getting job considering that several countries we work in have French as their official language).

SOLSTICE SUN

Getting used to seasonal shifts in daylight hours has been one of the hardest things to adapt to since moving to Europe. Although I spent many years in New Zealand when I was young, I lived near the equator long enough to consider daylight hours of equal length all year round as normal. Still, I finally got my little hound over to the UK a couple of weeks ago so my new daily routine involves getting up an hour earlier (groan) to be dragged comatose around the countryside.

IT'S ALWAYS SUMMER IN PROVENCE

I recently went on a short trip to Vergeze, a small sleepy village in the South of France. Time to shed the heavy coats and get a welcome respite from the northern cold snap.

FORET

Fly agaric toadstool

During my most recent visit back to France, I took the hound for an autumnal wander in the forests of Saint Amand les Eaux (Parc Naturel Régional Scarpe-Escaut). Decent forests are pretty few and far between in the north so it was a nice change to get out and about in a woodland. Lots of mushroom and toadstools on display, so I tried my hand at a little microcosm style photography.