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dansnaturepictures · 3 years

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Quick note about a change of format to my end of year wildlife/photography highlights of the year blogs

People I have known for a long time on Twitter and Tumblr may recall that at the end of the year I always do a series of blogs exploring my highlights of the year and marking the year that has just unfolded in my wildlife and photography hobby. What many won’t know as much it that I write the blogs up over the course of the year, getting into a pattern year on year of starting as early as March/April and adding to the various highlights after each wildlife/photography trip from a certain point in the year onwards or this year with working from home and all the extra wildlife/photography trips on lunch breaks and in evenings making additions weekly on a weekend morning.

With the photos I produce on days going up and up and me branching out into other areas of wildlife a lot I have found over the past few months whilst laying the foundations for the 2021 edition of the highlights blogs, which I already expanded to fifteen themes from the usual ten based on working from home still and all the extra things to write about, this has taken up quite a bit of time and has started to feel a little chore like, and like I was repeating information already posted about to go out at a later date. Over the years whilst I have immensely enjoyed creating and sharing the highlights blogs, I do think they have got a bit long. So with whilst I don’t know how much or whether I will continue working from home going forward, signs that my high photo yields and multi bands of my interest being something that seems here to stay, I have decided to revamp the highlights blogs and make them a more reflective and concise exploration of the highlights and key points of my wildlife and photography year in December.

I shall detail the new format below, however since March this year I have spent considerable time writing up 12 so far of the intended highlights posts in the usual format for this December. I do not want these to go to waste and do want the format to have a swansong, but whilst I am still working from home daily the time it takes to contribute to the blogs on the days is heightened so I do need one less thing to do which not writing up and making notes to write up the bits each evening will allow for immediately. So in December and due to amount actually the tail end of November too this year is my plan it will be a hybrid highlights blogs, the 12 blogs (and some of them have part one and two so are the same theme) in the old format charting experiences in my year from January to early August, then (as I’ll still probably write up these new posts each November or bits of spare time from the summer onwards and time to go out) some of (eight maximum) the new format of things that happened August-November. There may be some currently shorter bogs where I combine the two a little. Plus the usual introduction blog on the first night which will also explain.

So in the new format I will strip it back to basics of what I wanted to do when I first had the idea to do blogs on my ten highlights of my wildlife and photography year in 2013. From next year, I will do ten blogs in which I will mention ten key moments of my year on a different theme. The themes will mostly be an area of my interest so birds, butterflies, mammals, flowers, etc. with also a summary of holidays that year and one for ten key day trips and there may be different themes year to year. Within the blogs it will just be a little bit of text about each highlight/moment, a picture I’ve taken in the photoset corresponding to it or for some a picture from the same day if more applicable (I may see a rare bird and have it as a moment and not photograph it for example), and also a link to the or a daily blog I did about the moment at the time. In addition, I will also have a summary/my wildlife and photography year in numbers type highlughts blog that may say some of the key themes etc. of the year and will definitely have summaries of how my bird and butterfly year lists went comparing to previous years, key themes and journeys and also the list of my key bird and butterfly species seen that year possibly mimicking the wildlife sightings summary in my daily blog more. I don’t want to make this too long and these are the main two year lists of mine so will spark most for me to talk about but there is potential for it branch into my other year lists. This is one of the bits I enjoy doing most in the highlight blogs each year and a bit I think I can keep concise.

These eleven posts will be alongside my end of year photo tweets on Dans_Pictures with four of my favourite photos across categories that I took that year which I do in December.

So like I said at the end of this year, it’ll be twelve with some quite long posts about different highlights of my year then eight with this new format, I shall just call them Wildlife/Photography highlights posts and not specify a number. But for the twelve original format ones I will call them The story of... and the other eight will say 10 key or 10 standout... to vary things maybe.

This feels very much like when I ended the highlights blogs’ former Twitter partner my photo of the year and week choosing in 2017 in that it was becoming chore like and taking up a lot of time. However for these what is playing on my mind slightly is each December I am humbled by the interactions I get during these. So for the latter half of this year’s posts and going forward I will still call them my Wildlife/Photography highlights blogs of the year for those that may enjoy this and that’s why and with me being how I am too and liking to send the years out with a bang and reflect they had to stay in some format. I hope the new format allows me to be more considerate of my year to help me remember it even more rather than just chucking endless bits of text together late at night after a busy evening of processing and uploading photos. I am clear that working from home every day heightens what I have now, but prior to that the photo yields increasing and exploring other areas of nature were happening maybe just to a slower rate and I felt for years the highlights blogs were getting a bit long and repetitive to my daily blogs. So I think if in 2022 I was to be back in the office fully, this format change would still be useful. I think this move shall also make me able to perhaps pump more time into my daily blogs and consider different ways to write things or even on busy nights whether I need to do them the same night etc. as I still love and am inspired by doing this and can possibly free up time for more wildlife/photography posts on subjects other than what I saw on my day in bits of downtime.

Thanks once again for all your support for my posts, photos and tweets.

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blackbriarsraven · 7 years

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massively huge long way overdue reply post

uuugghh I’m sorry if I missed you, there’s a chance your comment didn’t show up in my feed because tumblr has been doing that a LOT lately. Also it might be very old, because I’m really not sure what replies I’ve done lately and I’m too lazy to go back and look u_u

I upped my q to 3 posts a day because, I uh, hit my queue limit and I still have lots that needs to go in it SO you’re going to get at least one more post per day. I may put it up to 4 because I don’t want to be stuck at the library for 4 hours one day queuing all these screens D: It’s mostly Witch Hazel in the next few weeks of queue but I try to bump bear posts up when I have a moment. They’re very silly :>

pika-chip replied to your post “*patiently waiting to see if the sims 4 mania on the dashboard will...”

Toddlers,TODDLERS EVRYWHERE!

It’s not even the toddlers that bother me. It’s the clay!

willky12 replied to your post “*patiently waiting to see if the sims 4 mania on the dashboard will...”

I don't like it when people reblog it all again for me as well, ugh!

Yes, I block all TS4 stuff if I can but if no tags......very frustrating

It is, there’s a number of people I’ve unfollowed because their content has entirely changed over to crap I couldn’t care less about :<

ashuriphoenix replied to your photo “@declarations-of-drama it’s pretty sad. People who don’t even like...”

"People who don’t even like playing kids are jumping on the bandwagon now." Also people who don't even like playing TS4 are jumping on the bandwagon (fixed it for you). Including people I never would have thought'd jump ship ever. Bleh. When it's finished, maybe. As of January 1st it was a turd. As of January 18 it's a turd with toddlers in it. No thanks.

The 24th is when the vampire pack comes out, IIRC. Be prepared for a new flood of crap.

Alllllllllll of that. OMG. I check my dashboard on mobile so yeah tag or no tag if you're spamming me with TS4 garbage I'm still subjected to it, though the untagged crap is the worst.

Ugh. Good to know. I’ve begun unfollowing the major offenders >_> I half considered getting it but knew it would end up being a waste of money because I’d never do anything outside playing in CAS. That was really the only thing I liked about it.

treason-and-plot replied to your photo “@declarations-of-drama it’s pretty sad. People who don’t even like...”

I would be too terrified to check the dash on my mobile. I hardly have the intestinal fortitude to check it on my pc...

lol it’s really annoying when I have very limited time to catch up on things I care about and I’m being impeded with dump crap ts4...

nornities replied to your photoset “Girl: Run! If she catches us, we’re dead! boy: WHY did i let you talk...”

Haha, love that :D

declarations-of-drama replied to your photoset “Girl: Run! If she catches us, we’re dead! boy: WHY did i let you talk...”

Not sure if that tag is referring to a bear joke from your previous posts or the movie - See No Evil, Hear No Evil?

declarations-of-drama replied to your photoset “Library lot WIP in Misty Glen ”

Lovely!

ashuriphoenix replied to your photo “She found some iron and a bottle of nectar. ”

Bears shouldn't excavate. D:

willky12 replied to your photo “Discussing philosophy with a bear over hot chocolate (he learned...”

rapidfire religious questioning hahahahaha, love it!

simblu replied to your photo “Discussing philosophy with a bear over hot chocolate (he learned...”

Love it.

davidmont replied to your photo “Discussing philosophy with a bear over hot chocolate (he learned...”

lol that bear

sims3hasstoppedworking replied to your photoset “I am always here for you, if you are in trouble or if you need...”

THE MOST ROMANTIC DATE EVER

hehehe he has plans for this date

willky12 replied to your photo “@ashuriphoenix lmao it is only a wip. It’s only half decorated…i ran...”

https://ladesire-thesims3.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/rime-investigation-set-by-ladydesire.html

Oh thanks! I think I stopped even trying her links because they’re almost always broken xD

willky12 replied to your photo “@ashuriphoenix lmao it is only a wip. It’s only half decorated…i ran...”

http://sims3s.ru/accessory-police-set.php

I had this already, thanks!

sims3hasstoppedworking replied to your photoset “Lago Simiore is fucking gorgeous part 2”

Guuuurl lmao dont make want to download this world ��

rofl I tend to hoard worlds. Norn is a great creator, you should get it *nudge nudge*

ashuriphoenix replied to your photoset “I will greatly enjoy seeing more of you. Your beautiful face lights...”

tfw you realize the blog owner misspelled her own family's name on her banner...... :>

|:< you are all bad.

ashuriphoenix replied to your photo “@ashuriphoenix lmao it is only a wip. It’s only half decorated…i ran...”

I believe it! As always I give you a hard time in jest. xD Though I want to believe the desk with the comics is Leonardo's. .... because I do. :|

lmao sounds legit

ashuriphoenix replied to your photo “��I’ll resist the urge to roast you, I know what it’s like to be super...”

I'm pretty much garbage to everyone rn, but it's either stay up and do something "semi-productive" or toss and turn for the exact amount of time it would take to do something "semi-productive". Sucks about the app, ma'am. :/ Are you using an Android? I don't get pop-ups using the app on an iPhone, even when away from the ad-blocking firewall at home.

yes I’m pretty much always on my android phone. Sounds miserable though, how much longer do you have left? D:

kittythesnowcat replied to your photoset “Why don’t we do this more often?” he murmured, sleepy and satiated. ...”

hmm fluffy

Fluffy is the best :>

lifeasasim replied to your photo “@declarations-of-drama wait… what? I’m sorry, I’m really confused....”

Hahahhahahahaha omg ��

lmao XD

declarations-of-drama replied to your photo “@declarations-of-drama wait… what? I’m sorry, I’m really confused....”

Ha! I'm here for the screenshots and to see pics of the game I love - but don't get me wrong, Glen (hubby) is hairy, but werewolves would make me itch being next to one :D

ashuriphoenix replied to your photoset “The sheer satisfaction he got from conquering her would last him a few...”

It's so nice to see werewolves in other games with ass fur. xD

bwahahaha no bare cheeks here!

ashuriphoenix replied to your post “Note to self: i need to go through and raid procrasimnation’s...”

what good are you :[

None :[

ashuriphoenix replied to your photo “@declarations-of-drama wait… what? I’m sorry, I’m really confused....”

Completely the same, here. If my husband got rid of his body hair I would disown him. Or at least not talk to him for a week. xD

rofl I get disgruntled when he shaves off his beard. I remember the first time he did, he came into the living room and my exact words were, “what did you DO?”

willky12 replied to your photo “@declarations-of-drama wait… what? I’m sorry, I’m really confused....”

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snark Scroll down to definition 7, I love this Ryan guy hahaha!

lmfao thanks for that, it was perfect xD

nornities replied to your photoset “Lago Simiore is fucking gorgeous part 1”

:-D

owly-sims replied to your photoset “That’s not how bears fish– oh, nevermind. “Well maybe it’ll make good...”

That bear's pretty impressive if he can use tools. :o

ikr?? A very special magical bear xD

ashuriphoenix replied to your photoset “That’s not how bears fish– oh, nevermind. “Well maybe it’ll make good...”

All I can think of is you getting the audio of a female sim, but here's this bear...

xD don’t think about it too hard

declarations-of-drama replied to your photoset “That’s not how bears fish– oh, nevermind. “Well maybe it’ll make good...”

HAHAHA!!!!!

willky12 replied to your post “willky12 answered your question “It’s a good thing I’m going to the...”

Simguru Graham did a good tutorial on the Seasonal Lot Marker, even I could follow it ;-)

Thanks! I looked for a tutorial and I’ve gotten started on a seasonal lot. It’s not too hard ^^

nornities answered your question “It’s a good thing I’m going to the library this morning because i have...”

Apart from the obvious (witches broom arena thing, mysterious glens with strange plants in it, ruins, apothecary shops with arcane potions and stuff, graveyards and parks and fishing spots) I guess you could have a museum for all the findings of the

That’s a good idea, I was half considering what to do about a museum. I think I will make a geology museum for their rocks and metal finds and make the art gallery/art studio one building and separate.

willky12 answered your question “It’s a good thing I’m going to the library this morning because i have...”

I like Gypsy caravans, fortune tellers, supernatural festivals that sort of thing, with lots of colour ;-)

Agreed!

ashuriphoenix replied to your photo “I like this rocking chair very much. Hm. I need a small table here to...”

The only thing this needs is more twerking.

That is highly illegal, I’m reporting you to the authorities.

ashuriphoenix replied to your photo “I like this rocking chair very much. Hm. I need a small table here to...”

Your game is illegal.

Yesh!

treason-and-plot replied to your photo “The bears take baths after they’re done gardening. They have le big...”

You could maybe use the debug enabler to make a wooden duck lulz

The thought had crossed my mind!

treason-and-plot replied to your photoset “How do you see this playing out?” Hara asked as she watched him line...”

I concur!��

xD you guys want him to lose his hand!

owly-sims replied to your photo “The bears take baths after they’re done gardening. They have le big...”

Maybe a medieval duck would be all pockmarked or something. You know, from the plague.

LOL! omg xD

ashuriphoenix replied to your photoset “While I have to concede that you have a point,” Hara leaned down a...”

FUMEY ONION!!

XD DID I STUTTER?!

simblu replied to your photo “The bears take baths after they’re done gardening. They have le big...”

It woudnt' be so bright? Maybe it would look made of felted wool or some such? Love the bear pix.

hehe thanks! I agree, it would be some natural material and more earthy colors.

sims3hasstoppedworking replied to your photoset “How do you see this playing out?” Hara asked as she watched him line...”

Lmfao grab that ass, my boy

Pffft ahahaha you are not a fan of him surviving this chapter, I see

ashuriphoenix replied to your photo “The bears take baths after they’re done gardening. They have le big...”

Maybe with a helmet. xD

o_O

willky12 replied to your photo

Mine normally get hit by lightning haha!

lmao I was really surprised it didn’t happen! Maybe she’s just lucky.

ashuriphoenix replied to your photo

Somehow illegal, a bear with a kite.

xD muahahahaha I live to trigger you

kittythesnowcat replied to your photo

Ah an axe throwing range^^

Indeed!

lifeasasim replied to your post “I need a Wednesday Addams dress for teens. Has anyone seen a dress… or...”

Kinda similar ^

Thank you for all the links!

”twinsimskeletons replied to your photo “They didn’t mind the altar flames and caught the room on fire. ...”

that seems very close to getting roast bear

a little too close for comfort I think

ashuriphoenix replied to your photo “They didn’t mind the altar flames and caught the room on fire. ...”

I can't.

They’re a damn mess xD

willky12 replied to your photo “Trying to make friends with their less than friendly horse. The horse...”

smart horse hahaha!

XD I wouldn’t want to be friends with the bear either.

simblu replied to your photo “Trying to make friends with their less than friendly horse. The horse...”

yay..the bear returns!

rofl I like them too much to let it go too long without posting them!

ashuriphoenix replied to your photo “There’s a lot of this every day. Fuzzy doesn’t like the garden too...”

Omg extorting his harem. This game makes me smile it's so wrong. xD

rofl me too. It’s the best thing xD

caterpillarsims replied to your photo “There’s a lot of this every day. Fuzzy doesn’t like the garden too...”

no wine for lazy bears!

lmao they have to work for their wine!

willky12 replied to your photo “Fluffy managed a spell that didn’t backfire horribly! She made a frog...”

Clever bear ;)

xD yeah.... she has her moments

willky12 replied to your post “I need a Wednesday Addams dress for teens. Has anyone seen a dress… or...”

Seen one for a child but not a teen. But if I see something will let you know.

I think I have a few things that will work, thanks!

ashuriphoenix replied to your photo “Fluffy managed a spell that didn’t backfire horribly! She made a frog...”

There's coffee too, so she's got that going for her.

Which is nice :<

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dansnaturepictures · 4 years

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10 of my favourite pictures to take from 7th-13th June 2020 and recap of the week

As I stood looking at Marbled Whites butterflies and then Bee orchids at Stockbridge Down and then (briefly) Lakeside yesterday afternoon I had a thought. I didn’t want to take photos of them as I had taken pictures I was pretty proud of featuring the species only days before, albeit with the Marbled Whites yesterday I saw some unique image opportunities to the ones at Lakeside on Tuesday so did try in the end but wasn’t quite fast enough to take them before the butterflies flew. But the thought was that it didn’t seem like they were only days ago like it normally would as with working from home even on in places greyer and wetter days of late I am just producing so many images on daily walks and more. So if its like this for me a high turnover meaning images taken in the week proceeding this Saturday felt like ones from ages ago I dread to think what its like for my social media mutuals! More Twitter than Tumblr but I think similarly I do have such a high turnover at the moment. This isn’t a thought that worries me too much, I always console myself that they’ll always be churn I just can’t help it.

For Twitter especially a picture I take on a Sunday afternoon when life is normal I’m working all week perhaps in winter and then I don’t take another or don’t upload any old pictures for whatever reason until the following Saturday is always going to get an advantage being at the top of my profile and displayed in the six most recent images on the profile for longer than a photo taken the Wednesday of a week I’m off work say and am producing 10s of photos every day. Its just that every week feels like this at the moment, I have reasons when working from home to keep my finger off my camera button a bit here and there but mostly related to the subsequent processing of them clashing with things in evenings. But I’ve long realised whilst in these very weird times I am so lucky to be able to safely get out and walk in a varied, biodiverse and beautiful country park on my doorstep. I’ve also been extremely lucky of late with restrictions easing to safely get back to some of the more normal for us weekend walks we have been able to do and in many cases take unprecedented amounts of pictures for me on days really seeing amazing wildlife as well.

One way I’ve perhaps tried to give photos a chance to stick around a bit is by keeping my system of pinning my most interacted with new photo or wildlife sighting tweet to my profile each week, instead of it being just out of what I took at the weekend out of every photo taken the week prior. This week especially will be an exciting one to pick because all across social media but especially Twitter I seem to have had so many people interacting with my photos this week notably which has been happening more and more for a while really so I am so so grateful for that. A huge thank you to everyone for doing that, whether you’re a regular friend of mine on here or not. Seeing people interact even in a small way makes posting my photos so much more worthwhile. But this weekend I had the idea, a bit like one of my picks which I occasionally do where I either tweet what was my favourite photo to take that week or do a post on here with the context of that photo, to do this post. One big reason being doing the pick perhaps more regularly would help give photos that are maybe a bit lost in the crowd another chance to be seen as my photo of the week system which this replaced in 2017 did but the past week unlike the one before it there were too many standout photos (I hope I don’t seem big headed saying that) from different themes which every one of these tweets has to have now so it would be too time consuming to pick one. So below are captions to each pictures in order of appearance in this photoset, with a little bit about the day and if anyone is interested a link to the blog post I did on the night...

1. Common Tern at Pennington on Sunday, a great day to kick off this week with a variety of birds seen it really was a top late spring day of New Forest birding at a site I love so much and missed a lot in the stricter days of lockdown, including key year ticks my first Little Ringed Plover and Eider Ducks of the year.

2. A dramatic landscape at Pennington also that day

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3. Young Goldfinch in the garden on Monday, alongside a lovely Lakeside walk around the lakes with my Dad at a 2 metre distance under the current restrictions a key moment from Monday was seeing and finally getting to photograph another adorable young bird in the garden with this Goldfinch.

https://dansnaturepictures.tumblr.com/post/620383808053739520/08062020-spider-from-my-last-night-in-my-room

4. Meadow Brown at Lakeside Country Park on Tuesday, one of my best days of butterfly watching this year thanks to a sweet 45 minutes or so at Lakeside characterised in part by a notable amount of these butterflies opening their wings which I don’t often see giving picture opportunities.

5. Marbled White at Lakeside also on Tuesday, the key part of my working week really after a few lunch times of looking in the area I am so used to seeing them in at this country park and that I nickname after them I was over the moon to come across this one it was a wonderful natural moment a key part of my year and felt like one of my best days for butterfly photographs in a week that had three of my best so far I feel all of which are in this post.

https://dansnaturepictures.tumblr.com/post/620477036347129856/09062020-flowers-and-marbled-white-and-more-on

6. Bee orchid at Lakeside on Wednesday, just metres from where the Marbled White was taken this day was very different with showers up until half way through my lunch break, by which point I stretched the legs at Lakeside after eating lunch and seeing this amazing wildflower which I photographed a bit further along in the walk last month with my macro and being able to capture it with raindrops still fresh with my big lens the only one I had on me was one of my greatest natural and beautiful moments this week.

https://dansnaturepictures.tumblr.com/post/620568869335105536/showery-wednesday-10th-june-2020-starlings

7. View at Lakeside that peaceful evening, Thursday was another wet and stormy this time day where garden birdwatching took a lot of focus to be honest as it did the latter half of this week as I didn’t know what quality of walks I’d get with showers for most of the afternoon and early evening, the lunch time one wasn’t very eventful that day but I did have a peaceful evening one as it got dry which this view summed up really.

https://dansnaturepictures.tumblr.com/post/620660235307270144/thursday-11062020-thunderstorm-the-calm-after

8. Oxeye daisies at Lakeside, Friday, another evening walk after another wet lunch time one which I did this time get out to Lakeside on. This was another flower picture and another oyeye daisy picture I am happy with this year. The day belonged to moths though supported by butterflies with Yellow Shell seen on both walks alongside my first ever Burnet Companion on the evening walk which was a fantastic moment alongside Meadow Brown, another Marbled White and another Small Skipper like my first of the year there a week prior as it got brighter in the evening.

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9. Dark Green Fritillary at Stockbridge Down on Saturday, yesterday it was a butterfly classic for me at one of my favourite places to watch them headlined by this one of the next species I needed to see this year but another early sighting compared to previous years. We saw so many as well as other top species such as Small Blue (which I forgot to mention in my wildlife sightings summary yesterday!), Marbled White and Small Tortoiseshell. So many pictures taken yesterday too across wildlife, landscapes and flowers.

10. View at Common Marsh also on Saturday, with a call in at this nearby spot too it became a brilliant general wildlife day as I saw my first Sedge Warbler, Banded Demoiselle and Scarlet Tiger moth of 2020 too as well as loads of water birds.

https://dansnaturepictures.tumblr.com/post/620838370171666432/13062020-stockbridge-down-and-common-marsh-with

So there we are, another unforgettable week. I would add this is a one off right now and I don’t think I’ll be able to do this every week going forward. But if I get the time, maybe I will do now and again of a Sunday morning/early afternoon just so I know I am reflecting really. Thanks once again for your amazing and truly valued support!

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