A new year and a new beginning for the fabulous Soul Source photography thread. We've had so many fantastic contributions from so many members over two very long-running and very lengthy threads now, so it makes sense to start afresh.

For people who perhaps haven't contributed before, the idea is very simple: although the emphasis has been on nature/wildlife/flowers and scenic views, just post up and share pics you've taken of, well, just about anything.

Here's three from me, which were taken today in a small nature reserve behind Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Although it started out as a very clear and sunny afternoon, conditions changed very quickly and it became very overcast - and, I have to say, there was very little in the way of birdlife to see. Perhaps they'd all cleared off elsewhere as the place was pretty busy with people out burning off the Christmas calories.

 

Happy New Year!

 Monday at Low Force in Upper Teesdale, 20 minutes in the car 

Lots of these wee chaps out at the moment, which is great considering all the talk about their decline.

12 hours ago, suzannek said:

 Monday at Low Force in Upper Teesdale, 20 minutes in the car 

Suz. Looking fabulous. You live in a truly stunning part of the country.

Steve

7 hours ago, Steve Lane said:

Lots of these wee chaps out at the moment, which is great considering all the talk about their decline.

Steve. I,m assuming its a white tailed bumble bee but not my strong point insects. Lovely photographs, actually looks like the bee is asleep

Steve

This picture was taken recently and is believed to be the largest Great White shark ever photographed and is estimated to be over twenty feet in length.it dwarfs the divers. its a truly stunning and amazing creature

Edited July 20, 20168 yr by Winsford Soul

19 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Steve. I,m assuming its a white tailed bumble bee but not my strong point insects. Lovely photographs, actually looks like the bee is asleep

Steve

 

Don`t know much myself but this one`s a wild bumble-bee, very placid......not sure how to tell it`s sex or I would have got a little nearer, males don`t sting!

Our next door neighbour has a bee hive (Hive bees are small and have very little colour) and the other week while I was washing my car they all came out and swarmed together, like a giant cloud of noise, fascinating until a few of them decided I was trespassing and had to chase me off.....all anyone could see was a half naked nutter running and jumping whirling my shirt around like I was playing helicopters. I got stung on the eye-lid. 

 

All from our garden.........This one I took today, different kind of Bee.....looks more wasp-like.

Edited July 21, 20168 yr by Guest

Just found this little bu**ger eating away at my orange tree this afternoon!!

He has now been relocated to the garden wall..................... with a few leaves to chomp away on!

Eastern Black Swallowtail????

x

Edited July 21, 20168 yr by crazylegs

12 hours ago, crazylegs said:

Just found this little bu**ger eating away at my orange tree this afternoon!!

He has now been relocated to the garden wall..................... with a few leaves to chomp away on!

Eastern Black Swallowtail????

x

Yes, that's what it is, quite a variable species as a caterpillar and a butterfly, and not that common.  It's one I would have tried my best to help along by leaving him where he was feeding and hope he would pupate where I could watch.

Hey Dave

I did want to leave it but the orange tree is still a baby, so he is now lodging on an older tree and I am monitoring progress 

Can anyone help out with this mushroom/toadstool/funghi/dunnowhatthehell

Its growing under an hibiscus, its quite frail, but its not getting much sun under such a large bushy plant

Cant find info it and I'm quite concerned cause of Clyde (doggy)

Im sure someone on here can help out

x

Edited July 22, 20168 yr by crazylegs

3 hours ago, crazylegs said:

Hey Dave

I did want to leave it but the orange tree is still a baby, so he is now lodging on an older tree and I am monitoring progress 

Can anyone help out with this mushroom/toadstool/funghi/dunnowhatthehell

Its growing under an hibiscus, its quite frail, but its not getting much sun under such a large bushy plant

Cant find info it and I'm quite concerned cause of Clyde (doggy)

Im sure someone on here can help out

x

Well done, he should be OK in an older tree.  As for the fungi, I doubt whether Clyde would be interested in it, just pull it up, it's growing on the rotting vegetation from the hibiscus soil, and they thrive in the shade.  Identifying them is a minefield and I don't have a book that covers anywhere but the UK 

Bees and Hoverflies Safari, on the patch of thistles in our garden 

Something a little more suitable to the forum from me for a change ...

Can never quite seem to make just a straightforward box me ...

11 minutes ago, WoodButcher said:

Something a little more suitable to the forum from me for a change ...

Can never quite seem to make just a straightforward box me ...

Had one made for me a few years ago by Mark Clugston very similar in size. proper dovetail joints on the corners. With a little plaque inside with a nice inscription

Steve

Not long got in from fishing a match at Tarvin sands fishery near Chester. No pictures but had the pleasure of  helping weighing my mate John Hammonds catch. He has set a new fishery record beating the old one by 120LB . It now stands at a massive 281LB for a five hour match. .Jealous or what. I had a measly 25LB

Steve

28 minutes ago, WoodButcher said:

Something a little more suitable to the forum from me for a change ...

Can never quite seem to make just a straightforward box me ...

Wonderful - it must be incredibly heavy! Does it get lugged around much?

Not these days ...

Not that heavy , but no handles to make it awkward for anyone to make off with it ...

Edited July 23, 20168 yr by WoodButcher

Chuffed to get these two boys at a good price

Burbage common, paths freshly cut, golf course in distance. if you could bottle today's weather........

A Small Skipper

 

Edited July 24, 20168 yr by martyn pitt

4 hours ago, martyn pitt said:

A Small Skipper

 

Martyn. Stunning picture as always. 

Question. Was you stood up in tall grass or lay down in short grass to get the picture. ? You seem to be at eye level with it. 

You heading for Bury this weekend mate ?

Steve

12 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Martyn. Stunning picture as always. 

Question. Was you stood up in tall grass or lay down in short grass to get the picture. ? You seem to be at eye level with it. 

You heading for Bury this weekend mate ?

Steve

 

I was knelt down 

No to Bury 

Have another one for your cheek 

Been for a walk around Ciutadella today, had lunch by the old port and when we came home my new Hibiscus has flowered, love the colours!

x

Found this fellow on top of a light behind me in a taverna in Corfu, lucky enough to catch him/her feeding on flies etc attracted to the light

A first ever for Belvide, I suspect a fugitive on the lamb ... anyone missing a Peacock?

He was trying to hide on a bough across a pond, in the woods.

Did my Big Butterfly count and here are a few photos, taken mainly down my favourite woods, it is a wildlife haven. First two of Small Skippers; Small Tortoiseshell, Red Admiral and a Speckled Wood

Edited August 2, 20168 yr by suzannek

I took this stunning boy a male Common Blue Damselfly at Low Barns Nature Reserve at Witton le Wear

 

just a few pickies i got off the net if they work 

Well after twenty-odd years of being abused I thought it about time that my trusty chisels deserved a couple of decent cases , it'll be nice to have them all in one place for once ...

And as I had some very nice 100+ year old quarter-sawn oak waiting for the right moment and bundles of veneers kicking about I couldn't help but get a little carried away again , they'll no doubt get trashed on site soon enough but sometimes you just have to go the extra yard ...

And just in case you think I cheated ...

Edited August 4, 20168 yr by WoodButcher
Added photo.

Great work old chap....love those dovetails with the score lines left in...too good to use out though !!!!

14 minutes ago, Widnes63 said:

Great work old chap....love those dovetails with the score lines left in...too good to use out though !!!!

Nah , they'll soon be slung in the back of the motor and covered in s**t with everything else ...

5 BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT KIND...MY 5 LOVELY SISTERS  SORRY COULDN'T RESIST IT.

4 hours ago, Venus said:

5 BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT KIND...MY 5 LOVELY SISTERS  SORRY COULDN'T RESIST IT.

All looking gorgeous  . but I knew that already.

Steve. X

Ste what a smooth talker you are

On 8/4/2016 at 15:02, WoodButcher said:

Well after twenty-odd years of being abused I thought it about time that my trusty chisels deserved a couple of decent cases , it'll be nice to have them all in one place for once ...

And as I had some very nice 100+ year old quarter-sawn oak waiting for the right moment and bundles of veneers kicking about I couldn't help but get a little carried away again , they'll no doubt get trashed on site soon enough but sometimes you just have to go the extra yard ...

And just in case you think I cheated ...

I use mine for knocking tiles of walls these daysBeen a carpenter all my life and hate it with a passion.(too much housebashing)

Kitchen fitter now known as the Caister flatpacker

Edited August 6, 20168 yr by NCFC

Standing just now at Hoofddorp station waiting for a train into Amsterdam and heard the unmistakable cry of a peregrine. Looked up and spied two of them. Most unexpected!

A juvenile Marsh Harrier has been on the prowl for food most of the day, didn't see it catch anything so I expect he is getting peckish 

Edited August 7, 20168 yr by martyn pitt

Just returned from a fabulous long weekend in Porthmadog on the Llyn peninsular in North Wales. Will sort out a few pictures but here's one for now

Steve

 

Right....time for something a little less organic.

My December 1976 Kawasaki Z1000 which has been my little project for the last couple of years.....

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Zed1 said:

Right....time for something a little less organic.

My December 1976 Kawasaki Z1000 which has been my little project for the last couple of years.....

 

 

 

So that's where you have been hiding !!!!   Nice bike Gaz, looks brand new

6 minutes ago, Zed1 said:

Right....time for something a little less organic.

My December 1976 Kawasaki Z1000 which has been my little project for the last couple of years.....

 

 

 

Gaz. I,m sorry mate but I cant see GP 200 or SX 200 or TV 175 anywhere mate

Ste

18 minutes ago, Zed1 said:

Right....time for something a little less organic.

My December 1976 Kawasaki Z1000 which has been my little project for the last couple of years.....

 

 

 

Wow! Nice project mate. Well done.

Peter

11 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Gaz. I,m sorry mate but I cant see GP 200 or SX 200 or TV 175 anywhere mate

Ste

Owned an SX and LI back in the day Ste, but big Jap 4's were always my first love.

1 hour ago, Winsford Soul said:

Gaz. I,m sorry mate but I cant see GP 200 or SX 200 or TV 175 anywhere mate

Ste

Here you go, my SX 200 from 1970

 

Rick

12 hours ago, Rick Cooper said:

Here you go, my SX 200 from 1970

 

Rick

Thanks Rick. Only ever had Li 150,s. And I haven't any pictures unfortunately. I know there is some of me from my scooter days but don't see the lads or girls that I knocked about with  very often . Only seems to be at funerals these day.

Steve

These three pictures where taken a few miles inland from Shell island in Snowdonia. The 1st one doesn't really do the picture justice as I have climbed down onto a rocky ledge overlooking a fifteen metre drop into the raging waters. The 2nd one is pointing the camera upstream and the 3rd is taken of the view down the gorge.

Steve

Edited August 10, 20168 yr by Winsford Soul

Here's a few more sunsets . The 2nd one is a arty farty take on the 1st one . Deliberately moving the camera slightly as you press the shutter button.

Steve 

I was unfortunately about 15 minutes late to get the shots that I really wanted

Steve

Gorgeous views Ste.  Although I remember a time when you'd have preferred this one  ......

 

21 minutes ago, Zed1 said:

Gorgeous views Ste.  Although I remember a time when you'd have preferred this one  ......

 

Cheers Gaz. If only.

Without a doubt the greatest time of my life.

Ste

This picture was taken hand held with a slow shutter speed to create the milky effect of the water. All the waterfall pictures where taken at Nantcol waterfalls

Steve

Edited August 10, 20168 yr by Winsford Soul