Andrew Trundlewagon's photos

Winter morning, Brighton Seafront.

Leeds Castle in Kent, UK.

A temporary seasonal display, the 'Cercle Polaire", Place Ville Marie, Montreal with polar bears and penguins (although no real polar bear has come near a penguin except in a zoo).

Two forms of chalcedony; the top rock is mammillated chalcedony I found on a building site in Aylesbury in the UK. The white patina on the core is intriguing as it changes colour with the weather. When it is humid it becomes bluer, but it is white when the weather is dry. I have not been able to learn the chemistry behind this. The lower stone is banded agate, which is also a kind of chalcedony and which I bought in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Ok I got up here, now how do I get down? A tightrope walker from the local Christmas market.

Hawthorn trees laden with dark red berries, South Downs, Sussex. Guess which way the wind blows? "........when, like an eyelid's soundless blink, The dewfall-hawk comes crossing the shades to alight Upon the wind-warped upland thorn, a gazer may think, "To him this must have been a familiar sight." (Thomas Hardy, Afterwards),

Witch hazel; unusual in flowering much later in the year (November) than other plants when everything else is dormant. The brown structure is a seed capsule from the previous year. The seeds are shot out of the capsule and can be propelled over many metres from the parent.

A stormy sunset on Brighton seafront.

A well-hidden toad in the leaf litter.

Not our cat, a visitor to the garden showing great interest in anything that moves (squirrels, birds etc.).

A robin, Sussex.

The Royal Pavilion in Brighton, Sussex, taken from the gardens in the rear. Started in 1787 for the Prince Regent, who became king George IV (1811), and later extended (1815).

The Palace Pier, Brighton, Sussex, late October. A late Victorian amusement pier opened in 1899 to replace an earlier structure, the Chain pier, that collapsed in 1896.

Lost in Kent. Which way to go?

Blue butterfly

View to the sea across South Downs, Sussex. October.

A Bumble bee asleep in a hollyhock flower and covered in pollen

We had a power cut recently which proved an ideal opportunity to play around with candle light.