Jon Bird

20/01/2026

Shot, obviously, at Battersea Power Station, last year when the estate played host to a number of art installations.
I was trying to but failed to get the Iron Mans hands to fit within the two tower walls. I didn't have the right lens with me or the space. Plus far too many people trying to do a similar think!

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For those that don't recognise the building, this is Battersea Power Station in London and a shot I captured about a year ago when they had various art pieces installed around and within the building, which is now a shopping centre. I wanted to be able to get each hand positioned so it looked as if....

22/12/2025

Something a little festive but without breaking my nature theme. These are Chinese Lanterns plucked from a front garden, with the owners consent, and taken home for a little table top studio try out.

With plastic tinsel, glass ball balls and electric lights we decorate our homes at this festive time of year, but nature has provided these wonderful, delicately intricate, little bringers of joy. I spotted these in a front garden on a walk down to town and as I lent over the chain link fence the ow...

19/12/2025

An old one of the wrecks at Pin Mill. Recent pictures I've seen a lot has changed with the old hulls.
Obviously I've done a fair bit of work to this image to remove the far bank and distractions in the foreground making a much less cluttered image.

From my only trip, so far, to pin mill lock. It was a few years ago now and from recent photo's I've seen of the wrecks, time has taken its toll. For anyone that's been there you will know, the background to this shot has been worked on. I've dropped in another sky from one of my other images and re...

15/10/2025

Three's a Crowd

That's not just in my post today but also refers to this now being my third fungi post I put on Instagram in a row. But I make no apology, it is that time of year and I like them.

Again this one looks as if it may have been shot indoors but was in fact out in the forest. Using a wide open aperture gives that nice plain diffused background and out of focus foreground and then using a couple of small lights on the mushrooms means the background goes dark and the fruits stand out and reveal their detail.

21/08/2025

This is an image and the text I added to Instagram a couple of weeks back. Likes doubled, views rocketed. Was it that much better/ different to my usual posts, was is my criticism?

"A Moment in the Spotlight

That's the way I feel about my account on Instagram. I seem to attract new followers that then just ghost me. Like the sun they move on and perhaps never again light up my little patch.

My following increases, the appreciation decreases!!

I'm pleased to say though that amongst my followers there are those that regularly like and comment and for that I thank you.

So to those that begin to follow my account the clue is "social" media. If you expect me to follow back, show some appreciation, don't drop me as soon as I follow back."

04/07/2025

Water

Ever moving, searching for a path. Creeping into the tiniest of cracks and filling the largest hollows.
It brings life but will destroy, it shapes and builds. Without it, life as we know it can't survive but it's only alive in the way it moves.

03/07/2025

The Little Things

Sometimes it's the little things in life that are the most important.

This tiny Hover fly goes about it's job with very little recognition but without it fore filling its little piece in natures plan, larger gaps would appear and in the fullness of time holes.

This shot was captured in a wild flower meadow specially planted for the pollinators.

Our human world is the same. Someone has to do the small menial tasks, with little reward. So remember to show them our appreciation, a please and thank you can go a long way and without someone doing these tasks society suffers.

30/06/2025

Shade

In this unusually hot and sunny June, the forest has provided welcome shade. Once forests protected so much of our land from the baking sun and trapped moisture in the ground.

Our concrete jungles just heat our surroundings and any rain that does fall runs mainly into the drainage system and does little to quench the ground.

Planning is beginning to catch up with roof top gardens and more tree planting on large scale projects but we all have to look at our gardens and drives we you have our responsibilities.

25/06/2025

31/03/2025

Spring Blossom

It's a glorious bright but just a little fresh day here in the Southeast of the UK, and many of the trees and bushes are in bloom, daffodils line the verges and tulips are beginning to open up.

So I've left the dark woods to bring a glimpse of the colour of spring

25/03/2025

Calling the Spring

Recent thing of the trees and clearing of the forest floor is allowing more of the warming spring sunshine to pe*****te through.

I'm hoping this will mean the emergence of spring growth, wild flowers and ferns.

21/03/2025

Wood Squill (Scilla Siberica)

Still not a Bluebell but easily mistaken from a distance before the flowers have totally opened.

The Scilla Siberica is actually native to southwestern Russia, the Caucasus and Turkey, not the woods of Essex. I actually spotted this in the grave yard of my local church while out on Wednesday searching for my first Bluebell. Spotting a large patch of these around one particular grave you can understand why they caught my eye.

The second image is a Bluebell plant growing in the moss covered roots of a tree. As yet no flower stem but the woods are full of such plants just waiting for a few more warmer days.