mitch mcfarlane photography

04/06/2024

Blossoms 🌸🌸 I love blossoms they are so pretty and a sign of something new to come. According to the info on my phone this is plum, but I will have to wait until autumn to find out 😂

29/05/2024

The common bluebell…one of my favourite flowers.

Did you know they have also been called cuckoo’s boots, lady’s nightcap and witches thimbles!

And in folklore it is said that if you hear a bluebell ring you will be visited by a bad fairy and have bad luck, and if you pick a bluebell you will be led astray by the woodland fairies and wander most forever 🧚🏻‍♂️🧚

16/05/2024

I have recently been trying to get back into a bit of editing. I really love the painterly look, so I have been experimenting a bit with this portrait of Fleur 🦄 I hope you like it 😊

15/02/2024

A day late with my Valentine’s Day post 😂. But here’s 2 lovely ponies having a cute moment ❤️

26/12/2023

Lovely free roaming Fell pony living a wonderful life on the Fells of Cumbria. The Fell ponies grow wonderful thick manes and also sometimes a big moustache like this one (zoom in to see it properly)🐴🥰

20/12/2023

These lovely Welsh Carneddau ponies have an amazing view across the Atlantic from their mountain home high up in Snowdonia.

13/12/2023

01/12/2023

A beautiful grey Carneddau pony from my last visit to Wales this summer.

These wonderful small (nearly) wild ponies. They have lived there for 100’s if not 1000’s of years without any other horses or ponies being brought in and so have remained pure and genetically unique. They have very minimal interference from humans, being rounded up just once a year for checks and given supplementary feed in the worst of the winter. It’s a wonderful and peaceful place 🐴🐴🐴.

27/11/2023

Up in the Carneddau mountains of North Wales live these wonderful small (nearly) wild ponies. They have lived there for 100’s if not 1000’s of years without any other horses or ponies being brought in and so have remained pure and genetically unique. They have very minimal interference from humans, being rounded up just once a year for checks and given supplementary feed in the worst of the winter. It’s a wonderful and peaceful place 🐴🐴🐴.

24/11/2023

Here is my take on

I would rather look at a black horse than look at all those Black Friday ‘deals’ trying to get me to spend money!

23/04/2023

Here is what I thought was an English bluebell, but I now think it is a Spanish bluebell or maybe a hybrid of the 2.

Bluebells are a well loved flower found mostly in the UK and often in ancient woodland. They symbolise humility, constancy, gratitude and everlasting love.

They have been called many different names in folklore, for example cuckoos boots, lady’s nightcap and witches thimbles !

Many myths and superstitions also surround bluebells, such as people used to believe witches used them in potions 🧙🏻‍♀️. It is also said that if you heard a bluebell ring you would be visited by a bad fairy and die soon after and if you picked one you would be led astray by fairies and wander lost forever 🧚‍♀️