Thoughts, ideas & musings… – Page 3

detail of nepenthes trap tube and peristome

All things bright and beautiful…

ByKit October 17, 2020

... and so totally weird! I love nature and have always had an interest in plants (I still have my Junior Royal Horticultural Society membership cards from when they existed!). Carnivorous plants in particular fascinate me. The way they have evolved to catch insects, the different forms and mechanisms for doing so. And when you...

smart phone being used to research information in a museum

Bring your own device (BYOD) for learning in schools

ByKit October 16, 2020May 20, 2025

The central idea of BYOD is that individuals use the technology that they bring with them to school or college. The school or college does not need to provide the computers, tablets, smartphones for individuals to use in class, just supply the environment that allows users to use their technology collaboratively or just for individual use.

Young girl leaping to touch a fairy flying above her. Forest setting with standing stones.

People | Photography | Photoshop | Portrait

Butterfly to fairy

ByKit September 23, 2020

I'm often just photographing events as they happen on family day trips. You could say most of my photography practice comes from this sort of candid photography. As it was here, posted below, one of a sequence of images I caught of a friends daughter totally absorbed in chasing a rather elusive butterfly :-) It...

Dragon Eggs!

ByKit September 19, 2020May 24, 2025

I like dragons. And love seeing how children engage in make-believe. This was very much a personal project, taking advantage of an opportunity that arose from a trip to a local play area, Dinton Pastures, with friends. One of the play parts at Dinton is a wide hollow in the ground with huge wooden eggs…

Young boy walking with splashes along the shore line shallow water

Nature | Photography

“Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside…”

ByKit September 17, 2020

Beaches are fun and I love them for the variety of patterns you can find along the shoreline through the interaction of sand, water, wind and tide and often quite varied along the same stretch of coastline. The ripples, rivulets, all adding to the patterns. They also make great backgrounds and this collection of patterns...

Nature | Photography

Frozen Fire

ByKit September 13, 2020

There's a beauty to nature I often find others miss, be it patterns in the ground, sky, rocks, plants, or the transient, constantly moving, living, dynamic force to be seen in fire and water. With the latter, because it is constantly moving and often a very transient, it's too fast for our eyes to capture....

Photography | Wedding

What to look for a in wedding photographer

ByKit August 20, 2020

Thinking about or looking for a wedding photographer and wondering what you should be looking for? Particularly as there are so many out there and of course just so many individuals with a camera nowadays. Love their images: In some ways, the most obvious thing is to like them and the type of images they...

Nature | Photography

Brighter side to bad weather

ByKit August 19, 2020

Can't say I'm fond of being out in rain, but it does water the garden and presents the opportunity to find some lovely images. Today was no exception rain wise and finding the droplets of water all over the seeds heads of Stipa Gigantea. [pm_vc_grid images="2181,2182,2183" items_in_row="3"]

Nature | Uncategorised

Textures

ByKit August 17, 2020

Don't know about you, but I love textures. I can be shooting a wedding and notice some fabulous detail on the dress or out for a walk and see patterns or randomness that just looks pleasant or interesting. Could be a patch of sand, sea, water, ground, fire, sky, trees, bark, leaves, plants, flowers, etc,...

Nature

Comet watching

ByKit August 16, 2020

The UK is not exactly known for lots of clear skies and good views of the sky are worse when like me you face a fair amount of light pollution from living in an urban area like mine as well as a fair amount of obstruction of the open sky by surrounding buildings. So I...