Welcome to JillBatchelor.comI have wanted to be able to have my own website for a long while and finally took the plunge in 2008. With many thousands of photographs going back several years I wanted to share them with a wider audience and hence the website was born. You will find lots of images in my gallery and I write about my photography days out in my journal. I have tried hard to strike a balance between creating a useful resource for photographers, nature lovers and those who simply enjoy looking at beautiful images. In my quest to improve my photography skills I’ve learnt a few tricks along the way and include a few of these in my journal entries.
I hope you enjoy your visits and return to see what I get up to. Jill
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 An evening of of fun and games as we all join in with a murder mystery evening.
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 A short walk from Dalmunzie Castle hoping that gaining some height would afford us some better views of the surrounding hills.
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 Today was a very special day for us: the wedding of our eldest son James to Olivia at Dalmunzie Castle in Perthshire. A stunning location for a wedding. It truly was a memorable day.
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 We enjoyed a short walk on the cliff-top path today; really so we could see somewhere we walk fairly regularly looking very different in the snowy conditions. The weather sadly was very overcast so it wasn’t going to make for exciting pictures but considering the conditions I think my new camera coped very well.
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 We have lived in Sandwich for 25years and in all that time I have never known as much snow to fall and lay as it has done over the last 24 hours. Coinciding with this I also had a new camera, a Nikon D90, which I was itching to try out. So once it finally stopped snowing I was keen to get out and give it its first test run.
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 We visit the Oare Marshes nature reserve quite regularly as it’s one of our favourite places to go birdwatching. From autumn to spring in particular it’s a great place to see overwintering wildfowl and waders. As today was a lovely, sunny winter Sunday we decided to visit, but rather than try to park on the busy site we parked at Oare village and walked alongside Oare Creek to reach the nature reserve.
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 After the winter wonderland on Saturday this was perhaps a more authentic winter walking experience. Brooding skies, knee-deep snowdrifts and a strong wind blowing spindrift into our faces made for an exhilarating walk up Mellbreak. Many thanks to Roger (and Harry and Bethan) for guiding us along paths that were seldom obvious, but always fun to follow. |
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Murder Mystery Evening at Dalmunzie Castle
Short walk from Dalmunzie Castle
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