 Welcome to JillBatchelor.com
I have wanted to be able to have my own website for a long while, and finally took the plunge earlier this year. With many thousands of photographs going back several years I wanted to share them with a wider audience, and hence this website was born. I have been adding lots of images to my Gallery, and writing about my photography trips in my Journal.
I have worked hard to strike a balance between creating a useful resource for photographers, nature lovers, and those who simply enjoy looking at beautiful images. I hope that some of the background information that I have sought to include will help provide some insight, without being too technical. Jill.
 The weather during most of the autumn had really been very disappointing but I came to the conclusion if I didn’t get out looking for some of those fabulous autumn colours even if the weather wasn’t ideal they would all be gone till next year. I decided a visit to the picturesque Sheffield park a garden laid out by Capability Brown may well be worth it even though the best of the autumn colour was already finished |
 We are lucky that living where we do that there are quite a lot of different woods where we can walk although I most often end up at East Blean woods. Instead of walking where we usually do though we decided that a walk in Church Wood which is just outside Canterbury would make a nice change. We know in the past it can be good for autumnal colours too. We really are struggling with the weather being very sunny at all right now which if all those yellows and golds are to really shine out is what is needed. |
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 When we were on a recent visit to Great Dixter on the 21st September we also made a visit to the delightful town of Rye in East Sussex as its only 7 miles from that wonderful garden. We always love to visit this very picturesque town because it like stepping back in time as you walk around the cobbled streets and enjoy looking in the numerous gift shops that all seem to stock different things. There are also plenty art and photo galleries and to give you a chance to relax and decide just what it is you would like to buy there are plenty of coffee shops and tea rooms to relax in too. |
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 Now there are many of us that really don’t like zoos and I’m sure a lot of us have memories of visiting zoos and seeing some very unhappy looking animals in the past. There is a zoo, or as it refers to itself a wild animal park, just outside Canterbury called Howletts that is certainly a very different place to the traditional zoo. You often read of zoos who aim to breed endangered animals and then reintroduce the animals into the wild and wonder if they ever succeed. Howletts and its sister park at Port Lympne are such places and do just that. The Aspinall Foundation has successfully reintroduced Western Lowland Gorilla, Black Rhinoceros, Sumatran Rhinoceros and Przewalski’s Horse back into the wild. |
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Recent Albums
11th November Sheffield Park
2nd Nov, Church Wood
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