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
 A day visiting two locations one to see some Ermine Moths on a tree in Cobtree Manor Park in Maidstone and then to Queendown Warren Nature Reserve to try out my 18-200 lens that we'd just picked up from being repaired. As always it was a day of finding lots of intersting subjects to take pictures of. |
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 Another day spent in the Chilterns area when I found one Military orchid still in flower and also had great views of Red Kites above Watlington Hill. |
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 I had the chance to spend some time in the Chilterns area, I enjoyed the day despite dodging some heavy showers while visiting Hartslock and Warburg Nature Reserves in Oxfordshire. |
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 Knowing the local nature reserves and areas for watching wildlife like I do I knew that visiting all the places we did today would bring us some close and good encounters with wildlife and by the end of the day we felt quite privileged to be allowed to get close to the creatures we had. |
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 I had looked forward to doing this, the fifth walk to include part of the Royal Military Canal, for a long time as it starts in the village of Hamstreet and visits part of the nature reserve of Ham Street woods. The whole walk was really enjoyable from start to finish. |
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 A day which started with two invites to BBQ's the first in the village of Elham promoting the work done in local woodlands for butterflies and encouraging us to buy locally produced charcoal. It was a good excuse too for a walk out of the village of Elham which sits in a very picturesque valley. |
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 It had been many weeks since we’d done one of the walks including the Royal Military Canal but with the promise of a good forecast and a free day we set off to park in the village of Aldington and soon started on our walk of 9½ miles. |
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Recent Albums
13th June,Ermine Moths in Cobtree Manor Park & Bee Orchids at Queendown Warren.
11th June, Military Orchids and Red Kites in the Chilterns
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