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Monday, 15 September 2025

Getting Old

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 I reached the ripe old age of 88 a few days ago and learned the how difficult life becomes. I have forgotten just how difficult operating the computer is. My memory is virtually non exsistant and I struggle to do things, but I will struggle on.  I gave up driving a couple of weeks ago so my photography has become very limited. My foxes no longer visit after my disasterous two month stay in hospital at the beginning of the year. So there is not a lot I can do at the moment but I am working at it. In the meantime best  wishes to you all and thank you for the support over the years.

The picture is of a beautiful ornament birthday present from my good friends Des and Ann. It replaces the loss of the foxes to my garden.

Sunday, 18 May 2025

Apologies


 Please accept my sincere apologies for my absence from my blog. I have spent more than 2 months in hospital confined to bed and not knowing the reason why. During that time I received no treatment or saw a doctor, also the vitamins and such that help me live were not available. So I grew old very quickly.  I am no longer fit enough to drive my car so all my photos will be of visitors to my garden. I am at home now and having to start afresh. Wish me luck for I am starting anew.   Mike.


    

Friday, 9 August 2024

Plodding on

I am not so active as I used to be but the foxes do not let me down and visit me every night.  We have now got some noisy dogs next door which have upset some of the foxes and it ha taken some weeks for them to settle down again.

My  only trouble at the moment is getting my pictures onto the computer, I had to replace some of the system and what I was sold was nowhere near as good as my old system and I have had to learn all over again on how to use it. I shall master it if I have time.
 

Thursday, 4 July 2024

Hello again

 

Sorry for the delay in my blog but I have been fighting a vicious cough. I caught it around the start of June. During the month I kept my I on the foxes which turned up on time every evening often laying in the grass waiting for me. Feeling a lot better now I returned to the keyboard.
This shot shows just how much they trust me. This was taken from my window early one morning.

Tuesday, 28 May 2024

Waiting

Dad fox patiently waiting on my doorstep for me to open the window and get his supper.
 

Mike Attwood - Photographer

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Evacuated during the second world war to a village in Yorkshire where I lived in the home of a good photographer for more than five years who taught me the basics and a great deal about nature. Well past retirement age I have been a wildlife photographer for more than 30 years. Red Kites have been my speciality for much of this period. I did spend several years snapping wheelchair athletes and organizing the British Road Race Championship. In the year 2000 I was awarded a distinction by the Royal Photographic Society for my portfolio on wheelchair athletes. Most of my pics are digital, using Sony cameras and Sigma lenses. I used to spend many weeks each year with friends in Wales which is close to the Elan Valleys where I got many of my raptor pics. I now get these pictures more closely to home, specially red kites and peregrines. I support my pension by selling my pics, cards, coasters, fridge magnets and key rings etc. at craft fairs, something I wish I had done much earlier in life. I give illustrated talks to clubs and societies on wildlife and other branches of photography that I have been involved in.