The Return of the Snowdrops…
It is always nice to see the snowdrops breaking through. The end of the winter is coming thank goodness!

It is always nice to see the snowdrops breaking through. The end of the winter is coming thank goodness!
Where the bees and butterflies hang out…
What a bunch of pathetic lickspittles! All dried up and nowhere to go but OUT with the trash!
You don’t get more Scottish than this!
Rose hips grow everywhere here in Scotland at this time of year…
The Woods Today – Richard Broom Photography
Well, we are in Scotland!
It would appear Percy Thrower is channeling through my videos…
Always good to turn one of these over…
More Photoshop Neural Filter sculduggery..(digital doodling).
It’s clever how nature unpacks itself. Brilliant engineering…
Join me for a walk in the woods close to Duff House in Banff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
It was the colour that caught my eye..
If you go down to the woods today….
We’re firmly back in Scotland!
Coming to get you!
A few more flowers and other wild things for you to enjoy…
My Latin is non-existent!
Well, you do have to admit….
It must be Spring in the UK..
Can you spot the bug?
Grantown-on-Spey in the Cairngorms.
They are here to get you! Be afraid!
Still having fun with the new Texture Slider in Adobe Camera RAW. It’s a fun tool and it worked well on the flower below. I love taking photographs of flowers with a very narrow depth of field – it makes the flower pop out of the background. The new texture slider gives the image a bit of extra pop!
The veins (?) in the leaf look like a city roadmap.
Sue tells me that, whilst the plant/weed shown in the first image below looks like a stinging nettle, it isn’t and you would not be stung if you touched it. I will not be testing this hypothesis. If it looks like a stinging nettle, then it will sting you. I apply the same logic to snakes. If it is a snake, it is poisonous!
For comparison purposes, the image at the bottom of this post is a stinging nettle.
I am sure somebody will know what kind of plant (weed?) this is. Spotted near Monnickendam (Netherlands) today. Almost like some kind of alien creature!
A slightly more fragrant post than the last one!
The Ball Chucker
Please click HERE to visit my Adobe Spark page for the Hortus Botanicus (botanical gardens in Amsterdam). When you get to the page, please just keep scrolling down…
The Hortus Botanicus is one of the most peaceful places in the bustling and vibrant city of Amsterdam.
The Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam
The Butterfly
The Buds
The Bug
The Stump
The Hint of Spring
The Leaf
Even more fooling around with Reflector. Â I should really be doing something more useful!
The Leaves Of Many Colours
I don’t know the name of this one either. Â Many things but not a botanist!
The Blue Flower
Another flower I don’t know the name of:
The Pink Job
I didn’t notice the ants when taking the photography. Not sure what they’re doing!
The Marching Ants
Some images from the forest coming up shortly:
Nuts, Berries and Leaves from Richard Broom on Vimeo.
The Blue Flower
The White Flower
More insect pornography!
The Sex Fest on a Thistle
Promiscuous beetles seen today having open air sex. Â Even threesome sex! Â What little tinkers they are!
The Orgy
One I haven’t seen before:
The New Flower
The Flowers
They are not bananas but look a bit like them…
The Banana Pods
The Meeting
I could be wrong but I think this is a Red Admiral…
The Butterfly
Tom very kindly corrected me. This is not a bee, it’s a hover fly!
The Not Bee!
The Early Hazelnut
Now surely this must have come straight out of the the film Alien by Ridley Scott
The Ridley Scott Plant
I apologise deeply for sweeping away centuries of botanic and taxonomic research when I rename these flowers with my own (silly) name. Â But you do have to admit, they look a little bit like lightbulbs!
The Light Bulb Flower
The Blackberries Are Coming!
The Prickly Jobs
No other way to describe it!
The Complicated Flower
The Spiky Pods
The Splash of Red
The Bee and the Thistle
A mixture of soft and delicate flowers and fearsome spikes! Armoured flowers!
The Spiky Mix