Daniel N
Daniel N
Daniel N
I enjoy photography, thunderstorms, listening to the blues, and horror films. You might find me chasing storms across North America, hunting the aurora in the night sky, or on the coast during a wind storm.
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Last night we drove out to the coast with plans to try and capture lightning sprites from a forecasted MCS over the Netherlands. If the MCS went to plan, and we had clear skies in between us, then we should have been within ideal sprite...
The heat and humidity has been unbearable the last week. My back garden weather station has been recording 36c temperatures with dew points reaching 24c. For the UK that is ridiculous. It's actually quite unbearable at times but if it...
A nearly severe thunderstorm approaching Swindon, UK yesterday. I say nearly as I didn't see any hail, notice any strong wind gusts or read any reports to suggest otherwise. For a 'homegrown' UK storm it had a brief but somewhat...
I took a gamble on some Noctilucents reappearing last night with a 40 minute drive out to the coast, and then a 20 minute walk to find a clear view of the Northern horizon. There is never any guarantee the clouds will show up, but I have...
Luckily it was too warm to sleep last night, as I'm not sure I would have made the effort to go see these storms otherwise. These are distant thunderstorms near Lille in France. That's at least 150 miles to my South East, so I'm quite...
Last night (June 9th), at around 11pm, I had my first sighting of the elusive Noctilucent clouds for 2026. Not the brightest or longest display, though I'll happily take it. I'm not sure I have the motivation for the ~02:30 displays, but...
A very enjoyable day spent dodging the rain and shooting the drifting action from the Gassed on Track event at Silverstone. This is part three (of three), part one images can be viewed here and part two, here. Images shot with OM1-II,...
A very enjoyable day spent dodging the rain and shooting the drifting action from the Gassed on Track event at Silverstone. This is part two (of three), part one images can be viewed on this post Images shot with OM1-II, 40-150 f/2.8 &...
A very enjoyable day spent dodging the rain and shooting the drifting action from the Gassed on Track event at Silverstone. Images shot with OM1-II, 40-150 f/2.8 & MC-14.
Just as I was heading home I found this young ball of fluff happily sleeping on a branch out in the open, seemingly without a care in the world. It was content to sit here for a good five minutes or so before it was inevitably disturbed...
Today I captured A Sailor Beetle, A Four-spotted Plant Bug(?) and A Yellow Dung Fly. These aren't macro images, I don't actually own a macro lens, but my 40-150mm lets me get reasonably close. It was a little tricky to get these in...
This is probably just an oversight on my part, but for anybody who may not have noticed when using the Bear editor to upload images, they are converted and resized to the webp format. There appears to be some loss of quality and image...
I spent a good two-three hours wandering around the local reservoir with my daughter this afternoon and I think she may have become my wildlife lucky charm. She helped me spot a greater variety of wildlife than I'd seen on my last few...
I've never appreciated 21c and a North Sea breeze more than I did this morning. After the last few days of excessive heat and humidity, getting to sit outside with a cup of tea at 8am and being able to blink without sweating was...