A curious Belted Galloway, in the New Forest
new forest
Mulching Saplings
Helping to suppress the grass which will give the saplings the best chance of flourishing.
Panoramic View – Rockford Common
This was a picture I took volunteering last summer. It’s taken me a while to get round to building the panorama. It works out at 11448 x 4595 pixels. Lightroom has done a brilliant job combining the pictures.
Don’t mess with a chainsaw
I’m lucky enough to be able to use a chainsaw in my volunteering activities. I’ve not got round to carving toadstools though, like this guy does.
Where Once There Was Softwood…..
This is Foxbury in the New Forest. This used to be a softwood plantation, but now the timber has been extracted and the National Trust are returning it to heathland. There is some planting of hardwood going on, and a constant battle against the invasive rhododendron, but with an army of volunteers (of which I am one) we are slowly and surely getting there.
Rockford Common
My volunteer group is due to visit Rockford Common, in Hampshire, in a week or so. The common is owned by the National Trust. This is a photo from a previous visit, where I could get up the bank and take the photo from above.
BTEC – The ‘New’ New Forest
This was completed for “People in the Countryside”. It depicts a group of volunteers planting new trees in the New Forest in Hampshire, England. This was based on a photo I saw in the National Portrait Gallery in London called “Actors’ last Supper” by Alistair Morrison. I liked how everyone was doing something different in a posed shot. This wasn’t posed so though and it worked out really well.
