pete mcgovern

Getting back home recently after a few week's away, and the heatwave had arrived before me. The river Witham is only 20 feet away and most summers there would emerge a few dragonflies damselflies to float around the garden at some point, back and forth, in much the manner of a Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump jet, although with significantly less impact on the olive tree or the forever wilting hydrangea bush. This summer, benefitting from catastrophic and irreversible global warming, has clearly been of huge encouragement to the nymphs, long waiting their moment amidst the plants along the water's lazy edge. The adults are quite abundent and some have taken to coming into the house, (to cool down?). They are quite twitchy which makes them hard to capture with a cup. It might be due to those massive ball shaped eyes which can see everywhere. It might be the overall size but they command far more authority than mere house flies and I feel innately respectful in my efforts to catch t...

Nick Carver's light but Lewis Baltz tidied up.

Nick Carver has one of the most entertaining photography channels. For a lot of us the occasions a video arrives are immediately good online days. His world is one of funny photographic jaunts resulting invariably in atmospheric pictures of quirky subjects, such as closed down vintage food chain buildings around his home State in western US. His latest post was, unusually, a digital camera review and a walk-along on his day job using it - architectural real estate work . It was interesting to see what he came up with when fulfilling someone else's brief but aside from the honed professional building interior and exteriors, there was this luminous moment of beauty: