Photography

International Garden Photographer of the Year competition

The winners were recently announced for the IGPOTY 2011 garden photography competition and I was amazed and delighted to find that my photo of the lowly nettle has been highly commended.  For lovers of gardens, the competition website contains a feast of garden and garden-related photography.  My favourite picture this year is 'Bee visiting Catkins' by Danny Beath in the Wildflower Category.  

Photography is a hobby for me so most of the pictures on this page were taken on holiday in Perthshire and in France.  The Paeonia Claire de Lune was taken at Gardening Scotland 2010 early one morning just as the sun was rising and shortly after we had watered the whole show garden in anticipation of a scorching day.  The ladybird was taken at my daughter's 8th birthday party.