Soft rush Juncus effusus is common throughout Britain growing in flooded and wet meadows, especially on acid soils and in bogs, woods and heaths. Its thin smooth stems without leaves are bright green with brown flowers borne in loose clusters. The stems can be easily peeled to reveal a spongy white pith which was traditionally used for making candle wicks.
Landscape photography is my focus (sic) since retiring from a university career researching and teaching plant and environmental science. Photography combines my lifelong love of Britain's wild places with an understanding (I hope!) of how our diverse environments work and the processes within them, as well as the way light falls on them. Seeing - really seeing - what is around us is hard, and the challenge for me is to find formalist images whose structure and atmosphere are consonant with the nature of the subject.
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