Photography(Real Life)

2025 - France - Nature

Huw Swanborough

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2025 - France - Nature
A giant close-up of a cat.

The nature and animal oriented pictures from my France trip, with one giant close up of a cat.

Nantes - Jardins des Plantes

I shan't scant on Nantes plantes.

Oh hi there...
Who's peering at whom?
Definitely not a fae trap...
..this speaking head told me so.
Water most fowl.

Dating is hard as a frog...

Features

"The violet carpenter bee? Why is called that?"
"No, I still don't get it... what does he operate a lathe or something?"
Shake your honey maker.

Ouessant (Ushant)

A tiny island in the French Atlantic.

G.O.A.T
Three Wise Billy Goats Gruff.... wait I think I'm mixing parables again...

Birds (mostly gulls)

These were 80-90% done with a manual focus lens by the way... nightmare.
"eurgh... tourists"
"sigh...tourists"
"haha... tourists"
"I swear, the fish was this big..."
You may not like it, but this is what peak physical performance looks like
Trying to scare away a hawk (unpictured, because of the manual focus)

The Sea Rocks

get it?

Great strides taken for the perfect photograph
...it's cos like... the sea is awesome. It rocks, but also... these are the sea rocks.. Like... rocks of the sea? Like... So... It's a double entendre, a type of phrase that is open to two interpretation.

There's no law says a horse can't have a mortgage...

"No Dougal, this windmill is small. This Lighthouse is far away" "Ah Ted, I still don't get it"

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