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The short bleak days are almost over and spring is on it's way. Just another week until it officially arrives and things start warming up. The weather has started to improve over the last week although it's still faily changable which is confusing the central heating. A lack of thermostat in the flat means we can be anywhere between cooked and frozen which is not entirely ideal. School are running a photography competition with a theme of spring so it prompted me to have a look back through photos I've taken this time of year over the last few years. I've included a few of my favourites below.

This blue tit was taken from the bedroom window at my mums in Sheffield. I really like the colours and brokeh in the photo. You can just see the leaves starting to unfurl on the branches

This one was taken a few years ago now, in the back garden at our old house in Leeds. I like the sharp colour of daffodil petals against the dark fence in the background.

This last one is taken at one of our favourite spots in Leeds, Roundhay Park. It's a great place for a walk all times of year and I have some great photos from all types of weather.

I hope you've enjoyed the photos. Let me know which one is your favourite.

I don't usually get involved in this sort of thing, but after a facebook invite from my friend Matt I took part in the 7 day #‎challengeonnaturephotography‬, picking a different landscape or nature photo each day. In the end it was pretty interesting going back through some old photo's trying to pick out a few favourites. Now I think all of these already exist in various albums on here but I've put them altogether for the blog. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! 

Day 1 -  Here we have a butterfly taken at the Whipsnade Zoo Butterfly House.

Day 2 - One of my favourites, on display in the website header, a shot of a humming bird taken at Griffith Observatory in LA.

Day 3 - This is a new addition to the site, a recently stitched landscape taken last summer at the White Cliffs of Dover

Day 4 - A photo of a Nuthatch taken in Nottingham last February

Day 5 - A friendly heron, taken whilst sitting in the Lido Bar and Cafe, Hyde Park, London last summer

Day 6 - A photo of a Robin taken last February in Nottingham shortly after the Nuthatch photo seen on day 4

Day 7 - The final picture of the week, A stitched panorama photo of the view back along the beach at Robin Hood's Bay.

That's all folks, I hope you enjoyed the photos!

As part of the ongoing website facelift, I've made some changes to the front page and site CSS. I've currently dumped the dark grey colour previously used across the site for fonts and the header banner in favour of black. I've also made a bit more of the adventure links on the front page and restyled the image preview to use the new justified gallery plugin used throughout the album. I'm pretty pleased with it for now, but let me know in the comments if you spot any bugs.