natureoncam aka Greg's articles

  • Not here much

    - 2 years ago - 6 comments
    About three weeks ago my wife and I decided to travel to South Wales from Yorkshire to pay a visit to my brother who was seriously ill. We arrived on a Friday and walked up to the hospital on the Saturday morning to visit him, I never made it, collapsing on the side of the road and being bought back to life by a midwife doing CPR and a paramedic shocking me twice before putting me in an ambulance and taking me to the nearby hospital. Sadly my brother died before I could see him, on a positive…

  • What to do?

    - 01 Apr 2019 - 4 comments
    Whilst visiting my brother in hospital a week or so back I inadvertently left my camera bag and all its contents in my hotel room and despite the best efforts of the hotel and myself it has disappeared, either stolen by staff or a guest who used the room after me. So to the title "what to do" I have decided agaist using my insurance company to claim as the premium will rise to compensate for their loss, never really uderstood that but there it is. So I have been looking to replace an ageing DS…

  • Alaska & Canada

    - 05 Jun 2014
    Along with my wife and two very good friends I have just spent virtually five weeks in Alaska, British Columbia and Alberta on a cruise ship for Alaska and then in an RV (motorhome) travelling from Vancouver to Calgary via some wonderfully beautiful places. The Album named Canada & Alaska will over time show a great number of the photos I took and my blog at natureoncam.blogspot.co.uk/ will also over time put words to the pictures and the events of the days. It wasn't a holiday but far more…