You can do all the planning you like, but if clouds arrive just as the eclipse gets going you might have to improvise. This isn't at all what I planned for, but you have to make do sometime. Anyway I can have another go in 2090. #eclipse

@evertonstadium.com Thought you might like to see this photo I took of the full moon rising over the stadium on Thursday.

The "buck moon" over the Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool. #everton @evertonfc.com

I wonder where this Dunlin has spent the summer and will it back back here for winter?

Do you think pigeons get a bad time - look at the colours!

Handsome Robin from the garden hide. Loads of fledged birds in the garden today, busy time of the year and especially tough work in a heatwave.

A garden Greenfinch taken from my hide/shed! We get small flocks passing through most days, usually with a bunch of Goldfinches. I always wonder where they spend their days and nights.

I wonder how far this Dunlin has travelled in its life and how far north has it gone since I took this a few weeks ago.

A Greenfinch taken from my garden bird hide (aka shed). Just been in the garden watch a Goldcrest, but sadly no photos.

A lone tree - English Lake District. Fortunately the weather was calm for this one!

There's a lot going on in this photo! Wales, the River Dee, the West Kirby marine lake wall, the marine lake, swirling high tide, the islands (Little Eye, Middle Eye, and Hilbre - just about), clouds...... And yet it is also very simple.

A different angle from my previous post, showing a bit more of the railings and how the tide sweeps across the wall. I wouldn't recommend doing this unless you have wellies and know what you are doing; a couple pushing a buggy tried to follow me along the wall, they didn't get very far.

There's only a few times a year when the tide and weather combined to allow this image to be created at West Kirby marine lake. I spent a bit of time trying to move this driftwood, but then actually thought I'd leave it because it provides a natural contrast. Should I have moved it?

Has anyone got a bird seed feeder that has actually turned out to be squirrel proof??

High tide at #westkirby marine lake wall. It is usually a very sedate walk around the wall, but if the tide is over 9m (or less if the weather is right) the sea will cover the wall. People have to be rescued from the wall at least a couple of times a year. #tide #marinelake #wirral #fineart #rnli

Hauptkirche St. Katharinen, Hamburg. St Catherine's church on a rather wet and grey day in Germany.

Have you visited Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg?

The Marco Polo Tower in Hamburg. It deserves a black and white treatment!

Two photos from the same spot in Madeira, one slow shutter and one normal. Which do you prefer?

A home with a view. Where would you guess this is?

I've posted a couple of photos from the opposite side of Penha d'Águia in Madeira, so thought for completeness you could have the view from this side too! This was taken from Miradouro do Boqueirão where there were so many lizards (Madeira wall lizard) it was impossible to count. #madeira

This was a lovely find in Madeira, a cafe with a view like this! Imagine sitting having a beer and looking at the weather change. #madeira

Same location as my last photo (Faial, Madeira) but quite different weather! If you ever visit you get this view from the side of the Fortress of Faial.

People escape to Madeira for the sunshine, but the rain ands clouds are great for creating atmospheric photography opportunities! This is Faial just as a very heavy rain shower was passing through. I did go back a couple of days later in the sunshine - keep an eye out for that image coming soon!

Which do you thinks works better - with colour or without?

A rainy day in Madeira - provides for a bit of drama in the clouds at least!

Missed the alert on my phone so probably missed the peak activity, but the Northern Lights were still showing over the lifeboat station in Hoylake last night when I got there.

A bit of patience (I ran back to the car a few times when the rain was really heavy) paid off in Madeira. A couple of shaft of sunlight illuminated the houses for me to capture.

Parque Natural do Ribeiro Frio, Madeira - conditions weren't great, but at the last minute the sun came out a little and gave me this opportunity I'm pretty pleased with the result - the transition from light to dark across the scene is matched by the car lights from white to red.

Believe it or not, when I first visited Madeira the road that you can just about see on the cliff was still open and we drove under this waterfall. The road is now closed and a much safer tunnel has replaced it.