Martin Bailey Photography

01/09/2025

I’m finally starting to get results with my 10-inch mirror Newtonian Telescope. There was only an hour before it got cloudy for a while, but I was able to capture the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) and the Pelican Nebula (IC5070) alongside a comet, I believe. The stars aren’t perfectly round, and I’d like to gather more frames to stack together for a higher quality image, but after six weeks of studying all this new tech, I’m happy to be getting results I can build on.

18/07/2025

We just started taking bookings for our Winter 2027 Hokkaido Landscape and Wildlife Tours, and have some space available for the Winter of 2026. Check out our tour page for availability and jump to each respective tour page for details. https://mbp.ac/tours

22/05/2025

We trimmed our Anthurium plant back so I grabbed my microscope and photographed a cross section of the spadix which you see here at 200x magnification. I believe these are pollen tubes close to the outer edge of the spadix.

22/05/2025

We trimmed our Anthurium plant back so I grabbed my microscope and photographed a cross section of the stem which you see here at 200x magnification. I find it crazy that there are flower shapes in the parenchyma, which I believe is the name for the layer inside the outer skin or epidermis.

22/05/2025

We trimmed our Anthurium plant back so I grabbed my microscope and photographed a cross section of the stem which you see here at 200x magnification. This looks like a top view of a Mediterranean tile mosaic pool bottom.

13/05/2025

The first of our two maple trees filled itself with a coat of deep red leaves that are gradually turning green from the central veins. Being able to grab a camera and make photographs like this in my own garden is like a dream come true for me.

25/04/2025

After 24 years living in apartments with minuscule balconies, it’s amazingly fulfilling to finally have a garden again. We now have some flower borders and there had been some light rain around dawn today, so I grabbed my camera and macro lens to photograph the wet petals on one of our arctotis flowers. This is a five image stack to get focus throughout the flower head. I also darkened down the background to highlight the flower more.

25/04/2025

After 24 years living in apartments with minuscule balconies, it’s amazingly fulfilling to finally have a garden again. We now have four trees planted and some flower borders. There’d been some light rain around dawn today, so I grabbed my camera and macro lens to photograph the dew drops on the young, still hairy leaves on our young persimmon tree.

24/01/2025

During my Hokkaido Winter Landscape Adventure, I recorded a conversation with an old friend, David Lee, and reminisced about how we met and discussed his new passion for storm chasing.

During my Hokkaido Winter Landscape Adventure, I recorded a conversation with an old friend, David Lee, and reminisced about how we met and discussed his new passion for storm chasing.

24/01/2025

Today, I reflect a little on 2024, including an album of my personal top ten images for the year, and finish with a wish for world peace.

Today, I reflect a little on 2024, including an album of my personal top ten images for the year, and finish with a wish for world peace.

24/01/2025

It seems the last few posts weren't published to social, so here goes with a bit of catch-up: Having recently bought a Canon PRO1100 printer, this week I’m sharing a video of my first few test prints. Wow!

Having recently bought a Canon PRO1100 printer, this week I'm sharing a video of my first few test prints. Wow!

31/10/2024

This week, I share 11 images that I've shot in and around our new home prefecture of Gunma over the last three months.

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This week, I share 11 images that I've shot in and around our new home prefecture of Gunma over the last three months.