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Visitors to my profile since 16 April 2010.
I live in Yeovil, Somerset, having moved from north London in 1973. I am married and have four grown-up children.
I took early retirement in October 2009 from Yeovil College where, for six years, I ran an Outreach Centre and taught digital photography, web design and general I.T. I ran my own web design company for over ten years. My earlier career comprised 36 years in local government in various architectural, management and I.T. roles.
My main passions have always been an eclectic mix of walking, photography, nature, art history and militaria. I used to do so much long-distance walking and back-packing that I managed to seriously and permanently damage my heel – these days I can just about manage five or six miles before my heel gives in but I still manage to get ino the countryside several times a week. I have always loved photography – at one time I had eleven cameras and dabbled with portrait and wedding photography semi-professionally. The digital age reinvigorated my photography and I now take over 30,000 photographs a year – primarily of British wild flowers (during spring, summer and autumn) and military defence installations (pillboxes, etc. during the winter) and, of course, PUBS all year round!
I have written three books on bayonets, three on Italian Futurist art, one on medieval carved church bench ends of south Somerset and A Photographic Guide of the Taunton Stop Line – Second World War Defences in Somerset and Devon. I am currently working on two further books; a Photographic Guide to the Parish Churches of South Somerset and A Photographic Study of the Wild Flowers of Somerset and Dorset and .
Check out my website - wbdpublications.co.uk
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Groups (32)
- Lee Enfield Weaponry 74 photos, 6 members
- UK Wildlife Trusts 11,609 photos, 648 members
- 'Butterflies and Moths of Britain' -Time to vote! 8,883 photos, 637 members
- Wildlife of the British Isles 18,464 photos, 633 members
- Somerset's Pubs 223 photos, 17 members
- Somerset's Nature Reserves 2,320 photos, 77 members
- Somerset's Wild Flowers 488 photos, 21 members
- Badgers! 1,302 photos, 266 members
- Militaria 238 photos, 24 members
- PILLBOX STUDY GROUP 10,904 photos, 254 members
- British Grasses, Sedges, Ferns and Rushes 349 photos, 97 members
- Butterflies of britain 4,261 photos, 237 members
- National Nature Reserves (UK) 2,034 photos, 171 members
- Pillboxes 5,894 photos, 400 members
- Anti tank 601 photos, 45 members
- Flora of the British Isles: A Photographic Guide 16,494 photos, 403 members
- English Thatched Pubs 379 photos, 45 members
- Quantocks AONB 687 photos, 56 members
- Stone & Rock 1,125 photos, 400 members
- Wartime Defences 5,475 photos, 334 members
- Beautiful Bugs 70,760 photos, 5,488 members
- Lyme Regis and Charmouth 2,701 photos, 285 members
- Minehead, Somerset 426 photos, 65 members
- Mushrooms, fungus, moss, mold, and growths! 7,259 photos, 399 members
- Moss and Lichen 13,491 photos, 2,148 members
- British Birds 73,096 photos, 1,670 members
- Fossils 4,460 photos, 713 members
- Lost Pubs 2,153 photos, 141 members
- British Lepidoptera 20,385 photos, 696 members
- Pubs in South West England 1,286 photos, 40 members
- RED LION PUBS. 267 photos, 34 members
- Pubs U.K. & Eire....(Public houses, inns and bars) 12,935 photos, 681 members
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- Name:
- Bob Osborn
- Joined:
- September 2007
- Hometown:
- Yeovil, Somerset
- Currently:
- England
- I am:
- Male and Taken
- Occupation:
- FE College Lecturer (Retd)
- Website:
- WBD Publications
