Every day (but one – what was I thinking?) since the coronavirus lockdown began I have walked on Oxford’s Port Meadow and taken at least one photograph. For this year’s #30 Days Wild I will do the same. I love this space, and I love the routes to, from and through it. I have seen it change since 24 March. It will change again in the next 30 days.

What do I look for? an unusual angle, a bird, a flower, the sunlight. I try to spot the things out of the corner of my eye. For many years we spent time by the sea in Whitstable, Kent. I realised that I photographed the same few things again and again. It used to bother me. Now it doesn’t. They are the things to which I am drawn. Often there is a reflection, or a repeating pattern.

I have an uncomplicated camera (a Lumix TZ80), with which I point and click, using automatic settings. I don’t fiddle much afterwards, just crop and occasionally alter colour/light densities.

I have been delighted by the extraordinary pizzazz of a heron’s plumage when seen in detail – herons are likely to figure strongly over the next month.

And I try to catch the impact of light, emphasizing the structure of flowers and trees: there will be more images of this kind to follow.

A hot, dry day at the start of June, 2020. Day 1 of 30.