macro minibeasts
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So who likes flies? I don't, but once in a while they make a picture when the light hits them in the right way.
A Common Blue Tailed Damselfly watches me taking its picture as it perched on a reed by stanwick lakes in Northamptonshire, England.
This Nomada bee chose some beautiful flowers to feed from. It's the first Nomada bee I've managed to photograph and I was really pleased to see it.
I've barely been at home for the past three days... and I just looked at the pages of latest photos from my contacts and realised that it's going to take a while to pop round you all and see what you've been up to!
#74 in my photo-a-day series.
My Dad and I spent some time at Hartsholme Park, Lincoln, searching for plant galls. This gall had a bonus bee fly next to it - the fly was a bit cold so hung around long enough for me to get a few shots of it from different angles. This one was my favourite because it shows the underside - not something I've had a good look at before.
Bee fly, Bombylius major, and gall, Andricus lignicola, on oak, Quercus robur.
Handheld, natural light. Background colour is from the carpet of leaves on the woodland floor.
OK so I kind of like dragonflies, well actually I really enjoy the challenge of getting a macro lens on one as opposed to using a zoom. It is all about being slow, watching your shadow and missing loads of shots!
OK so I kind of like dragonflies, well actually I really enjoy the challenge of getting a macro lens on one as opposed to using a zoom. It is all about being slow, watching your shadow and missing loads of shots!
Some sunshine drew me outside into the garden this morning to see what I could find. It was a bit disappointing, though - quite a few flies, but little else until I spotted this ladybird on the fallen leaves.
7-Spot ladybird - Coccinella 7-punctata
Handheld, natural light.
This tiny thing had no idea as to what it was supposed to do. So there you have it, nature does not read manuals any more then I do!
Hand held with the Nikon 105mm macro and very dependent on its stabilizer!
This 6 Spot Burnet must have hatched nearby and quite recently too, it was very docile and did not once open its wings to fly off, strange really for a day flying moth. The larvae eat birds foot trefoil which is all over the place at Thurleigh in Bedfordshire. I am gradually getting the hang of my 60mm macro lense, nature's fun!
Photo taken near Thurleigh, Bedfordshire.
The warm sunny weather of the past couple of days has really got the ladybirds moving again! Here, a 7-spot clambers over a grape hyacinth.
Handheld, natural light.
#27 in my photo-a-day project.
My parents are visiting at the moment and we went over to Whisby Nature Park, Lincs for the day. During one of the sunny spells I managed to creep up on this Peacock butterfly. It's slightly ragged in places - but not surprising since it's one of last year's brood.
Handheld, natural light.
#40 in my photo-a-day series.
A Common Blue Tailed Damselfly telling me to go away! I was reminded of the film 'ET' by its eyes, as it perched on a reed by stanwick lakes in Northamptonshire, England.
Ladybird on a pretty cone of a Korean Fir tree.
The cones are 4–7 cm long and 1.5–2 cm broad, dark purple-blue before maturity; the scale bracts are long, green or yellow, and emerge between the scales in the closed cone. The winged seeds are released when the cones disintegrate at maturity about 5–6 months after pollination.
The afternoon sun brought the ladybirds out today. This pair were nestled on a rock rose leaf in the garden. The purple background is my children's outgrown plastic climbing frame thing.
Handheld, natural light.
#7 in my photo-a-day series.
Banovallum House, Horncastle, Lincs.
7-Spot ladybird - Coccinella 7-punctata
Handheld, natural light, some cropping.
Flies taking advantage of one of the products of organic scrub clearance. I had to get down and rather dirty, too, to take this shot!
Snipe Dales, Lincs.
Handheld, natural light.
Usually I try to get in close and fill as much of the frame as I can with my ladybirds. This time I had a go at trying to give a sense of scale - to show just how small they are!
2-spot ladybird - Adalia bipunctata.
Handheld, natural light.
#51 in my photo-a-day project.
A 7-spot ladybird perches on a scabious petal.
I bought a pot of scabious at the local garden centre yesterday and pretty soon the insects were checking it out.
Handheld, natural light.
#54 in my photo-a-day project.
Took some children on a snail hunt in the school garden before it gets too over run or I have to resort to pellets!
The second in my caterpillar series. For those who asked, I was holding the leaf in one hand and the camera in the other while my friend here just crawled about exploring the leaf. I was using a single light with reflector as the light source. Very basic set up, just touched up the black in lightroom. Thanks for all the comments on the first one. The caterpillars are now off to school in a fish tank set up for the kids to watch as part of their minibeast project.
Not a bad morning this morning, the sun was trying hard to say hello, saw a few springtails feeding on a wooden fence, not much else about
Face to face with a marbled white butterfly.
Photos from a walk around Twywell Hills and Dales Gullet and Twywell Plantation on day 25 of 30 Days Wild.
I just thought this made a nice shot and hopefully I will be able to show you the Cinnabar Moth in time.Photographed in Thurleigh, Bedfordshire.