Place a bottomless white ice-cream tub on a sheet of paper, arrange flashlights around tub then invite bugs in for a quick beauty photo shoot.
Category: The Little World
I love getting a close up shot of mother nature which you can see in this collection from the Archives. You get a close-up view of the little world in these photographs. Shots range from creative views of bugs, plants, water and almost all of them are not visible from head height.
Bug beauty
Squirrel, rain and garden colour
A local squirrel distrubed from peanut collecting duty by a full frontal Poppy bark-fest scampered to a nearby wall and hung upside-down. Later-on the rain drenched flowers made intense colour and texture photographs.
Summer photographs from the garden
Another batch of colour and detail with summer photographs from the garden in late summer. Mother nature can look glorious when you get close to the bugs and flowers.
Summer photographs from the garden Banish the rain
I can’t help publishing these garden macro photography shots of various garden flowers and insects. Using my oldest most treasured lens, a Canon 100mm f2.8, which renders very pleasingly.
A Summer Flowering Garden
A collection of mid-summer flowering in the garden with a scottish twist…rain drops. Its been a wet summer so far with few bug invasions apart from a bampot of catepillars destroying a pot of Night Scented Stock. I’ve planted more vegatables than flowers this year; potato, peas, broccoli, lettuce, melon, cucumber, tomato, carrot, garlic and rhubarb. This is a small collection of flower and veg close-ups.
Gardner’s friends Broccoli leaves Backlit Nasturtium leaf Broccoli Potato flower …from behind. Fly sex Broccoli heart Lettuce Nasturtium leaf Callendula Flowering Marigold Silver leaf Garden Pea flower Baby peas in shilouette Unfurling Poppy flower Poppy opening Marigold opening Sweet pea flower Egg plant Californian Poppy Honeysuckle flower pods Cast-off Caterpillar casings Lavender Marigold opening Callendula Sense of seaside
Perhaps it was many summers exploring the island of Millport as a child that explain my love of the seaside. The screetch of seagulls brought a wave of happiness as you awoke then realised the noise meant a day roaming rocks and beach. Oh and the inevitable wet shoes by lunch which somehow made mum unhappy.
These shots were taken in Dornoch on Scotland’s north east coast. We took the family camping a few years and always had great weather. Its ‘big sky’ country, akin to Montana’s rolling fields, blue skies and dramatic cloud formations. A performance of microscopic water droplets on a Wagnerian scale. These are detail shots of the beach.
Muscle shell
