The Wren's Breath. I had a vision of this photograph about 3 weeks ago and this morning after a lot of effort all the relevant bits came together and I finally managed to photograph a wren's breath. Canon R5 and Canon 800mm L

Harvestman from a hike yesterday. Looking halfway between war of the worlds and a spider crab. Easily overlooked but I think they can make interesting photographs. Still to find the Megabunus species! Hopefully one day if you don't know it look it up :)

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Getting round to updating my website it's been way to long. As I'm doing it finding other versions of images that I took. Here's a roe deer eating an oxeye daisy :) I tried this again this year but the hot dry start to the summer meant these flowers did not grow like in 2024.

Spent a bit of time trying to photograph butterflies in flight 🙂. Large white taking off. Canons Precapture sure helps with this. Sadly both sites I visited yesterday a new huge fly tippings in the car park :-(

Just in the archives getting images ready for a job and found this image I’d forgotten about!. Banded demoiselle at sunrise. This one is actually a single shot with the sun rising behind foliage

We started this moutain hike early but it has been hot hot hot… on the decent already

Some beautiful reflections up at Llyn Idwal tonight! So beautiful it caused the midges to come out :)

A very unique moment when black veined white butterflies decide roost time is over :). Recorded in 4K 100fps slow motion on the Canon R5ii on recent trip to Bulgaria

Saw a few snakes on this trip to Bulgaria and the 1st was this beautiful juvenile Aesculapian snake. I thought it was a grass snake to start as hadn’t seen this species before. Can grow to 2m and there’s a colony of them in London!

As you can see I’ve developed a bit of an obsession with these banded bees while I was in Bulgaria I may have photographed them more than the robber flies 😹

Back home after a fantastic week in Bulgaria. It really did deliver the goods this year with some species I’ve wanted to see/photograph for years!. This was a stunning owl fly (neither an owl or a fly) from the 1st morning

Sometimes the robberflies just come to me!

Last full day here in Bulgaria and off to a good start with a good heavy dew which gave me a good excuse to photograph more roosted banded bees. Have to be one of the cutest subjects out there!

A pair of roosting eastern festoons from yesterday evening 🙂. I’ve only ever seen this butterfly a few times so to have two roost on one perch with such an amazing background was something else!. Canon 35mm macro shot pretty wide gave me the specular background

It seems I’m in macro heaven…. Roosting banded bee 🐝 🙂. So many subjects this morning!. Handheld stack, no flash and just the natural background . Canon R5ii and RF 100mm macro L

Now in Southern Bulgaria it’s got very hot. This evening did a quick recci before tomorrow early shoot. One site was full of Eastern Festoons (one of the most beautiful butterflies IMHO) and the other site was full of robberflies and roosting bees! What a macro descsion to make!!

A huge butterfly roost with black veined white butterflies we saw yesterday late morning when they had got active so we went back today early doors. Even though there’s 1000’s of butterflies 🦋 was tricky to work out what to shoot and how to do it 🙂. Out with @Greenwings

Good morning Mr Owlfly 🙂. Back in Bulgaria and the 1st morning has been great as we found this species I’ve wanted to photograph for a long time. Only had to wait for an hour for it to open its wings 😹

What was the fly thinking looking 👀 up at these damselflies?. Taken today at Malham tarn as the temperature was starting to get hot!

The set up :)