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

Just finished a home computer project.Now have access to archived and new images via MacStudio (M4 Max). Impressed with the performance of LR and PS (for the photo togs). Makes editing old images so much more fun so here's the the lunatic lone male capercaillie in Abisko, March

Decided to change my main computer and it’s proving to be a complex task but with this wind would be no photography from me so he’s a high mag handheld stack of Evarcha falcata jumping spider from Sat. It’s tricky to do in the wild with no flash but can just get away with it…

Today watched one of natures battles with spider hunting wasp trying to predate a spider but an ant had decided it had other ideas…. The spider hunting wasp was persistent but eventually the ant dragged the spider away. Either way the spider stood no chance

Roosting banded bee from Junes trip to Bulgaria 🙂. This image nearly didn’t make it as I thought I’d got everything off the card and was going to format it…

Saw this quote today written on 205 year old sundial “Time and life move swiftly” near Bransdale doing a 16 mile loop. Beautiful part of the North Yorkshire Moors I hadn’t explored before (and I don’t think many people do)

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