WASP

November 30, 2022 in Photography

30.11.22

Last day of November and I thin this wasp was on the edge, about to give up for the winter.

///hangouts.shippers.opinionated

Canon EOS 70D - EFS 55-250 USM
250mm / ƒ6.3 / 1/60s / ISO 500

MACRO WORLD

October 11, 2022 in Photography

11.10.22

Little bit stuck for ideas today so out came the good old macro adapters to save the day!

Looks kind of like fireworks.

Canon EOS 70D - EFS 55-250 USM
55mm / ƒ8.0 / 1/400s / ISO 400

GREEN VEINED WHITE

September 13, 2022 in Photography

13.09.22

Still a fair few butterflies around in the grasses. I love the eyes on these.

///hairdresser.herbicides.bypassed

Canon EOS 70D - EFS 55-250 USM
225mm / ƒ8.0 / 1/320s / ISO 400

DRAGONFLY

August 30, 2022 in Photography

30.08.22

I’ve been trying to track down a dragonfly for weeks and today there were five cycling overhead. Luckily this one decided to take a break for me to sneak up.

///aflutter.spit.contacting

Canon EOS 70D - EFS 55-250 USM
250mm / ƒ8.0 / 1/250s / ISO 200

HOVERFLY

August 26, 2022 in Photography

26.08.22

Feeling a lack of inspiration today so this hoverfly had to do!

Canon EOS 70D - EFS 55-250 USM
200mm / ƒ8.0 / 1/100s / ISO 400

NO FEAR

August 22, 2022 in Photography

22.08.22

My biggest fear is being stranded at sea in a storm, which terrifies me. Spiders, I don’t have a problem with but I know more than enough people who would run across lava to get away from them.

It’s about to get a lot busier on the ground as the autumn crops in!

///envy.divides.orbit

Canon EOS 70D - EFS 55-250 USM
185mm / ƒ8.0 / 1/60s / ISO 500

SWALLOWTAIL

August 19, 2022 in Photography

19.08.22

Every year I’ve seen posts of Swallowtail sightings but I haven’t seen one in over 7 years in France. Today the opportunity came up to see one, albeit in caterpillar form. Still, these are stunning (and rare) butterflies in Guernsey.

Canon EOS 70D - EFS 55-250 USM
200mm / ƒ8.0 / 1/125s / ISO 400

SUNFLOWERZ

August 17, 2022 in Photography

17.08.22

The sun was hiding for most of the day so I went on a mission to find a sunflower. I found hundreds in the end. Added little cinematic twist to the edit to spice things up a bit!

///delegating.rustles.ashes

Canon EOS 70D - EFS 55-250 USM
215mm / ƒ8.0 / 1/160s / ISO 320

BLUEBOTTLE

August 15, 2022 in Photography

15.08.22

They eat poop and in reality, they are a pain in arse but when you look at the colours it’s easy to seem past that and appreciate how cool nature can be.

Canon EOS 70D - EFS 55-250 USM
220mm / ƒ8.0 / 1/125s / ISO 400

LEAFCUTTER BEE

July 28, 2022 in Photography

28.07.22

Once upon a time, I assumed there were honey bees and bumble bee bees. Then you realise that there’s actually over 250 different species of bees! That’s a a lot of bees.

Canon EOS 70D - EFS 55-250 USM
180mm / ƒ8.0 / 1/400s / ISO 400

COMMA

July 23, 2022 in Photography

23.07.22

Another butterfly to check off this list this year but I’m not very happy with this shot. Only took a few and they were all out focus. This was the sharpest of the bunch.

Canon EOS 70D - EFS 55-250 USM
200mm / ƒ8.0 / 1/200s / ISO 200

COMMON BLUE (MALE)

July 20, 2022 in Photography

20.07.22

Struggled to keep my energy levels up so went for a nice easy macro shot. I say easy but it really wasn’t easy when these butterflies just want to lead you deeper into the dry grasses!

I had been following a dragonfly but that one got the better of me and buggered off into another field!

Canon EOS 70D - EFS 55-250 USM
200mm / ƒ8.0 / 1/500s / ISO 250

COMMON BLUE (FEMALE)

July 11, 2022 in Photography

11.07.22

One of favourite butterflies, the Common Blue. The males have an amazing bright blue upper wing but the females have a darker wing although further north in the UK, the bluer they are apparently!

///glee.hurry.dusts