Butterfly Mornings

Some rhopalocera this time. Butterflies are much easier to identify than flies - this one is a gatekeeper or hedge brown, which are fairly common in our garden during the summer.

May Bee

I think this might have been a bee. I am certain that it was on a seed head in our garden when I made this image.

Fly Be

Another image of a fly, this time on a leaf, just for a bit of variety.

No Flies On Me Etc, Etc...

In this case, its on some honeysuckle.

Blue Fly

It might help if I new the species of insect or the name of the flower that appear in this image. Or it might not. 

Bee Here Now

I've been making images of mini-beasts this summer. It took me while to realise that, like any portrait, you need to achieve reasonable sharpness in the eyes for any chance of success, but the penny dropped eventually.

We have a lavender hedge in our garden and there are bees all over it throughout the season, so you'd think that I'd have any number of images, but no, this is the only one. Fortunately, it quite a good one, I think.

Oh, and as a by-the-way, this is my first post written on Windows 10. Can you see the difference?

Didn't think so.

We Happy Fuschia

Back in our own garden, a fuschia flower.

Return of the Tyntesfield Thunderbold

You made remember - or you may not - that a set of mono images made in the walled garden at Tyntesfield during a summer visit provided a whole series of posts for this blog last year.

Well, we returned this year, for what turned out to be a fairly unenjoyable visit. As if to echo this, the beds in the walled garden had gone over and seemed in need of some attention. With the rest of the family stomping about in a bad mood, photographic opportunities were limited.

In any case, I made this image, which I'm quite happy with. I struggled to decide between the mono or the colour version for this post, however my final decision was to go mono to fit in with the set that I created last year.

Praying Mantis

A final image from the Wells Cathedral set.