It was a funny weekend, we went to Malvern for the Spring show on Sunday, it was nice, a bit overcast and windy and it did rain in the end. We got a few plants we wanted and had a nice day though; it is really well worth the visit a huge range of stalls for everything gardening, and then some.
I took Monday off and it was a better day – decided to go
and do a bit of macro photography – a splendid magazine I get
Outdoor
Photography, https://www.facebook.com/outdoorphotographymag,
My thanks to my lady for the subscription as a birthday present.
It has a monthly competition and this month is macro insect photography. My
kind of photography, so off I went to a
local nature reserve called Aberthaw, initial view was to get pictures of damselflies
and dragonflies, given the competition and time of year my expectation is that lots
of people will go for the ‘pretty’ ones butterflies, dragons etc.
So I decided
to go for some of them to see what was about, to see what I could get and to
record them for the British Dragonfly Society,
But also I wanted a few other insect groups not so favoured – so Spiders
and Beetles!
They really are fantastic and the few I found to photograph
were really interesting
In all a nice day and the weather was sunny if a bit breezy –
that made close up shots ‘interesting’! but it was a great day out and a really
nice day off
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| Hairy Dragonfly Brachytron pratense |
This one is quite variable in the Thorax colour
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| Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans |
as you can see here - the top one is the 'normal' thorax colour the lower is a pink variation
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| Blue-tailed Damselfly Ischnura elegans |
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| Common Blue female Polyommatus icarus |
This lady was so busy feeding she ignored me totally - she is on Hawthorn
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| Holly Blue female 1st brood Celastrina argiolus |
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| spider on the web - not identified |
Look at the legs on this one - but dont worry the spider is only 7 - 11 mm
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| Orb web spider Tetragnatha extensa |
This one is from below the web - I think it is a really lovely spider
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| Tetragnatha extensa |
This is sweet - its a buttercup so you can see how small it is dont think it has a common name
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| Theridion sisyphium |
And finally a Green tiger beetle - this is a fast predator, awsome colours on it
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| Green Tiger Beetle Cicindela campestris |
You would get on with one of my oldest friends, Lorna, she takes some amazing photos of insects and is just coming to the end of her 2nd yr on a photography course; akin to A level I think. She is in Essex, but don't hold that against her :P she doesn't blog and I don't think you FB which is a shame, I must post her your blog link. Amazing pictures, I get that long legged spider in the house, don't like spiders but I do like that one!
ReplyDeletemust admit it is a beauty, legs long enough to make a model cry
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