Because the temperature has dropped a few degrees, I’m merely looking around the garden now to see what I can spot, rather than sweeping or beating inverts from their shelters. Best of the day today was this Tree Damsel Bug … Continued
As I walked back to the house this morning after a trip down the garden to put some kitchen refuse on the compost heap, I wondered what on earth I was going to find to photograph on such a dark, … Continued
This is the result of my second experiment in achieving extra diffusion for my Godox MF-12 twin flash heads: this time I scrunched some bubble wrap into the diffusers, in the hope that it would bounce the light around a … Continued
I was practising some Haydn in advance of a choir rehearsal – an assertion that might surprise anyone who had the bad luck to be sitting in my vicinity later in the evening – when R arrived at my desk, … Continued
Pottering around the garden this afternoon, I came across a group of at least eight Green Shieldbugs resting on adjacent leaves in one of the Norway maples. This was interesting in itself because I’d never seen this behaviour before, but … Continued
Well, this was a nice surprise. Not for you, perhaps – “OMG! Not more insects, surely?” (Ed.) – and not for the shieldbug, which was so determined to get away from the camera that after racing around the Viburnum for … Continued
