flower – Page 23 – Jill Orme Photography

11 Jul 2023

Relief

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Invertebrates, Worcestershire | 0

Photographing small, mobile subjects in poor light and strong, gusty wind really is a fool’s errand: I took around three hundred photos today, and I’ve kept nine of them. By early afternoon I hadn’t produced a single image I actually … Continued

5 Jul 2023

White legs

by JDO | posted in: Damselflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

After being stuck at home for nearly forty eight hours I was raging to be out and about, but the weather outside my study window wasn’t enticing, and neither of my weather apps was optimistic. By this point in the … Continued

2 Jul 2023

Small Skipper

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Invertebrates, Worcestershire | 0

Yesterday I took a walk around Tilly’s field, the hay meadow that’s about a hundred metres from our house, and found not only Small and Essex Skippers, but scores – maybe hundreds – of grasshoppers and crickets, in different stages … Continued

1 Jul 2023

Lucky

by JDO | posted in: Arachnids, Invertebrates, My garden, Wasps, Worcestershire | 0

I had a busy and productive day today: I cooked a batch of curry for the freezer, did some domestic accounts, filed a huge pile of paperwork, and (with R’s help) cleaned up the filing system on my little Windows … Continued

25 Jun 2023

Smiler

by JDO | posted in: Damselflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

I had very little time for photography today, but I quickly set up the R7 this morning, and trotted off down the garden to try it out. My snap review is that it produces very sharp images when you can … Continued

24 Jun 2023

Busy

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I’ve had one of those days when you work pretty much flat out, but don’t feel you have much to show at the end for all the effort. I’ll just have to console myself that I can see the difference … Continued

1 Jun 2023

Magnet

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, Wales | 0

While R was pushing a napping grandchild around the park this afternoon, I went on an invertebrate hunt. The spring bedding has been dug up and all the flower beds are standing empty, waiting for the summer planting scheme to … Continued

31 May 2023

Gravid

by JDO | posted in: Hoverflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

May seems to be going out much as it arrived: windy, cold, and overcast. Obviously this isn’t particularly enticing for invertebrates, or for people like me who chase around after them with macro lenses. But in any case I was … Continued

18 May 2023

Fastidious

by JDO | posted in: Hoverflies, Invertebrates, Wales | 0

While the Boy Wonder was having his pram nap this afternoon, I made straight for the patch of Geranium phaeum which provided me with good invertebrate photos last Thursday. Today it was less busy, possibly because it was hotter, but … Continued

11 May 2023

Synchronicity

by JDO | posted in: Bees, Invertebrates, Wales | 0

It’s just two days since I posted photos of a red mason bee on Geranium phaeum – a plant I’d never seen before in my life – and a male blue mason bee, which is a species I see quite … Continued

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