twig – Jill Orme Photography

10 Feb 2025

Diffuse

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

Over the past few years I’ve worked with both ring and twin flashes, but they’re difficult to diffuse and tend to produce harsh highlights and shadows, so late last year I made the decision to go back to a traditional … Continued

31 Jan 2024

Blue

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

It being the last day of January, and just about 10°C, I decided that it might be worth having a little hunt around the garden for invertebrates. I didn’t expect to find much, and I didn’t, but the bug season … Continued

8 Jan 2024

Floof

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

There’s not much to say about today, really: it was cold, it was dark, and it tried briefly to snow while I was in Stratford, but lost interest after a couple of minutes and gave up. This little blue tit … Continued

28 Aug 2023

Mottled

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

I need to be a bit careful here, because there is actually a UK species called the Mottled Grasshopper, but I’ve never seen one, and this definitely isn’t it: Myrmeleotettix maculatus is smaller and more compact than this, and both … Continued

20 Feb 2023

Perched

by JDO | posted in: Birds, Warwickshire | 0

Right up until I processed this image, I expected to be posting a contre jour blue tit today. But there’s something about this one – the light on the bird, and the buds on the twig, plus the well-diffused background … Continued

14 Jan 2023

Sunburst

by JDO | posted in: Fungi and slime moulds, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I’m still feeling quite rough, and spending the entire morning on the computer doing financial admin didn’t improve the situation. The weather was also pretty dreich, and by lunch time I was in a deep slough of despond. At this … Continued

30 Aug 2022

Weevil Knievel

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

I spent a couple of happy hours in Trench Wood this afternoon, getting some invertebrate therapy. I arrived in bright sunshine, but by the time I was walking back along the main ride towards the car park it had clouded … Continued

3 Dec 2021

Blues

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

For a variety of reasons with which I won’t bore you, I have the blues today. But tomorrow will most probably be better, if only because the light is forecast to return. It was so dark in the garden this … Continued

31 Mar 2021

Zonkers

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

We had another busy, productive, and tiring day in the garden – mainly weeding and tidying, but R also cut back a tree that was getting above itself, and I did more patio planting. I also found some more excellent … Continued

15 Apr 2020

Secretive

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

This isn’t a very good photo, but I’m not apologising for posting it because it represents a fascinating half-hour I spent this afternoon, watching this female red-tailed mason bee (Osmia bicolor) thatching her nest. She was very secretive and flighty, … Continued