Friday, April 18, 2025
Life on Comfrey and Alkanet
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Latest Toft Invertebrates
With warm and relatively still conditions, there were lots of species to photograph in the garden yesterday. My favourite images are of the male Jumping Spider males found wandering across one of the flower beds.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Cucumber Spider
This little spider was hiding in one of the seed heads that I cut down in the garden and made a perfect model to try out the 90mm Macro lens. Image 2 is a photostacked image, others are single shots. The only other 'model' I found was a Blowfly and demonstrates the incredible sharpness of the lens.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Inverts Emerge from Winter Hibernation
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
First Insects etc of the Year
The warm sunshine yesterday brought out quite a lot of flies, spiders and bees in the garden. Recovering from surgery is frustrating as I can manage the camera and macro lens but no fill-in flash and chasing bees is definitely out! Anyway here five invertebrates to start 2025 garden records