Lens-Artists Challenge: What’s In A Garden?

What’s in a garden? Many things, large and small. From stately homes to formal beds, from fountains to mazes. Obviously, not every garden has any of these, but I can pretty much guarantee that thy will all have flowers and insects that have a symbiotic relationship with them.

Lens-Artists Challenge: What’s in a garden?

Cellpic Sunday: Spot The Bee

Can you see it?

(Another image from Guédelon).

Cellpic Sunday 7 July 2024

Lens-Artists Challenge: Floral

I don’t know about you, but I probably take more photos of flowers than any other subject. That’s not surprising really, given there are a lot of them about and, for the most part, they are…..well, photogenic.

For this challenge I wanted to post something a little out of the ordinary, so I chose this image of a bee taking nectar from a small orchid. It helps to remind us that flowers are not standalone things of beauty, but an essential part of a broader ecosystem.

Lens-Artists Challenge: Floral

Cellpic Sunday: A Busy Bee

Taking the nectar from a grape hyacinth…

Cellpic Sunday 24 March 2024

Sharing the nectar

I spotted these two bees taking their fill of nectar from one of the flowers in my son’s garden. Looks like there was plenty to go round.

CMMC 6 September 2023