Posted on August 13, 2024
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?
Posted on July 7, 2024
Can you see it?
(Another image from Guédelon).

Category: Flowers Tagged: #cellpicsunday, bees, Cellpic Sunday, Foxglove
Posted on May 27, 2024
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
Posted on March 24, 2024
Taking the nectar from a grape hyacinth…

Category: Uncategorized Tagged: #cellpicsunday, bees, Cellpic Sunday, crocus
Posted on September 7, 2023