Plant, Wildlife and Landscape Photography
Simply photographs,, occasionally with a brief comment.. Most are of botanical, wildlife and landscape subjects. This is not a business. but please read the copyright notice at the foot of the page..
Richard Gregson PhD MPhil CBiol FRSB
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Just Pictures - Naturally
Photograph Albums
There is a gallery containing a few small, thematic albums – follow the menu link at the top of the page or find them HERE
Monarch on Echinacea
Monarch Butterfly
Monarch’s exploit many plants, not only milkweed. This specimen had just been laying eggs on milkweed leaves and had moved over to this Echinacea to stocky up on nectar.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: -7/10EV
- Focal length: 105.83000183385mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/640s
Crepuscular Carrots
Wild carrot (Daucus carota) after sunset
- Aperture: ƒ/9
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Focal length: 12mm
- ISO: 1600
- Shutter speed: 1/1.6s
Squash Bee
Pollination
A pair of bumble bees at work inside a male squash flower – hopefully they will later find themselves in a female flower and be able to put the pollen to good use.
- Aperture: ƒ/2.5
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 8.8400001525879mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/100s
Scottish Fungus
Happened upon while wandering at Ardtornish on the west coast of Scotland – autumn 2016
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 135.88999938684mm
- ISO: 640
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Face-off …
Weevil Wasp
Facing off on the flowers of a wild carrot plant with an ant. Who will back down first?
I had some difficulty identifying this fellow but with a little external assistance pinned it down as a ‘Weevil Wasp’ … a future contributor to the 1000 Species Project when I have done some more reading up on them.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 167.97999565123mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/800s
A Wet Summer’s Evening
Interesting Light in the Garden
Photographers often sing the praises of “the golden hour” at sunset or “the blue hour” just after and they are worth making use of. However, I often find that to my eye, maybe not yours, the really interesting light is in the middle of a heavy shower of rain when there are no shadows, the light is diffused and the colours of flowers positively glow.
- Aperture: ƒ/3.2
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: -7/10EV
- Focal length: 14.7mm
- ISO: 1250
- Shutter speed: 1/40s
Monarch Butterfly
This Monarch butterfly prospected the garden in the early morning before settling for a while on this, yet to flower, golden rod stem. There are plenty of milkweed plants nearby so hopefully eggs, caterpillars and then more butterflies.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 174.9mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/500s
Copyright ©
All images are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 CA) License … which really just means that you are very welcome to share and use any of these images, but for non-commercial purposes only and you may not alter them without permission. If you wish to use any image commercially please contact me to discuss terms and licensing.
You should also show attribution – such as © Richard Gregson 2021 for example.