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
Visit our other site for words (and pictures) about gardening, wildlife, and meatier matters – https://sparroworks.ca
Contact: greenbirding@gmail.com
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
Cracking Hummer
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
I have been lurking near these flowers for several days while Hummers come and go before I can grab the camera. Perseverance works – finally nailed it today as this fellow stayed long enough for his portrait to be taken and allowed retime to fiddle with the camera settings too. Feeling quite proud of this one if I do say so myself ;)
The flowers are Mexican Cigar Plants (Kuphea sp.) and seem to be even more of a Hummingbird magnet than even Monarda.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 124.94000246396mm
- ISO: 400
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Great Spangled Fritillary
To help with the Nature Conservancy Of Canada five nation; “Bioblitz” we spent some time in Arboretum identifying species … this was one of the stars. Their caterpillars grow on wild violets on the edges of woodland.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 174.9299926308mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Packed Lunch
Orbweaver spider (species t.b.i.d) taking a leisurely lunch with a bee … tasty.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: -1EV
- Focal length: 35.680000305176mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/500s
Midnight Garden
- Aperture: ƒ/1.8
- Camera: DSC-RX100
- Exposure bias: -2EV
- Focal length: 10.4mm
- ISO: 3200
- Shutter speed: 1/20s
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
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.