Pollinator in Flight
Brown-belted Bumble Bee
Homing in on a rose …
- Aperture: ƒ/9
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 220mm
- ISO: 640
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Sporangia
Mossy Reproduction
This week the moss on the waterfall has pushed up a forest of sporangia
- Aperture: ƒ/2.8
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Focal length: 100mm
- ISO: 1600
- Shutter speed: 1/60s
Blue Jay
Handsome Fellow
Blue Jays are far from being the rarest birds around but they always stand out from the crowd.
I was particularly pleased with the feather detail and the glint in the bird’s eye in this photograph which was taken from the opposite side of the garden, so some considerable distance.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 219.75999450474mm
- ISO: 125
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Plant Portrait – Rosa glauca
Rosa glauca
Once known as Rosa rubrifolia … the flowers only appear for about a week but the hips at the end of the year are enormous.
R. glauca is a species rose, which is to say that the variety is unchanged from its original form in the wild. It is native to Europe and thrives in mountainous regions and in climates as frigid as Zone 2
- Aperture: ƒ/5.6
- Camera: DSC-RX100
- Focal length: 10.4mm
- ISO: 125
- Shutter speed: 1/160s
Plant Portrait – Meadow Buttercup
Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris)
- Aperture: ƒ/8
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Exposure bias: -7/10EV
- Focal length: 105mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/200s
It rained today …
- Aperture: ƒ/4.5
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Focal length: 100mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/125s
Rain on Leaves
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: -7/10EV
- Focal length: 120.91000371885mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/320s
Sniffing the Wind
Eastern Cottontail Rabbit
Just behind him is a large patch of wild carrot plants – he can’t wait for them to grow some more
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 207.88000488281mm
- ISO: 1250
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Meet Scurry the Squirrel
Head Squirrel of the Garden Clean-up Team
Scurry the Squirrel – because he scurries and he is an Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) and with a genus like Sciurius naming him Scurry just fits.
Despite being black(ish) he/she is nevertheless a Gray Squirrel, as are the rather less common cream coloured forms.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 219.82000757863mm
- ISO: 320
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Blossom Bower
- Aperture: ƒ/16
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Focal length: 40mm
- ISO: 250
- Shutter speed: 1/60s