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chilled out insects

Well, the cold, overcast weather may be good for photographing flowers but it is not helping our insects! Today I came across a small white butterflies in a coma on wild garlic and on the next leaf, a tawny mining bee was just as shocked! For those interested in such matters, these are taken using the legendary Nikkor 200mm f/4 macro lens. small white butterfly in wild garlic tawny mining bee on wild garlic

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Spring Wild flowers

I cobbled together this montage of spring wild flowers taken at the same reserve as the herb paris in the previous post. Here we have early purple orhid, yellow archangel, golidlocks buttercups and bluebells. Again, the overcast light has really helped with the colour saturation.
spring wild flowers West Yorkshire

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HERB PARIS

Caught up with this superb bunch of Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia) at a small nature reserve near Wetherby today. This is a scarce plant locally and one that I have not photographed before and, for once, the overcast conditions were great for this subject. On dull days, green plants really look saturated in the images whereas they look far more washed out on sunny days. Herb Paris is also known as true-lover’s knot.

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Camargue white horses and flamingo

A four day trip to the Camargue in France turned out to be a photo spectacular with over 100gb of images shot! We spent the majority of the time photographing flamingo and herons but also took time out to work with the famous Camargue white horses. I have over 6000 images to sort through so here are just a few to be going on with ;¬)

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Woodcock in the snow

The snow was melting rapidly today so I needed to get out for the Norfolk woodcocks regardless to ensure I got a few images before they moved on. Norfolk often has a good fall of woodcock, continental birds visiting from as far as Russia, during the winter months but and when conditions are harsh, they can be seen readily along hedgerows and woodland edges. Thanks to David Tipling for helping out on this shoot and chauffeuring us around the snowy narrow lanes in his Freelander :¬) Here are two different birds, note the variable plumage.

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All content copyright John Gardner: landscape and nature photographer covering all types of wildlife and nature photography. Very experienced speaker giving illustrated lectures to clubs and societies and available for commission work. Based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire covering the whole of the UK and beyond. Images sold at competitive rates for publications and art. |P4 Photo Blog by NetRivet