#mosstodon meets #lichensubscribe - up near Alport Heights, #Derbyshire, August 2025. (Yes, I'm sorting through old photos!) #macroPhotography

For #insectSaturday / #insektenSamstag - have some miscellaneous #robberflies, with prey, from earlier this year. #Derbyshire #insects #macroPhotography

Some colourful, autumnal hedges - in extreme closeup. #Derbyshire, November 2025. #macroPhotography #lichenSubscribe

Almost all the leaves had fallen from the trees, and hidden among them was this beautiful mushroom. #MacroPhotography #AmazingMushrooms #KingdomFungi #nature#macrophotography#autumn

Miscellaneous #macrophotography #bloomscrolling from #VolunteerPark Conservatory, #Seattle#macroPhotography#VolunteerPark#bloomScrollingMostly orchids, I think?) September 2025.

This small, extravagant dragon of exotic beauty was near the Greek Theater in Syracuse. #AnimalPhoto #nature #travel #Reptiles #italy #lizard#reptiles#animalphotoPlacesInTheWorld #UntamedBeauty

Three different instars of Nezara viridula nymphs spotted in a west London garden, early this week - and it seems the adults look quite different again! https://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Pentatomidae/nezara_viridula.html #insectSaturday #insects #shieldbugs #macroPhotography

En blå fjäril. #photography #naturephotography #butterfly #butterflies #fjäril #fjärilar #macrophotography #macro #naturemacro #macroworld #natur #nature#natur#naturephotography#macro#macrophotography#insects#macroworld#insectphotography#NatureMacro#butterfly#butterflies#pixelfedsweden

Sneaking into #monochromeMonday with another #infrared shot - overlooking the #GrandCanyon, #arizona#monochromemonday#grandcanyonJuly 2013. (Strictly speaking, it's *not* quite monochrome - there's some complex interplay with longer / shorter wavelength near-infrared and the bayer mask on the sensor. Ahem.)

Heermann's gull, 2012. Have to say, they're among the most stylish gulls I've seen. They look so distinct. 📷 Canon EOS 450D 🔎 EF-S 55–250/4–5.6 IS #photography #birdphotography

Visiting family. A fly landed in my beer... On closer inspection after being rescued, a tiny ichneumon wasp! (Why do wasps, suddenly appear - every time, I am near, etc. I'd just been telling them the Good News about parasitoid wasps...) #insects #wasps #macroPhotography

[Cuddly spider! (Awww.)] In case #spiderSaturday is also a thing - a rather cuddly Nursery Web Spider, Pisaura mirabilis. Not sure *what* it was doing with its front legs. Indicating that it wanted a hug? Aww. Derbyshire, yesterday […] [Original post on pixelfed.hylobatidae.org]

It seemed end-of-season for many bugs - then yesterday was warm and sunny. Cue ... bugs! Dragonfly: Aeshna cyanea? Cranefly: Tipula sp.? Fly: Sargus bipunctatus? Ladybird: Coccinella septempunctata #Derbyshire #insectSaturday #insects #dragonflies #craneflies #flies #ladybirds #macroPhotography

Tiny #toadstools in the grass... #Derbyshire, yesterday. #fungi #macrophotography #sporespondence#macroPhotography#mushtodon

For #throwbackThursday - some #streetphotography from #Brussels, 2006-2008. (I feel very self-conscious when pointing a camera at people - hence my tendency towards a more detached, humans-absent style of photography. But with these shots approaching 20 years old, I feel better about sharing...)

Big wasp / little wasp from today - Vespa crabro (male, based on number of segments in the antennae?) and an unidentifiable tiny one seen ambling across the wall next to my computer, illuminated by a desk lamp. Just a few millimetres long... #Derbyshire #insects #hornets #wasps #macroPhotography

For #throwbackThursday - some #streetphotography from #Brussels, 2006-2008. (I feel very self-conscious when pointing a camera at people - hence my tendency towards a more detached, humans-absent style of photography. But with these shots approaching 20 years old, I feel better about sharing...)

The turquoise water at Sigölduglúfur results from all the silica it absorbs as it seeps from the hydroelectric reservoir and through the lava fields before emerging here. #photography #smartphone #landscape#smartphone#Iceland

For #monochromeMonday - an #infrared shot of #columnarBasalt somewhere in central Washington State.... #pnw

A #MonochromeMonday broadcast. 📷 Minolta XE-5 🔎 MD 35–70/3.5 macro 🎞 Agfa APX 400 (2006, EI 125) #analogphotography #expiredfilm

For #saturdaySolitude - stark, abstract #concrete in evening light in the old artillery bunkers above the Golden Gate Bridge, #SanFrancisco#concrete February 2011. #abandonedplaces

For #saturdaySolitude - stark, abstract #concrete in evening light in the old artillery bunkers above the Golden Gate Bridge, #SanFrancisco#concrete February 2011. #abandonedplaces

I'm too late for #doorsday, so I'll have to post this for #Fensterfreitag / #WindowFriday instead. #Brussels#doorsday August 2008. (Yes, I'm rummaging though the forgotten corners of my Lightroom library again...)

For #macroMonday - bees? Lazy gits. (Some huge fuchsia plants overflowing someone's front garden - absolutely buzzing with bees, and a couple of hornets. The bees have nibbled holes in the tops of the flowers, for more rapid access to nectar...) #Derbyshire #insects #bumblebees #macroPhotography

[Spiders! Lots of spiders (yay!)] For #spiderSunday - an autumnal selection from Derbyshire this weekend. On web, eating wasp: Araneus sp.? Giant house spider: Eratigena sp. Jumping spider: Salticus scenicus? #spiders #jumpingSpiders #macroPhotography

#FotoVorschlag "Magical nature in black and white" - a rainforest in #infrared. #Hawaii#infrared#FotovorschlagMarch 2010...

For #saturdaySolitude - part of the vast old 22MHz 'T' antenna at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, near #Penticton, #BritishColumbia, #Canada. #infrared#BritishColumbia#Canada#radioastronomy#Penticton#telescopes

#FotoVorschlag: Snapshot from a bus or train Prompted by @[email protected] - shots from inside a half-empty #LeShuttle back in September 2012, mostly deep beneath the English Channel - looking eerily like the grimy interior of a spacecraft from a dystopian future. #WeylandYutani #trains

It's pretty funny that now, my seemingly less-successful bug-finding ambles are still way more productive than my best ones of the past. Today's offerings... Butterflies: Lycaena phlaeas Hoverfly: Eristalis tenax or E. pertinax? Bumblebee: Bombus sp […] [Original post on pixelfed.hylobatidae.org]

For #saturdaySolitude - a ruined industrial building at Lumsdale Mills, near #Matlock, #Derbyshire. January 2019. #dereliction#Matlock#abandonedplaces

Bonus butterfly photo from yesterday - I didn't initially notice this later shot where the butterfly turned slightly, for the sun to reveal iridescent hairs underneath the wings... Speckled Wood, Pararge aegeria. #Derbyshire #insects #butterflies #macroPhotography#butterflies#insects#insectsaturday

For this post, I am classifying spiders as 'bugs'. Entomologists (and etymologists), fear the vernacular! Possibly a (male?) Macaroeris nidicolens, seen on a rose leaf in a garden in west London. Seemed a relatively large jumping spider by UK standards! #spiders #jumpingSpiders #macroPhotography

Today's mystery wasps, part two - another ichneumon (?) on an ornamental bamboo plant in the garden. They're all over! #Derbyshire #insects #wasps #macroPhotography

Lens extension tube arrived - which means I can get EVEN CLOSER TO THE BUGS. Ahem. Cue some photos from a quick test-drive out in the garden... Butterfly: Pararge aegeria Ladybirds: Coccinella septempunctata Shieldbug: Coreus marginatus? Spider […] [Original post on pixelfed.hylobatidae.org]

A derelict window seen through an even more derelict window, for #windowFriday / #fensterFreitag. Below Shining Cliff Woods, #Derbyshire#Fensterfreitag#WindowFridayAugust 2021. #abandonedPlaces #dereliction

For #windowFriday / #fensterFreitag - a rather derelict industrial example from below Shining Cliff Woods, #Derbyshire#Fensterfreitag#WindowFridayAugust 2021. #abandonedPlaces #dereliction

No idea about a suitably alliterative daily hashtag for this. Is #saturdaySolitude a thing? It is now. An abandoned lido outside #Warsaw, #Poland - from September 2008. #dereliction #abandonedplaces

One interesting side-effect of using decent cameras for A While is that older photos become unstuck from time - perfectly clear, immaculately preserved digital captures of a particular time and place. One of these photos was from Then, another from […] [Original post on pixelfed.hylobatidae.org]

#Doorsday meets #throwbackThursday and #FotoVorschlag "Urbex - Lost Place" - at an abandoned lido outside #Warsaw, #Poland, from September 2008. #dereliction #abandonedplaces

Wasp from the other day (an ichneumon?) - on a cow parsley flower. I feel I ought to post this - to keep up the incessant wasp-posting... #Derbyshire #insects #wasps #macroPhotography

Another hornet! Vespa crabro, From this morning. (Last night I wondered what all the scratches on the lily-pads were from - seems it's a regular landing pad for hornets, with them coming back every few minutes! Great fun to watch...) #Derbyshire #insects #hornets #macroPhotography#insects#MacroMonday

For #macroMonday - a grasshopper! Common Field Grasshopper, Chorthippus brunneus? https://www.naturespot.org/species/common-field-grasshopper #Derbyshire #insects #grasshoppers #macroPhotography

Starting to feel distinctly autumnal here... #photoMonday #Derbyshire#Photomonday#hedges #autumn

For #saturdaySolitude - some abstract #industrialArchaeology above #Cromford, #Derbyshire#Cromford#industrialArchaeology#saturdaySolitudencluding remnants of an old tramway up past Black Rocks, and a pile of stacked, worked masonry in the overgrown Barreledge Quarry... 1/2