Amateur wildlife photographer. Entomology and nature enthusiast. Olympus camera gear. School science technician. Veganist. Dysgwyr Cymraeg 🏴🌱📸
Joined August 2020
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I think I’ve decided that I won’t delete my Twitter accounts, but I’m going to park my @LaughingGravy71 account and keep this one. I need to focus on the things that make me happy and that I’m passionate about. Nature photography is one of those things. Have some spiders 😅👍🏼
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I think we need to fill our timelines with amazing beautiful animals to cheer this place up.
I'll start with this hedgehog in autumn leaves. 🦔🍁
Over to you, get posting and sharing and sharing amazing and beautiful animals.
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Facing my dew phobia face on, well not really this is back on🤔anyway.
Loads of dewy goodness and frustration in this one to keep me screaming at the PC and helicon for not just sorting it, my god, can you not just know how shakey I am🙄 do better programmers.
67 shot – at Glasgow, Scotland
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Emerald damselfly dew soaked 5am shoot, 59 image stacked images.
@ClaypitsLnr @BBCScotlandNews @CommuniGALLANT @WildlifeMag
#onodata #damselfly #insect #macrophotography – at Glasgow, Scotland
“Don’t shoot! I’m unarmed!” It’s true, they are; they have legs, not arms. So I shot them anyway. Photographically, obviously 😋 #OMSYSTEM @OMSYSTEMcameras #macrophotography
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Saved at the last second!
A very attentive farmer in the town of Euskirchen (near Bonn) discovered a Marsh harrier's nest during the wheat harvest yesterday evening.
He was able to bring the combine harvester to a halt literally at the last metre …
A rather splendid Gorse Orb Weaver (Agalenatea redii), from a couple of weeks back. Mwynhewch 😊 #macrophotography #omsystem @BritishSpiders @OMSYSTEMcameras
A rather moody sawfly for your consideration this Thursday. A right bugger to expose at a level I could work with, but I got there in the end 😅👍🏼 @OMSYSTEMcameras #insect #InsectThursday
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My first ever flight shot of a little owl, and the chicks are practising their hunting skills. Only 22cm tall but a wingspan of 56cm @Hawkandowluk @Natures_Voice @BBCSpringwatch @BTO_Shropshire @ShropsWildlife @BTO_GBW @OMSYSTEMcameras @SWNS @sosbirds
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I had the camera on a tripod, pre-focused on the leafcutter bee nest hole, hoping for an in-flight shot. When waiting for her, another female bee and a Ruby-tailed Wasp also turned-up. This is a composite of 3 shots. I THINK the little bee may be Osmia leaiana? #Bees
Eye eye, beak careful! This little puffin has their eye on you! Just saying 👀 #OMSYSTEM #birdphotography #birds
This wee forest bug - Pentatoma rufipes - was blowing about in the wind too much to nail the focus properly to stack, but the resulting shallow DoF really draws your eye to the, er, eyes 👀 @OMSYSTEMcameras #macro #macrophotography
Meet Marjory. Marjory campaigns passionately for the safe passage of all puffins against the tyranny of the Great Black-backed Gull. To relax, Marjory enjoys inventing new ways to cook with sand eels. Her recipes are very popular in the burrows of @skomer_island 😊
A very teeny and very tiny shield bug nymph, possibly a bronze shield bug (Troilus luridus). I lost it after taking the 1st photo, but then I found it crawling on my arm 😅👍🏼 At least you get the sense of scale. #OMSYSTEM #macrophotography
I believe this is a Long Winged Cone-head cricket - Conocephalus fuscus, wot I found on my macro walk yesterday. They’re very shy critters, so I consider myself lucky to have got this shot 😅👌🏼 #insect #insects #macrophotography #omsystem
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Honestly this fly is all over @KneppWilding - Villa cingulata and this female is twerking!
She is collecting sand to cover her eggs. What a lovely mum (that’s obvs before she hurls her eggs…)
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