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Back to Nature
June wasn’t exactly ideal for insect photography up here in Saddleworth. The temperatures were high, but so were the winds and finding a calm day was a real struggle. So, I decided to return to photographing small birds in the garden for a couple of days. I started to feed the birds a few years ago. At first, the food wasn’t taken…for two reasons, I think. First, the feeders were not sited in the right place and second, the birds didn’t much like the food mix I was offering. I now feed almost entirely sunflower hearts, which I buy in bulk at half the price of the local supermarket and…
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Small Skipper Butterfly
I've managed to get out and about with the camera a few times over the past couple of weeks, searching for insects to photograph. Finding suitable subject matter has been a bit hit and miss, as the weather has been particularly wet, cold and windy at times and Saddleworth can be especially harsh in its climate.
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A few more butterflies and bugs
The real excitement of close-up nature photography - how the most mundane and sometime downright ugly creatures can look amazing when all their detail can be seen. So, no apologies for brown butterflies or ugly flies.
