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Capturing summer: the insects…
I am currently capturing summer in photographs (see here for more details).
Today is all about some of the beautiful insects I have come across on my walks. I start off with the bumble bees I met at the poppy patch:
I was trying to take a photograph of this flower, but found that I was not the only one interested in it:
I met this colourful bug sunbathing happily on these flowers:
And I said hello to this wiggly caterpillar which reminded me of the very hungry caterpillar and made me smile:
Capturing summer
I was out walking in the park yesterday and thought about how much I prefer summer to winter. Although it is a big part of it, the warmer weather isn???t the only reason. I think it is that everything seems so much brighter, so much more colourful and so much more alive in summer. I took out my camera and started to take pictures of everything I saw that made me smile. After a few hours, I found I had still not run out of things to capture.
I have decided that during this summer, I will take as many walks in parks and woods as I can manage and capture, in photographs, as much of the summer as I can. When the winter sets in and all seems dull, grey and dead, I will hopefully be able to find some joy in my little virtual summer.
A goat
I followed this goat around trying to photograph her. We finally reached an agreement where I would stand 3 metres away and she would stand still for a couple of seconds!
Life returns after a bitter winter
A nice sunny day and life returns to the garden after a bitterly cold winter.
The spider climbing down the wall.
A photograph I took of a snail.