Diving into Reflection
Painted Lady
Flying Display
Small Tortoiseshell in Profile
Mallard Duckling
Young Swallow (close up)
Diving into Reflection
Broad-Bodied Chaser Dragonfly
Chaffinch
Common Blue on Fern
Common Blue
Fritillary at Arneside Knott
Peacock Butterfly
Swan & Cygnet
Pollen on Butterfly’s Eye
Male Orange-Tip
Woodland Foxglove
Poppy
Green-veined White
Puffin with Sand Eels
Force of Nature
Orange-tip Butterfly
Brimstone
Grayling Butterfly
High Brown Fritillary
Skippers
Skipper
Early Bloom
Great Crested Grebe
Poppy
Flowers in Suffolk Meadow
Gull in a Reflective Mood
Common Darter
Male Orange-tip
Male Orange-tip Close-up
Comma
Ringlet Butterfly
Guillemots and a Kittiwake on Isle of May
Nuthatch
Grey Heron
Turnstone
Black-Headed Gull
Young Swallow
Female Mallard
Mandarin Duck
Red Admiral
Blue on Grass
Red Admiral
A Very Small Sunflower
Rosebud
A White Park at Cadzow
A Yellow Tulip
Field mouse in our Garden
Whooper Swans
Good Morning
Home to Mummy
Whooper Swans in Flight
Two Swans
White-Letter Hairstreak Butterfly
springtime
Cormorant Drying its Wings
Barred Red Moth
Burnet
Arctic Tern
Duke of Burgundy
Ghost Moth
Magpie Moth
Marsh Tit
Female Goosander
4-spot Chaser
Young Swallow
11 Comments
ecopoet · 12 July 2019 at 03:44
Wonderful photo’s – enjoyed
HMB · 12 July 2019 at 12:55
Thank you for stopping by.
ecopoet · 12 July 2019 at 13:02
My pleasure 🙂
Untraveled Routes · 6 April 2017 at 14:44
These are so amazing Helen!! I can’t get enough of the captures, it’s like pictures are talking and it’s tough to pick one favorite 🙂
arlene · 20 March 2017 at 10:25
Such a nice collection of nature photos.
HMB · 20 March 2017 at 10:29
Thank you Arlene
Arkenaten · 7 July 2016 at 17:56
These are just outstanding, especially the Chaffinch and the Great Tit(?). Can you share the specs for these shots and what camera do you use, Helen, if I may ask?
HMB · 7 July 2016 at 19:16
Thank you very much. The chaffinch pictures were taken 5 years ago with Canon EIS 500D camera, Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM lens. ( I no longer have this lens as it got too heavy to carry around and my reactions were getting slower! )
Exif for these pictures is
1/2000 sec
ISO 800
250mm.
Plus a lot of patience and continuous shooting.
All the other pictures on that page were taken with a Canon 7D camera and either the 100-400mm lens or a Canon 100mm Macro lens.
I still use the 7D a lot with the macro lens.
I appreciate your interest. It’s always good to talk photography.
Eric Craven · 10 August 2015 at 23:30
Very sharp images with stunning impact. Huge patience was needed to get these top class results.
HMB · 10 August 2015 at 23:42
Thank you very much indeed for your kind comments. I find that when I’m doing something I love as much as this then patience doesn’t come into it! It’s more total immersion/concentration/sheer enjoyment/ whatever. I need patience when I’m doing a task I don’t enjoy very much.
Fresh - PHOTOPHILE · 13 April 2016 at 18:25
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