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Jack Snipe, Durham, December 2021
Red Grouse, Durham, April 2021
Garden Tiger, Durham, July 2020
Long-eared Owl, Durham, June 2020
Golden-bloomed grey longhorn beetle, Durham, June 2019
Jack snipe, Durham, October 2017
Razorbill, Durham, May 2017
Waxwing, Durham, March 2017
Fulmar, Northumberland, June 2015
Emerald Damselfly, Durham, September 2019
Barn Owl, Oxfordshire, March 2020
Purple Thorn, Durham, April 2020
Elephant Hawk-moth, Durham, May 2020
Yellowhammer, Durham, April 2021
Pied Flycatcher, Northumberland, May 2021
Peach Blossom, Durham, June 2021
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary, Durham, June 2021
Puffin, Mid Ebudes, July 2021
Garden Tiger, West Inverness-shire, July 2021
Razorbill, Mid Ebudes, July 2021
Sanderling, Pembrokeshire, August 2021
Fly Agaric, Durham, October 2021

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Here’s another Shaggy Inkcap. I found a nice colour gradient in the background of this photo by positioning the camera just above the ground, and shooting towards the sun as it filtered through the canopy above.

Common puffball. I love the intricate, spiky texture of their skin!

I found a few nice Shaggy Inkcaps near me this week.

Fly Agarics are the most iconic toadstools, but they aren’t to be taken lightly– they are poisonous and can cause severe hallucinations!

Fly Agarics are often found in the leaf-litter underneath trees– especially silver birches.

I’ve been out looking for local fungi recently– I found good numbers of beautiful fly agarics!

Puffin on Lunga. I took a lower angle for this shot which allowed for the out-of-focus rocks to frame the Puffin.

Here’s a Puffin sitting just outside its burrow nest on the Isle of Lunga from a few months ago. One of the highlights of my year was spending some time on this wonderful island!

Common blue – I prefer to shoot this species when resting like this. I love the complex pattern of spots and the dusting of blue scales!

A small copper from the Pembrokeshire coastal path. These tiny butterflies are stunningly vibrant with their wings open – they’re a little less eye-catching on the underside of their wings, but I rather like the more subtle hint of orange.

Here’s a male Common Blue that I found on a cliff path in September. They’re very common in late summer, but one of my favourite species to photograph.

I take the majority of my macro and insect shots in gardens– often this isn’t obvious, as the small world that this sort of photography shows looks like it could be anywhere. In this photo, I saw an opportunity to place this Common Darter in a more obviously suburban context.

All dragonflies have fantastic vision due to huge compound eyes. I took a front-on approach to show them here– I noticed afterwards that it looks a little like the dragonfly is waving at the camera!

I found a Common Darter in a garden whilst visiting family over the summer– it was hunting small flying insects, always returning to a similar spot on the fence.

Sanderling breed in the high Arctic but there are plenty of them to be found on UK shores during migration and over the winter.

Sanderling are very charismatic birds, and they make for excellent photographic subjects. I felt very fortunate to have such magical light to watch and shoot them in!

I found two very tame Sanderling on a beach in Pembrokeshire last month. I kept an eye on them for a few hours, hoping that I would get a nice sunset to photograph them with. I was not disappointed!