#nature

Up close and personal with the local insects.

One of the first bees of the New Year

Fruit butterfly on a blade of grass in a field

In Europe at the end of winter or early spring, in our richer forests and in the forests of country estates, entire soil surfaces are often covered with the Wood Anemone. The white flowers are so close together that you might think there are still patches of snow in the forest. The flowers are...

I myself am afraid of spiders. Still, I think it's cool to take macro photos of them as long as they are smaller than 10mm. Olympus E-M1MarkIII Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm macro 1/125 F/4 iso 100 Stack of fifteen photos by hand. Daylight

Fifteen photos stacked in camera and out of hand.

I don't really like Kinderdijk itself, but that may be because I live nearby (6km) If there are nice clouds I would like to go there because then it is beautiful with all those windmills.

A flower from June 2019. Last year I was hardly able to photograph a flower because of the confinement. This is again the case in France from Saturday evening but with the 10 km allowed I should be able to photograph some orchids if they arrive in April.

a little last of my photo outing with hépatica anemones

Pulsatilla vulgaris

Fritillaria meleagris

Pulsatilla vulgaris

Pulsatilla vulgaris

And the flower is a Gerbera

Here I used the bracketing function in the Olympus. It is fifty photos then stacked in Helicon focus and edited in Photoshop 2021.

Nice though, when you come home, National Geographic's 2021 tear-off calendar is on the mat. Thank you for entering the competition, here's a free copy. On January 5th my photo can be admired all day long. Nice weekend

This photo was taken during the day but with a dark background (a hedge).