Macro gallery

Here are some of my favourite macro photos to date (from the first few weeks of camera ownership). I hope you like them.


Freshly-emerged Broad-bodied Chaser (plus exuviae), Picos de Europa, Spain (June 2004).


Detail of above.


Midwife Toad, Picos de Europa, Spain (June 2004).


Mating Graphosoma italicum, an abundant shield bug on umbellifers (not British), Picos de Europa, Spain (June 2004).


Unidentified rove beetle (any clues?), Picos de Europa, Spain (June 2004).


Unidentified mating beetles (any ideas?), Picos de Europa, Spain (June 2004).


Fly Orchid, Picos de Europa, Spain (June 2004).


Bee Orchid, King's Dyke Nature Reserve, near Peterborough (June 2004).