An Oak tree trunk in a forest surrounded by bracken turning from green to orange and yellow.
Autumn approaches. September 2025
#forest #trees #autumn #landscape #quantocks #somerset #Scape #Stunday #nature #omsytem #OMsystem #photography
dark clouds pour rain down onto a darkened landscape.
Downpour. August 2025
#rain #weather #landscape #clouds #Scape #monochrome #ClassicMono #blackandwhite #omsytem #OMsystem #photography
Mullein moth caterpillar eating its moulted skin. To the right of the caterpillar's head is the shed skin of its face and head. It's a very impressive and beautiful caterpillar, usually white but may be slightly darker. It has black and yellow spots all over the body. It's about 50mm long at final instar before pupation.
In this image the head is to the left and the tail to the right with a bubble of liquid. The spiky black hairs along the back are also visible. Below the last third of the body is a pale mass with the beginnings of a cocoon. About one third from the tail there is a dark area, a hole in the side of the body where the parasitic wasp larva emerged from its hapless host.
Here the cremaster (tail) is clasping an empty cocoon, the top neatly chewed off by the wasp.
Here is the tiny Ichneuman wasp ORPHION LUTEUS, the inhabitant of the cocoon. The female lays her eggs directly into the body of the caterpillar which plays host as the egg develops. When it is ready to pupate, it emerges from the side of the caterpillar, spins its silken protective cocoon and emerges about 10 days later. The caterpillar dies. "That's life, Jim, but not as we know it."
160225. The Mullein's sad story. @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #teammoth #muchadoaboutmothing #inverts #invertebrates #ukbutterflies #ukwildlife #gardenmothscheme #bugsky #uknaturalists #aurelians #bugmacrophotography #OMSytem #York,Yorkshire
Finch liftoff from a tree branch where the birds feet look like it borrowed them from the branches. This was midday flat, contrasty light where often the images look better in black and white.
Finch liftoff with interesting feet transitioning off the tree branch.
Shot midday with flat, contrasty light where often the images look better in black and white.
#omsytem #om1 #mzuiko100-400 #blackandwhitenature
Well, it's not necessarily the ultimate aurora image, but it was a pretty good start to our first full night in Norway.
OM-1 Mark ll & Leica 9mm F/1.7
ISO 800, 15 seconds
#auroraborealis #lofotenislands #northernlights #aurora #OMSytem #landscapephotography
Cute little dark eyed junco bird sitting on a palette overlooking some free leftover chicken feed in the compost pile.
Another dark-eyed junco at the compost pile this morning. #birb #darkeyedjunco #junco #bird #photography #om1 #omsytem #microfourthirdnerds #microfourthirds
Happy Solstice
A fuzzy fat little dark-eyed junco bird perched on an old palette by the compost pile.
Dark-eyed junco enjoying chicken feed leftovers at the compost pile this crisp #snowy morning. #birb #darkeyedjunco #junco #bird #photography #om1 #omsytem #microfourthirdnerds
"Cold misty morning" - Very chill morning in this fairy corner of the sloan preserve, surrounded by the magic of fall - jacopophotography.smugmug.com - #puremichigan #dextermichigan #sloanpreserve #omsytem
