Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!Â
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper! Â
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (22)
Richardphotos
very much a destroying critter
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
alanwilliams
how can anything so annoying be made to look so beautiful, nice one Andrea
kaward
Excellent capture! Training for the Olympics looking at it. A shot of a condemned man I expect!
helanker
DANG!! Now you know why :-/// Superb shot anyway. :)
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Salt salt salt Watch them fizz when you salt them :)
jendellas
Flip, that is amazing!!
MrsRatbag
Yikes, well fed indeed! I think it's looking for flying lessons...
blinkings
These little guys carry rat lung disease over here. Kids eat them or they are eaten as a joke at parties, and a worm thingy travels to their brain and kills them. The snail/slug gets it by eating rat poo.
Cyve
Beautiful capture!
goodoleboy
Good heavens, that has got to be some kind of voracious esoteric gastropod, sans spiral shell, in this beautifully focused and detailed image, A. Another garden nosher. You have a monopoly on all the insects in the world, including what could have been ours here in Southern California.
auntietk
I just planted out three pots and added a couple things to two others, and will be interested to see what, if anything, is left in the morning! LOL!
danapommet
A wonderful find and capture - did it survive after the photo was taken??? :>)
Faemike55
Very cool and interesting photo WADR, this one would not live long around our garden
wysiwig
Yeesh! The detail on this image is amazing. At least the caterpillar turns into a butterfly after its destructive rampage. Superb work.
Juliette.Gribnau
haha, well.... now you know ! superb shot !!
Katraz
Great shot and it looks like a big boot job.
whaleman
Someone seems to be enjoying them!
dakotabluemoon
Is That a snail i never knew they eat plants but then when i looked at blinkings comment that made me want to vomit how awful that humans would eat something like that yuk great shot girl.
moochagoo
really fascinating. At the good moment.
Blush
What a great capture excellent close up Hugs Susan
anahata.c
a stunning portrait of this creature, the clarity is beautiful; but the composition---with its body enveloping the flowers---is remarkable. The flowers appear to be growing out of its belly! I cannot, cannot, cannot do macro photography; in fact I've had insects literally walk-out of a shot because it was so bad. So when I see something like this, as if the creature posed for you after much discussion and set-ups, I get discouraged all the more. A beautiful, ultra clear capture, with a womb-of-a-center; and the creature's tilted-head is the perfect added touch.