Victoria

Good evening 🌸

"Almond blossom, sent to teach us that the spring days soon will reach us." - Edwin Arnold

Wish you a lovely evening 🤍

#photography

It’s not a trip to London without a #swoosh 💫 although this is new stop to me as we are moving offices but it scores highly on the swooshiness factor #london #iphonephotography

A photograph of a medium sized woodpecker that is perched on a branch with moss hanging from it. She has her back to the camera showing wonderful black and white 'barred' feathers on her back and wings. Her grey/beige coloured head is in side profile looking to the right and she has golden yellow feathers on her nape. The background is blurred, mostly soft pastel colours in shades of green with spots of pink from the surrounding foliage.

One for #WoodpeckerWednesday a gorgeous adult female Hoffmann's Woodpecker from Costa Rica. I only saw her this one time when she flew in fast past me... she perched, I grabbed my camera, she didn't turn around and then flew off just as quick as she arrived! 💛

#photography #birds #wildlife #nature

Happy Wednesday 🖤✨

Happy Wednesday! #birds #ukwildlife #wildlife #nature

A great crested Grebe splashing and shaking off water in the middle of a lake. You can see the water droplets being shaken from its feathers and ripples in the water extending outwards.

Great Crested Grebe
Splashing around whilst preening.

#Birds #Feathers #Naturalists @rspb.bsky.social #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Grebe #Water

A splendid Solar Halo (first one I've seen in 2025) in London right now. An optical phenomenon created by sunlight refracting off ice crystals in the upper atmosphere #astronomy @stormhour.bsky.social @photohour.bsky.social

Views from North Wales including crashing waves and bay views at Trearrdur Bay, flowers from Bodnant Gardens, insects from Pili Palas, South Stack lighthouse, and a fabulous Anglesey sunrise.

#PostcardFromNorthWales What a weekend! 😍 What wonderful places #NorthWales and #Anglesey are, any time of year! I'll be back! ♥️ #BodnantGardenNT #VisitNorthWales @photohour.bsky.social #vitaminN #VitaminSea

Love doesn’t need a timetable 🖤 #shotoniphone #mobilephotography #blackandwhite

Halo halo halo ☀️
A sun halo opposed to the normal swoosh from the train #Nature #Weather

[ Going Nuts ] for growth of new feed
#bnw_macro showing #monochrome #macrophotography or close-up shots only #blackandwhitemacro #blackanwhitephotography #blackandwhite#naturephotography #closeupphotography

slim, curve-billed sunbird in which males and females are very different. Males are mostly black and dark green, with a red band across the underparts and elongated central tail feathers. Females are plain gray-brown above and pale with heavy dark markings below. Found in a wide variety of moist habitats, including wetlands, savanna, scrub, woodland, and gardens. This species is a Lake Victoria endemic.

A male Red-chested Sunbird checking for nectar.

📍Kigali, Rwanda.

🤯 that messes with my mind in a good way 🖤

Thoughts, mind’s reflection 🖤 #shotoniphone #mobilephotography #blackandwhite

A beautiful summer bedding plant over here 🌸 our current climate is muddy

Thank you 😊

A very late post for #bnw_macro #macrophotography

[ Solitary ] G’day all, as #bnw_macro doesn’t work on feeds, I’m beginning to suspect it’s the underline 🤔 so back to #blackandwhitemacro or using #bnwmacro instead? #monochrome #macrophotography #blackanwhitephotography #blackandwhite#naturephotography #closeupphotography

Black and white image of the head of a frosted fairy garden ornament. The black fairy figurine is covered in frost with some hoar frost icicles visible around he rforehead and on the crown pof flowers she wearsa around her head. she is facing the camera and is looking down towards the bottom left hand corner of the image. Image captured on the 11th of January 2025.

Frosted garden fairy
#bnw_macro #Macro #MacroHour #MacroPhotography #macropix #blackandwhitemacro

A bird in mid air, facing away from the camera, with its wings folded. In the front of the image is a rusty rod, with a bit of old string tied round it, on which is growing green lichen. The top of the rod has a black plastic piece of pipe. The bird has an orange backside and tail and a grey body.

A Black Redstart leaps off the top of a rusty rod in search of more yummy caterpillars.
#WorstBirdPicture #birds

Trees recede in the warm light of the early mist of sunrise.

Tilberthwaite mist

Life, a walk between light and shadow 🖤 #shotoniphone #mobilephotography #blackandwhite

Behind the scenes of my Fleeting Reflections. A super slow motion video representing what I capture in my still images. No AI, no Photoshop or CGI. #FleetingReflections #abstractphotography

Tiny finch with short wings, a red bill, and a long tail. The body is largely gray with subtle dark bars, a prominent red mask and a dark vent. Bill is dark in juveniles. Normally encountered in noisy flocks in grassy and reedy areas; listen for distinctive descending wheezy calls. Often found in urban areas outside of its natural African range; introduced widely across the world, including the Iberian Peninsula, Taiwan, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and various Indian and Pacific Ocean islands.

A Common Waxbill hanging out in a reed bed.

📍Kigali, Rwanda.

#birds #wildlife #naturephotography 🪶

A tree creeper on a moss covered tree trunk

Just a slight change in pace from the tree spam with... A tree creeper I spotted in Scotland!
Fast, elusive but rather cute little things and always a joy to spot one!
#photography #birds #treecreeper #nature

Good morning a little bit of #BNW_Macro #macro

This and second image taken with the OM1 and 90mm macro lens plus x2 extender. I have increasing difficulty holding this combination steady enough unless I sit, which I was able to do today. Pretty ice patterns on a very cold south facing window.

Again 90mm +x2 extender

60mm tiny, light weight and absolutely brilliant macro lens. This ice formation is shot with the fence in the background.

The sky turned blue and I was able to focus the ice formation against the sky turning the ice crystals silver on the blue background. 60mm macro lens again.

110125 OM1 90mm+x2 extender. Ice formations on the window. #OMSystems #macro #macrophotography #ice #naturephotography

Ice detail.