There are hazlenuts in the nut walk in Hogarth’s House garden – the first time there have been fruits on these young trees
Location: Hogarth's House garden
Date Taken: 2023-07-12
Camera: iphone 8S
Age Group: over_16
Professional Photographer? no
June Ford-Crush
A hope of life
I took this picture because I care for insects because I have many in my care, and it shows you how beautiful nature can be when close up.
- Aperture: ƒ/1.6
- Camera: iPhone 12 Pro Max
- Flash fired: no
- Focal length: 5.1mm
- ISO: 32
- Shutter speed: 1/322s
Location: Kew gardens
Date Taken: 2023-07-27
Camera: I phone
Age Group: 10yrs_to_16yrs
Professional Photographer? no
Interesting Red Critter
I was strolling around Dukes Meadows when I noticed some tree stumps and thought there may be some interesting insects in it to photograph. I came across this little red spider thing which I never even knew we had in Chiswick! I took this photo of it and was really happy with the sense of motion it conveyed.
- Aperture: ƒ/1.8
- Camera: SM-G980F
- Focal length: 5.4mm
- ISO: 80
- Shutter speed: 1/50s
Location: Dukes Meadows
Date Taken: 2023-07-13
Camera: Samsung Galaxy S22
Age Group: over_16
Professional Photographer? no
In Praise of Trail Cameras
Well the cameras take the photo, flash and IR all that good stuff, but you have to set the stage.
The actors never stand on the mark, never face the camera, and do the most embarrassing things
BUT you do get serendipity.
Green finches are shy and easily disturbed , it takes extreme skill and patience to get a good photo via the usual methods, neither of which I possess.
Enjoy, and they do still exist on Arthur’s pond on Chertsey Road Allotments, so a result.
- Aperture: ƒ/2.8
- Copyright: Copyright 2002
- ISO: 100
Location: Chertsey Road Allotments
Date Taken: 2023-04-07
Camera: Bushnell Trail Camera
Age Group: over_16
Professional Photographer? no
Aphid overdose.
I wanted to take the photo of this ladybird and then the aphids intervened, squirming away to avoid being eaten, no wonder he/she was static, aphid overdose…… Can’t hold the camera as steadily as I would like , so I have to locate stationary subjects as far as possible, this ladybird was so full of aphids he/she could not move, so my ideal subject. (Credit: Joseph Roy Forshaw)
- Aperture: ƒ/6.3
- Camera: TG-5
- Flash fired: no
- Focal length: 18mm
- ISO: 500
- Shutter speed: 1/50s
Location: Chertsey Road allotments
Date Taken: 2023-07-05
Camera: Olympus TG5
Age Group: over_16
Professional Photographer? no
NCIS Chiswick
A green bottle fly is an innocuous and common fly, quite pretty in some senses but it does frequent academic papers concerned with forensic science. The development of its larvae and immature flies does indicate the age of a corpse’s demise.
Strange but true, so I look on them with some respect.
- Aperture: ƒ/18
- Camera: TG-5
- Flash fired: no
- Focal length: 18mm
- ISO: 500
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Location: Chertsey Road Allotments
Date Taken: 2023-07-05
Camera: TG5 Olympus
Age Group: over_16
Professional Photographer? no
Blue dragonfly on flower
While looking for birds to photograph at Chiswick House and Gardens, I spotted some blue dragonflies drinking the nectar from a flowering bush. They moved around very quickly but I was lucky enough to catch one staying still, allowing me to take this closeup photo. Bees often get the spotlight for their importance for pollinating flowers, but insects like these are very important to the process as well!
By Pablo Rocha. RUNNER-UP. Wild Ones Category. (10-16yrs)
- Aperture: ƒ/3.5
- Camera: DMC-LX100
- Exposure bias: -3EV
- Flash fired: no
- Focal length: 34mm
- ISO: 400
- Shutter speed: 1/8000s
Location: Chiswick House and Gardens
Date Taken: 2023-07-08
Camera: Panasonic DMC-LX100
Age Group: 10yrs_to_16yrs
Professional Photographer? no
Flight
It was a very foggy day and I was fortunate to have the 210 mm lens handy when a flock of seaguls rose from the Strand-on-the-Green beach. They were flying around like something ftom a Alfred Hitchcock movie when a single bird flew straight in front of me and…click, click, click…
- Aperture: ƒ/7.1
- Camera: Canon EOS 2000D
- Flash fired: no
- Focal length: 169mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/500s
Location: Strand on the Green
Date Taken: 2023-02-07
Camera: Canon EOS 2000D
Age Group: over_16
Professional Photographer? no
At the waters edge
A very foggy day and a wonderful opportunity to take the camera out. A flock of seaguls were by the rivers edge as the tide was going out looking for food.
- Aperture: ƒ/7.1
- Camera: Canon EOS 2000D
- Flash fired: no
- Focal length: 28mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/125s
Location: Strand on the Green
Date Taken: 2023-02-07
Camera: Canon EOS 2000D
Age Group: over_16
Professional Photographer? no
Resting pigeons on a foggy day
Spotted these delightful pigeons resting on a very foggy February day sitting on the handrails of a boat by Kew bridge. Presumably flying conditions were just too much for them! (Derek Barker)
- Aperture: ƒ/7.1
- Camera: Canon EOS 2000D
- Flash fired: no
- Focal length: 250mm
- ISO: 800
- Shutter speed: 1/400s
Location: Adjacent Kew bridge
Date Taken: 2023-02-07
Camera: Canon EOS 2000D
Age Group: over_16
Professional Photographer? no