A double bill: Soldier Beetle and Lowestoft Air Show via Photography from Paul L.G. Morris
This week, unusually, I am featuring two sets of photographs in the one blog. The first is of a small orange beetle, commonly known in the UK as a Soldier Beetle. The second is a set of photographs of the 'Red Arrows' display team at Lowestoft Airshow which I took a few weeks ago.The Soldier Beetle:The first photograph shown above, is a close up of the soldier beetle. Is is feeding on the flowers of a hogweed - a wild flower of the hedgerows and verges. This, as with many of my close-up photographs, is taken in my home-made studio of a cardboard box with a black card background. I like this because of the detail in the photograph, not just the insect. You can see the individual flowers of the hogweed that make up the complete flower head and the pollen on the head of the beetle.This...