Flowers & Fungi

Flowers & Fungi photography

Flower hunting

Basically, nature photography is hunting without killing. Which makes us, nature photographers, friendly ‘hunters’ in a way.

I don’t kill animals, but I do like the excitement, the anticipation, the crawling through the grass, that comes with sneaking up upon a….
Exactly! You don’t sneak upon a flower or a fungi…..!
And that’s why my main interest goes out to living, moving creatures, like frogs, birds, deer, foxes or insects.
Having this said, flowers can be irresistible beautiful and sometimes they manage to just attract me like a magnet.

And so it could happen that I imagined myself in paradise between the highway and the DIY.
I immersed myself in the world of a carnivorous plant that got eaten itself.
I even went out to chase fritillaries!

So if you think there’s no such thing as ‘flower hunting’…
Think again. 😀

Fairy World II
Chess Flower / Snake’s head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris)

frosted oak leaves

All These Little Lanterns
Chess Flower / Snake’s head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris)

Poppies
Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

Three in a Row
Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

Le Coeur
Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

Lady in Red
Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

United Colours of Autumn

Frosted leaves on a winter morning

Boheh party
Dewy chessflowers at sunrise

…and YOU are invited! Capturing an autumn forest is quite a challenge…especially when you don’t have a forest nearby. When you enter the party too early, the leaves are still green and the party hasn’t started yet… 🍃😔 But when you are late, autumn storms might have stolen all these beautifully coloured leaves and the party is over before it had begun…. Luckily I managed to arrive right on time…

Into the Lightness
Wood Anemone (Anemone nemorosa)

Fairy World I
Chess Flower / Snake’s head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris)

Out of the Green
Chess Flower / Snake’s head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris)

I already found my white christmas tree, somewhere in a dark, cold, wintry forest…

Autumn Moods

White Snake’s Head and a flying bumblebee
Snake’s Head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris)

The Dragon II
Great sundew (Drosera anglica )

Spring Snowflake Silhouette
Spring Snowflake (Leucojum vernum)

Beech leaf on an autumn morning

Amaryllidacea

Like a Painting
Chess Flower / Snake’s head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris)

Autumn From the Inside
Autumn tree

Echoes
Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

Solitude
Chess Flower / Snake’s head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris)

Kaos II Frosted plants on a winter sunrise

A weakness or a strength, a burden or a gift… Snake’s Head Fritillary / chess flower (fritillaria meleagris)

Natural Jewlery

Poppy Party
Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

Silence is Golden
Spring Snowflake (Leucojum vernum)

Spiderweb on a dewy morning

Golden
Chess Flower / Snake’s head fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris)

Autumn (de)Light

Mushroom Magic

Poppies
Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

Mushroom Magic
Mushroom in the spotlight