Macrophotography

Macro photography reveals a world that most people walk past without noticing. The fungi breaking down the forest floor, the insects moving between flowers, the small interactions that underpin everything else. These are the foundations of the ecosystems we depend on, just at a scale that rarely gets a second glance. This gallery covers insects, fungi, and other subjects photographed in woodlands and gardens across Ireland.

Three purple amethyst deceiver mushrooms growing on mossy ground in darkness.
Scarlet waxcap mushroom with a rounded cap and a tall stem growing in dark soil with small green plants.
A yellow mushroom growing among green moss or plants on the forest floor.
A single white mushroom (steely bonnet) growing amidst green moss and foliage in a natural outdoor setting.
Close-up of purple amethyst deceiver mushrooms growing on the forest floor among green moss and fallen leaves.
Close-up of a rosy bonnet mushroom with gills under the cap, growing in dark surroundings with some leaves nearby.
A bee covered in pollen on a yellow dandelion flower.
Close-up of a drone collecting nectar from a pink flower with a green blurred background.
Close-up of a bee collecting nectar from a purple flower.
Close-up of a common carder bee on pink flowers with green blurred background.
A ladder backed drone fly, perched on a purple flower with pink and lavender petals against a dark background.
Close-up of an early mining bee with fuzzy orange-brown body and black eyes collecting nectar from a dandelion.
Close-up of a honey bee flying away of from a horse chestnut flower, showing the bee's detailed body and the flower's stamens.
A close-up of a dragonfly perched on the edge of a green leaf, with its large compound eye and antenna visible, against a blurred green background.
Close-up of a buttercup with a Yellow-sided Clover-fly covered in yellow pollen resting on the petals.
A ladder-backed drone-fly sits on a corn flower
A butterfly with orange and black wings perched on a purple flower, with several other purple flowers around.
Close-up of a green veined white butterfly with detailed wings, resting on a green leaf with a dark background.
A five-spot burnet moth shares some knapweed with a crab spider
A five-sport burnet moth spreading it's wings on some knapweed
Close-up of an alder leaf beetle sitting on a green leaf with a blurred green background.
Close-up of a cucumber spider hanging from a web against a black background.
Close-up of a sundew plant with dew-covered sticky tentacles, a red ant gets dangerously close to the mucilage on its trichomes, and green grass in the background.
A seven spotted ladybird climbing on a green plant with dewdrops.
Close-up of a ladybird on a green plant stem with water droplets on its red and black spotted shell.
Pink daisy flower with water droplets and a ladybug on it.
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