Matthew Fells @matthew_fells@photog.social

#Birdwatching #skies #beach #sand #celestron #spottingscope

The corner of Crescent Street and Boulevard de Maisonneuve in Montreal.

#Montreal #LeonardCohen #mural #art #urbanart #crescentstreet

#caturday #charlee

Assassin bug nymph (possibly Reduvius personatus) covered with a layer of debris camouflage.

#macro #photography #Nikon #D7200 #assassinbug #nymph #insects #truebugs #Reduviuspersonatus #snapseed #maskedhunter #predators

A garden-variety pollen junky

#bees #insectphotography #insects #flowers #pollination #D7200 #Nikon #Tamron #90mm #macro #snapseed

A type of ichneumon wasp (Mesostenus thoracicus) on an unopened flower bud.

#Nikon #D7200 #wasps #ichneumonwasp #insects #insectphotography #photography #Vivitar #Series1 #90180mm #fossphotography #darktable #GnuIMP #Mesostenusthoracicus

A drone or flower fly (Syrphidae sp.), probably a transverse-banded flower fly (Eristalis transversa) gathering pollen from a brown-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta) flower.

#Nikon #D7200 #Vivitar #90180mm #Series1 #macro #macrophotography #photography #insectphotography #fossphotography #darktable #GnuIMP #insects #flowers #flowerflies #Syrphidae #Eristalistransversa #browneyedsusan #Rudbeckiahirta #droneflies

A spider with prey under a brown-eyed susan leaf.

#lifeinthegarden #spiders #predatorsandprey #browneyedsusan #fossphotography #darktable #GnuIMP #photography #macro #Nikon #D7200 #Vivitar #Series1 #90180mm #backyardphotography

A bee fly (Geron sp.) standing on the centre of a brown-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta).

#Nikon #D7200 #flies #insects #macro #photography #fossphtoography #Geron #browneyedsusan #Rudbeckiahirta #darktable #Vivitar #Series1 #80190mm

Flower fly (Syrphidae sp.)

#Nikon #D7200 #Vivitar #Series1 #90180mm #macrophotography #macro #flies #flowerflies #Syrphidae #backyardphotography #fossphotography #darktable #GnuIMP

The City of Toronto doesn't look so big from Hamilton.

#Toronto #Hamilton #D750 #darktable #fossphotography #photography #landscapes #Nikon #85mm

Two skipper butterflies on a hoary vervain inflorescence.

#pixel6pro #snapseed #skippers #butterflies #insects #Verbenastricta #verbena #vervain #flowers #photography #Hesperiidae

Virginia ctenucha moth (Ctenucha virginica)

Bonus flower fly in the background.

#moths #Ctenucha #Ctenuchavirginica #insects #Nikon #D750 #28105mm #fossphotography #darktable #insectphotography #photography

It's #NationalCameraDay today.

Here's to my cameras, and yours!

#Nikon D750
Nikon D7200
Nikon #Coolpix A
Nikon FG
Nikon EM
Nikon #Nikkormat
Nikon 1 V2
#Fujifilm X-T20
#Kodak Brownie
And some others that I've forgotten.

#photography #gearacquisitionsyndrome #cameras

The ocean is a big place.

#photography #seascape #fishingboat #fishing #ocean #fossphotography #darktable #Nikon #D750 #Tamron #2470mm #blue

Black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) fishing in Percé, Quebec.

#birds #birdphotography #photography #fossphotography #darktable #sigma #150600mm #Nikon #D750 #gulls #blackleggedkittiwake #kittiwake #Rissatridactyla

Percé Rock, Percé, Quebec

#clouds #percérock #percé #seashore #fossphotography #photography #landscape #seascape #darktable #Nikon #D750 #Sigma #150600mm

Bunchberries (Cornus canadensis)

#plants #bunchberries #Cornuscanadensis #snapseed #pixel6pro #creepingdogwood #quatretemps #crackerberry

Miramichi, New Brunswick

#Miramichi #NewBrunswick #photography #travelphotography #pixel6pro #snapseed #bridges

Alder flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum)

#nikon #d750 #sigma #150600mm #birds #flycatchers #Empidonaxalnorum #photography #birdphotography