Alex
My name is Alex McCarthy and this blog combines my passion for wildlife and macro photography. Although the focus of WildlifeMacro blog is on insects and insect photography, I will often stray towards other photography – nature conservation and - related topics. I hope you enjoy my musings and please don’t hesitate to leave a reply.
Attracted by its beautiful rugged coast-line my wife and I often visit Cornwall, particularly in the month of August. It forms a peninsula encompassing wild moorland and hundreds of sandy beaches, culminating at the promontory Land’s End. The south coast,... Read More
Porthkerry Park is only a ten minute walk from my home in Barry. I go there often, usually taking a long walk in the woods before venturing off towards the meadows and the pebbled beach. There is much to attract... Read More
I can’t believe that a year has passed since my last post! Last June – for the first time since I started this website (Oct 1, 2016) – I not only stopped posting but also had to stop visiting nature... Read More
The unprecedented warm and dry weather of April and May has probably caused mass emergences of species such as Common Blue Damselfly and I can imagine ponds and rivers teeming with damselflies and dragonflies. Dragonfly season is here and after... Read More
This spring might be a weird one, with being in social isolation and travel restrictions preventing me from going out in search of Dragonflies and Damselflies. Yet what a difference a month can make! Last month I caught the dreaded Covid virus... Read More
On 13thMarch, I joined Megan Howells (People and Wildlife Officer) of the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, along with a small group of wildlife conservation volunteers, for what was to be the last work party before the corona... Read More
On March 1st (St Davids Day) while taking the dogs for a walk, my son Daniel found a bumblebee grounded on the roadside. Concerned for its safety he carefully wrapped it in some tissues and brought it home. On arriving he... Read More
In my last post I gave an introduction and brief description of the Microflex that I bought on ebay. Since then I’ve had the opportunity to try it out on a few stained specimens to see how well it performs. I... Read More
The Microflex was used during the 1970s to attach a Nikon or Nikkormat film camera to any standard microscope eyepiece tube for high-quality 35mm photographs of microscopic images. It was designed for vintage S series Nikon microscopes of the 1960s/70s. ... Read More
Autumn appears to be coming to an end; with rain and cold temperatures becoming the norm. However, this deluge of rain and much cooler temperatures has not deterred me from visiting some of my favourite locations in search of fungi. There... Read More