Thursley Trio

Here are a trio of macro images from a visit to Thursley Common today.  This was my first visit of 2015 – and the normal large numbers of Black and Common Darters were not present today.   Either it is early for them – or I was not looking in the correct places – although they were my normal go to spots.

On the first path I walked down, I was pleased to find a mating pair of Small Red Damselflies on gorse.

Later on I found a resting Common Darter on a small stick over one of the pools.  This image has a subtle Topaz Restyle effect applied to give the background, which was greyish, a more warm tone.

Finally one of the many Common Lizards that were bathing on the boardwalks.  A photoshop Tilt-shift filter effect has been applied to blur background more.  A tutorial of this can be found in this post.