Flowers & Insects
Close up nature photography by photographer Alec Messenger of flowers, bees, butterflies and other insects showing the great beauty of our flora and fauna. Printed images are available on canvas or aluminium with our recommendation to show these nature photos at there best being aluminium with a matt finish. These images look great when mounted in pairs or sets. All images also available as stock photos in jpeg format.
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Red Admiral Butterfly-1
$100.00One of our beautiful native butterflies, a red admiral. I spotted this butterfly sunning itself on the side of a track in Egmont National Park.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using...$100.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Nemesia-2
$100.00A beautiful little female blue butterfly on nemesia aromatica flowers with its wings spread Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend...$100.00 -
Monarch Butterfly-12
$100.00A monarch butterfly in our garden feeding on a purple salvia flower.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$100.00 -
Bumblebee On Hebe
$82.00A bumblebee gathering pollen from a hebe flower in our garden. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their...$82.00 -
Honey Bee on Lavender
$100.00A honey bee drinking nectar from a lavender in our garden. This is a lavandula joyful cherub. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We...$100.00 -
Honey Bee On Flax Flower
$100.00A honey bee coming into land on a flax flower in our garden. I spent ages waiting patiently by the flax over several days to get this photo but after many blurred and fuzzy images my patience eventually paid off. Note the full pollen sacks on the hind...$100.00 -
Bumblebee On Salvia
$100.00A bumblebee gathering pollen from a purple salvia flower in our garden.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due...$100.00 -
Praying Mantis
$100.00A baby praying mantis. The tiny mantis fell into the kettle just as I was closing the lid and about to boil some water. I fished him out and took his photo while he was drying out. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either...$100.00 -
Succulent Flower-1
$82.00A close up of a red succulent fower, kalanchoe blassfeldiana. This flower is about 8mm across. The image is compiled as an focus stack from 44 different photos with the focus adjusted by 0.25mm between each shot.Framing & Mounting: This image can be...$82.00 -
Yellow Admiral-3
$100.00A yellow admiral on the lasiandra in our garden.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their high...$100.00 -
Monarch Butterfly-7
$82.00A monarch butterfly landing to feed on a hebe flower in our garden. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$82.00 -
Bumblebee Flying Toward A Foxglove
$82.00A bumblebee flies in to land on a foxglove. I always let plenty of foxgloves grow in various places around the garden since they are so popular with the bumble bees.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or...$82.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Thyme-3
$82.00A male common blue butterfly landing on the thyme in our herb garden. We've had a lot of these beautiful little butterflies in the garden this year. They lay their eggs on clover and we've been getting a lot more of them in the garden now that we've been...$82.00 -
NZ Native Bee On Nemesia-2
$100.00A New Zealand native bee collects pollen from a Nemesia Aromatica flower in our garden. These tiny little solitary bees collect pollen by rubbing it onto the hairs on their back legs and abdomen. They're very active and typically only spend a few seconds...$100.00 -
Honey Bee on Nemesia-1
$100.00A honey bee in our garden collecting pollen from a Nemesia Aromatica flower. These Nemesia flower steadily from Spring through to Autumn and though they're not the most popular flower in the garden for bees there's always a few bees somewhere amongst...$100.00 -
Purple Fresia
$100.00A purple fresia in full flower.This is a photostack image made up of 35 images taken at slightly different focal depths then compiled into a single image using Zarene Photo Stacker.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either...$100.00 -
Beesting Rhododendron-2
$100.00A beesting rhododendron. One of my favourite flowers in our garden.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$100.00 -
Purple Yellow Iris
$100.00A beautiful vibrant petal form a freshly opened iris.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their high...$100.00 -
Glade Copper Butterfly-3
$100.00One of New Zealands native copper butterflies - a glade copper.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their...$100.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Nemesia Flower
$82.00A common blue butterfly feeding on a Nemesia Aromatica flower in our garden. We've had lots of these beautiful little butterflies in the garden this summer. There's always afew them sonewhere in the nemesia. Framing & Mounting: This image can be...$82.00 -
Monarch Butterfly-13
$135.00A monarch butterfly lands to feed on a purple salvia flower in our garden on Frankley Rd, New Plymouth.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We...$135.00 -
Bumblebee Flying Into A Foxglove
$82.00A bumblebee flying in to land on a foxglove flower. The fosgloves are always popular with the bumblebees when they start flowering in spring.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the...$82.00 -
Honey Bee In The Sage
$82.00A honey bee climbing into a sage flower to collect pollen and nectar. The sage is always popular with both bees and bumble bees. I love the contrast of the little godlen bee bodies against the purple flowers. Framing & Mounting: This image can be...$82.00 -
Honey Bee On Rosemery
$82.00A honey bee just landing on a flower in the rosemary. This photo was taken in the garden of a house we stayed in on Great Barrier island during April 2017. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on...$82.00 -
Bumblebee Landing On Honesty
$135.00Bumblebee coming in to land on an honesty flower.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their high...$135.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Hebe-3
$100.00A beautiful little common blue butterfly on a hebe flower in our garden.]Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints...$100.00 -
Orb Web Spider
$135.00A tiny orb web spider hanging fro the undesode of its web - waiting.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to...$135.00 -
NZ Native Bee On Nemesia-3
$100.00One of our tiny little NZ native bees, a lasioglossum bee, coming in to land on a nemesia aromatica flower. These are solitary beees that live in burrows in bare groundor clay banks. Note the pollen packed onto its back legs.Framing & Mounting: This...$100.00 -
Clematis Up Close
$100.00A clematis opening up, a wonderful expression of the incomparable beauty of existence.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend...$100.00 -
Rhododendron White-2
$100.00A stunning close up image of a rhododendron flower.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints due to their high...$100.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Felicia Flower-3
$100.00A male common blue butterfly feeds on the nectar from a Felicia Amelloides flower in our garden. The males have blue scale over their wings wheras the female only have a small amount of blue with the wings mostly a coppery brown or gray. Framing &...$100.00 -
Monarch Butterfly-5
$82.00A monarch butterfly landing to feed on a eucolyptus flower in our garden.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium prints...$82.00 -
Monarch Butterfly-4
$82.00A monarch butterfly drinking nectar from a hebe flower in our garden on Frankley Rd, New Plymouth.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We...$82.00 -
Bumble Landing On Salvia
$100.00A bumblebee lands to feed on a salvia flower. The salvia is very popular with both bumblebees and honey bees. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation...$100.00 -
Monarch Butterfly In The Salvia-2
$100.00I love the colouring of this gorgeous monrch butterfly perched on a salvia flower stem.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend...$100.00 -
Beesting Rhododendron-1
$100.00A stunning image of a beesting rhododendron flower taken in our garden. This image has been compled by stacking 25 separate images to get the increased depth of field.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas...$100.00 -
Honey Bee On Nemesia Aromatica
$100.00A honey bee gathering nectar and pollen from a Nemesia Aromatica flower in our garden. Note the bright yellow pollen sack on its hind leg. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using...$100.00 -
Monarch Butterfly-15
$100.00A monarch butterfly stretches its wings while feeding on golden dewdrop flowers (duranta erecta)Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We...$100.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Thyme-4
$82.00A common blue butterfly on a flower spike in the thyme. I love seeing these beautiful little butterflies in the garden and have let clumps of clover establish which is what they lay there eggs on.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased...$82.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Thyme-1
$100.00A common blue butterfly spreading its wings in the sun as it feeds on nectar from the thyme in our herb garden. This is a female, the males wings are pale blue. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on...$100.00