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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Gazania-2
$82.00A striking gazania in full flower at the Auckland botanical gardens.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 -
Gazania-1
$82.00A beautiful gazania flower at the Auckland botanical gardens.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 -
Honesty Flower
$82.00A purple homesty 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 high definition, vibrant...$82.00 -
Harakeke/flax
$100.00A harakeke or flax flower laden with fresh pollen. These flowers are a real magnet for the tui.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We...$100.00 -
Red Damsel Fly-2
$100.00A red damsel fly resting on a magnolia leaf.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 definition,...$100.00 -
Bumblebee In The Salvia-5
$100.00A bumblebee gathering pollen from purple salvia 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...$100.00 -
Bumblebee In The Salvia-3
$82.00A bumblebee busy gathering pollen from the salvia flowers.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...$82.00 -
Bumblebee In The Salvia-1
$82.00A bumblebee hanging from a purple salvia flower as it gathers pollen.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 On Oregano
$100.00A bumblebee drinking nectar from tiny oregano flowersFraming & 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 -
Honey Bee In The Salvia-3
$100.00A honey bee climbing into a salvia flower to feed on the nectar.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 -
Honey Bee On Thyme-1
$100.00A honey bee feeding on some thyme 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 their high...$100.00 -
Bee On Oregano-4
$100.00A honey bee feeding from the tiny oregano flowers. When the oregano comes into the flower we get hundreds of bees coming in, its one of their favourites.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on...$100.00 -
Bee On Oregano-3
$100.00A honey bee drinking nectar from the tiny oregano flowers, one of its favourites.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium...$100.00 -
Honey Bee In The Salvia-2
$82.00A honey bee feeding on the purple salvia flowers. The salvia is a favourite with the bees and is covered in both bumble bees and honey beees throughout the summer. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or...$82.00 -
Honey Bee On Swan Plant Flower
$100.00A bee collecting pollen from swan plant flowersFraming & 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 -
Bee On Oregano-2
$100.00A honey bee drinking nectar from oregano flowers. Oregano is one of the favourite flowers for the bees, they swarm in when the oregano is in flower.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium...$100.00 -
African Violet
$100.00Close up of the centre of an African violetFraming & 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 definition,...$100.00 -
Vibernum
$135.00A close up of a vibernum fower in our garden. This is an image stack of 30 images with different focus points merged to create a single image with increased depth of field.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched...$135.00 -
Pink Flower
$82.00A pink flower in our garden, not sure of its name.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...$82.00 -
Speedwell Flower
$82.00A tiny speedwell flower grwoing in our lawn.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 definition,...$82.00 -
Daffodil/Narcissus-4
$82.00A pale yellow narcissus in full flower in our gardenFraming & 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...$82.00 -
Yellow Magnolia Bud-1
$100.00A yellow magnolia bud just opening up into 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 -
Pink Magnolia Bud
$100.00A pink magnolia bud, rich with vibrant new colour, about to open.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 -
Rhododendron
$100.00A beautiful rhododenron in full flower at Pukeiti gardens in New Plymouth.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 -
Yellow Rhododendron
$100.00A lovely fresh yellow rhododendron in full flower at Pukeiti gardens.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 -
Pink Rhododendron
$82.00A cluster of freshly opened pink rhododendron flowers at Pukeiti gardens in New Plymouth.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend...$82.00 -
Fesias Yellow
$82.00A yellow fresia in flower during spring with a small aphid hiding on the stamen.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium...$82.00 -
Jade Plant Flower
$82.00We've had these jade plants in our garden for over ten years and they've suddenly burst out into flower with these beautiful little star flowers.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using...$82.00 -
Shasta Daisy
$82.00The lovely large white and yellow flower of a shasta daisy. 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 -
Lavender Star Flower
$100.00A close up of a lavender star flower lit up by the late afternoon sun. I love the form and colours of these flowers like they are constantly bursting out into celebration. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched...$100.00 -
Bumblebee On The Hebe
$100.00A bumblebee foraging on a hebe flower in our garden. Not sure what this hebe is called but it is one of the most popular flowers in our garden during Autumn for both bees and butterflies. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on...$100.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Felicia Flower-2
$100.00A male common blue butterfly spreads its wings in the sun on a Felicia Amelloides flower. 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 -
Blue Butterfly On Felicia Flower-1
$100.00A common blue butterfly feeding from a blue and yellow Felicia Amelloides flower. This is one of their favourite flowers to feed on. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the...$100.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Lavender Star
$100.00A common blue butterfly probing the center of a lavender star flower for nectar. We've been seeing these lovely little butterflies increasingly in our garden since we've let clover establish in various places which is what they mostly lay there eggs on...$100.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Flower
$82.00A common blue butterfly probing the center of a lavender star flower for nectar. We've been seeing these lovely little buterflies increasingly in our garden since we've let clover establish in varioius places which is what they mostly lay there eggs on...$82.00 -
Hoverfly
$82.00A hoverfly in our garden cleaning its front legs after feeding from a 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...$82.00 -
Hoverfly on Lavender Star Flower
$100.00A beautiful little hoverfly feeding from a lavender star 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...$100.00 -
Dragonfly
$100.00A dragonfly on the edge of a chair at a B&B we were staying in in Twyford, EnglandFraming & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process. We recommend aluminium...$100.00 -
Yellow Admiral-2
$100.00A yellow admiral butterfly on one of the support legs of the Pouakai Peak trig station.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 -
Yellow Admiral-1
$82.00A yellow admiral butterfly on a rock on the top of Pouakai peak.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