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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Small Flower
$82.00I have no idea what this beautiful little flower is called. It's a photo I took in my brothers garden in Lower Hutt while I was testing out a new macro lense.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on...$82.00 -
Fresia, Purple-1
$82.00A newly opened purple fressia reveals it vibrant colours as the next bud gets ready 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...$82.00 -
Red Damsel Fly
$100.00A red damselfly in the garden. I love watching both damsel and dragon flies patrolling the garden hunting for insects. They're such precise flyers and amazingly succesful hunters.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either...$100.00 -
Companula Bellflower-1
$82.00A purple companula bell flower in the garden by our front door. 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 -
Companula Bellflowers-2
$100.00A clump of companula bellflowers in the garden by our front door. 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 Clover Flower
$82.00Close up of a pink clover flower growing in one of the wild parts of 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...$82.00 -
Clematis Newly Opened
$100.00A newly opened clematis flower on one of the trellis's 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 -
Clematis Flower Opening
$100.00A new clematis flower just opening up to reveal all its vibrant colours. This shot was taken in the Pukekura park begonia house in New Plymouth.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using...$100.00 -
Clematis Flower Portrait
$100.00Portrait shot of a spectacular clematis flower taken 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 -
Clematis In Close Up
$100.00A clematis flower in close up. I think these flowers are really spectacular.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 -
Clematis Montana Elizabeth
$100.00A close up shot of a clematis montana elizabeth flower. This clematis goes absolutely wild in spring agetting completely smothered in flower.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the...$100.00 -
Cherry Blossom-1
$82.00A single cherry blossom. The silvereye are always in this tree feeding on the nectar from these flowers. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe dye sublimation process...$82.00 -
Camelia Flower
$100.00A camelia flower. We see tui and silvereye both drinking nectar from these flowers during winter.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 Sow Thistle Flower
$100.00A common blue butterfly feeding on a sour thistle flower. A lot of people pull these thistles out as weeds but we always let them flower as both the blue butterfly and NZ native been regularly feed on them. Framing & Mounting: This image can be...$100.00 -
Blue Butterfly Standing On Nemesia Flower
$100.00A common blue butterfly standing on a Nemesia Aromatica flower. We've had lots of these beautiful little buterflies in the garden this year. They lay their eggs on clover so we've been letting that run a bit wild which seems to have boosted their...$100.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Nemesia Flowers
$82.00A female common blue butterfly feeding on Nemesia Aromatic flowers. These are beautiful little butterflies that we see in the garden from January through to early May.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas...$82.00 -
Blue Butterfly In The Hebe
$100.00A pair of common blue butterfly feeding on a hebe flower in our garden. These are beautiful little butterflies approx 20mm in size. The males have blue wings and the females are coppery brown.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed...$100.00 -
Blue Butterfly Landing On Hebe
$82.00A male common blue butterfly lands on a hebe flower spike 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...$82.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Nemesia
$100.00A male common blue butterfly spreads its wings before flying off after feeding on a Nemsia Aromatic flower. I always get a thriul when I see these beautiful little butterflies appearing in the garden during summer.Framing & Mounting: This image can...$100.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Hebe
$82.00A common blue butterfly foraging on a hebe flower. This hebe always gets covered in clouds of butterflies when it comes out into flower. Not sure what type it is. It's one I propagated from cuttings from our last house.Framing & Mounting: This image...$82.00 -
Bumblebee On Salvia Flower
$100.00A bumblebee in our garden foraging in the salvia. There's always plenty of bees in the salvia, it's a popualr plant with both bumblebees and honey bees.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium...$100.00 -
Bumblebee Feeding On Salvia
$100.00A bumblebee thrusting its head into a purple salvia flower to get 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...$100.00 -
BumbleBee Crawling Up Into A Foxglove
$100.00A bumblebee clambering up into a purple foxglove flower to collect pollen. When the foxglove first come out into flower in spring there's a constant toing and throing of bumblebees collecting pollen.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased...$100.00 -
Bumblebee Flying Into White Foxglove
$100.00A bumblebee flying in to land on a white floxglove. I love having foxglove in the garden because of the number of bumblebees they attract.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the...$100.00 -
Bumblebee Climbing Into A Foxglove
$100.00A bumble bee climbing up into a foxglove flower. I always enjoy watching bumblebees forage in the foxglove and the way they clamber in and out of the flowers.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on...$100.00 -
Budliegh Flower
$100.00A close up of a purple budliegh flower. Budiegh are great for attracting butterflies. We regularly have monarch and admiral butterflies feeding on the budliegh.Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on...$100.00 -
Blue Butterfly On Thyme-2
$82.00A common blue butterfly feeding on the thyme in our herb garden. This is a male, the females have coppery brown wings. We've had a lot of these beautiful little buterflies in the garden this year since I've been letting clumps of clover establish which...$82.00 -
Bluebell
$100.00I was always love seeing the blue bells come into flower during spring. This a newly opened flower taken in our garden in New Plymouth. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the...$100.00 -
Bird Of Paradise
$100.00The bird of paradise make a stunning image when they fully open in flower. This shot was taken in our garden during mid summer. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium using the Chromaluxe...$100.00 -
Honey Bee On Nemesia-2
$100.00A honey bee collecting pollen from a Nemesia Aromatica flower in our garden during mid summer. 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 Bok Choi
$100.00A honey bee in our vege garden pollinating the Bok Choi. I often let plants like this flower and go to seed in the garden as they draw in the bees. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium...$100.00 -
Honey Bee On Salvia
$100.00A honey bee climbing into a purple salvia flower in our garden. Salvia is one of the most popular plants in our garden for both honey bees and bumble bees. It is always buzzing with life. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on...$100.00 -
Honey Bee on Clover
$82.00A honey bee on a white clover flower on our lawn. As well as being good for the bees, clover is essential for the common blue butterfly which lays its eggs on its leaves hence I've let a few clumps of clover get established around the garden and in our...$82.00 -
Honey Bee on Rock Rose
$100.00A honey bee in our garden collecting pollen from a pink rock rose. 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 -
NZ Native Bee on Nemesia-1
$100.00A tiny New Zealand native bee taking off from a nemesia aromatica flower in our garden. These are solitary bees that collect pollen by rubbing it on the hairs of their back lags and abdomen often caking it on so thickly that their whole back leg...$100.00 -
Honey Bee On Sow Thistle
$100.00A honey bee in our garden collecting pollen from a yellow perrenial sow thistle or puha flower. We often let these "weeds" flower and go to seed as the flowers attract both honey bees and the New Zealand native bee and the seed heads are a source of food...$100.00 -
Honey Bee On The Sage
$82.00A honey bee landing in our herrb garden to collect pollen from the sage. 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 -
Honey Bee Landing On Rosemary
$100.00A honey bee coming in to land on a rosemary flower. I took this shot on Great barrier island in the herb garden of one of the houses we stayed at. Framing & Mounting: This image can be purchased printed on either stretched canvas or on aluminium...$100.00 -
Wool Carder Bee on Salvia
$100.00A wool carder bee collecting pollen from a purple salvia flower in our garden. The wool carder bee is a European solitary bee accidentally introduced into New Zealand around 2007. The males are aggressive and will chase other bees off the flowers that...$100.00 -
Wool Carder Bee on Knapweed
$82.00A wool carder bee sitting in the middle of a centaurea dealbata flower in our garden. These flowers are part of the genus commonly known as knapweeds. The wool carder bee is a European solitary bee which found its way into New Zealand around 2007. The...$82.00