David

Sunlight catching a spider’s web covered in water after rain. Miniature rainbows in the drops looked like hundreds of tiny jewels.

Ripening seeds on a plantain stalk. The surface of the canal near Swindon, out of focus, provides a near-uniform background.

Views of a single solitary wood mushroom.

Growing in the garden of Wightwick Manor – right at the far edge of the wood.

Group of clustered toughshanks growing on the floor of the woodland at Wightwick Manor earlier this month.

Gatekeeper butterfly with ragged wings resting on flattened grass in Barley Field at the end of last month.

One of the flowers on a himalayan balsam, with the seeds developing from previous flowers in the background.