Cheryl Davis Photography

07/06/2026

The Bugshelf has a new book review 😀👇🏻 A book that both delighted and frustrated.....

A book about bees. Beautiful, engaging, fun…..frustrating……

06/06/2026

I haven’t done a book review on my website for a little while, but that is about to be amended. There is one incoming, a book I both love and am frustrated with at the same time (but I could also be expecting too much 🤔). And then look what the nice postie dropped off yesterday! 👇🏻 Looking forward to getting stuck into these 😀

05/06/2026

Pest Control

A Braconid wasp, one of over 800 species found in Australia, all of who parasitise the larvae or adults of other insects.

Many species play an important role in the natural control of pests species such as aphids.

This one was happily sat on a tree trunk, seeming doing nothing much at all, though I am sure there were wasp-things a-play.

🐝 Braconidae (Genus: Callibracon)

📸 OM System OM-1 / M. Zuiko 60mm / Godox v480o flash / Cygnustech diffuser
📷 Single shot
⏰ Day Stalk
📍 17/05/2026, Baldivis, Western Australia

02/06/2026

One of the comb-footed spiders. Maybe.

Found hanging around looking very lovely whilst out on a night-stalk in the Daintree back in 2025. I've been meaning to share for a while, and here it is.

I just liked the part colourful, part translucent abdomen, and fine, delicate legs on this one.

* Comb-footed Spider species (happy to be corrected)

📸 OM System OM-1 / M. Zuiko 60mm / Godox v480o flash / Cygnustech diffuser
📷 Single shot
⏰ Day Stalk
📍 08/04/2025, Daintree, QLD, Australia

24/05/2026

Tiny Hopper

There's nothing like finding a species of one of your favourite insects that you haven't seen before, and this was one of those occasions.

So tiny I had to take a photograph just so I could zoom in and check what I was looking at, this little one is about 3.5-4mm long and was hiding in plain sight on a branch in the vegetation at the wonderful Daintree Discovery Centre.

Like many treehoppers, this one has an enlongated pronotum (hardened plate-like structure typically covering the first part of the thorax) which extends over the back, but also forward, forming a small horn at each side of the head.

🪲 Brown Horned Treehopper / Tiny Two-Spined Treehopper (Pogonella minutus)

📸 OM System OM-1 / M. Zuiko 60mm / Godox v480o flash / Cygnustech diffuser
📷 Single shot
⏰ Day Stalk
📍 11/04/2026 Daintree, Queensland, Australia

21/05/2026

Cam Blake Photography has released a wonderful (and free!) ebook on Landscape Photography - see below 👇🏻👏🏻

NEW & First E-book release
Landscape Photography - Making it Easy

It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally design my first little e-book on Landscape Photography. This is a 32 page guide on how to make your life easier when capturing landscape through your viewfinder.

Out NOW and available on www.tasphoto.com.au

-book

20/05/2026

World Bee Day

Bees are essential pollinators, playing an important role in pollinating not only our native plants, but also many of our food plants. Without them our food security, diversity and ecosystem health are at risk.

They are under threat however (as much of our wildlife is), with habitat destruction, intensive farming practices, pests and diseases driving a decline in both the number and diversity of our native bees. There are ways we can help though 🙏🏻: https://www.aussiebee.com.au/savebees.html

20/05/2026

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A poem for World Bee Day.

18/05/2026

A Lesson In Patience

Macro photography is usually a lesson in patience as things rarely want to sit still, or to sit where it is easy to photograph them, and this wasp was determined to do both of those things.

On the move constantly, it was on top of the plant, behind the plant, moving inbetween parts of the plant, on the next plant and on it went. I might have huffed and puffed a bit, and I might have been ready to leave it and try and find something else, but as if it knew, it suddenly paused and let me take a few shots.

I thanked it for finally letting me enjoy the way the colours coordinated with the plant, for letting me take its photo, and then we parted ways, the wasp to get on with its busy day, and me to lie down in a dark room 😂

🐝 Yellow Brown Paper Wasp (Ropalidia romandi)
📸 OM System OM1/ M. Zuiko 60mm / Godox v480o flash / Cygnustech diffuser
📷 Single shot
⏰ Day Stalk
📍 10/04/2026 Mossman, Queensland, Australia

11/05/2026

A Few Of My Favourite Things:

1) Takayna / Tarkine (Tasmania)
2) Big trees
3) Lush ferns
4) Sharing those things with fellow photographers - in this instance a group of photographers joining us on a workshop hosted for Australian Geographic Travel.