Wildlife in the Natural Garden

Heiko K. Voss is an artisan blacksmith and metalworking visual artist, living in northern Germany. Since his early youth, he has been photographing nature and engaging with ecological topics. Rambling through his wild garden, he finds hidden wonders in the everyday and captures them in words and on film.

• Looking into the crystal ball.- A riot of colours and a multitude of forms.- A new sighting in our garden of curiosities.- A chorus of toads.- Larch ascending.- Deep insights.- Slow worms.- Bright little things.- Snail shine.- Orchard in bloom.- I watched a blackbird.- A crucial difference.- Sawfly caterpillars.- The very hungry spider.- A wealth of colours.- Grass snake and frog.- Intimate moments.- Shadow play.- Nights under the cherry tree.- Red dot.- Incognito, ergo sum.- Garden photographs almost without creepy-crawlies.- Photoshoot with lizards.- Crikey, the crickets.- Fruit bodies.- Caterpillars and eyes.- Two for tea.- Our natural garden.- Butterfly with a benevolent smile.- Three little caterpillars sitting on a leaf and two not so itsy bitsy spiders.- The emperor dragonfly.- Peppered moth caterpillar in the blackberries.- A comma butterfly in July.- Master climbers.- Of bulging trousers, empty skins, rose caterpillars and mourning cloaks.- Sleeping habits.- For they have sown thistles, and they shall reap insects.- Courageous critters.- Orange Darwin wasp.- Of arduous paths and winding ways.- An acrobatic fly.- Wild weather hits our harvest.- A day in autumn.- After the rain in October.- Of creatures great, of creatures small and creatures in between.- The pitter-patter of tiny feet.- Cold nights, bright days.- The garden in winter.- Moonset.- A frosty night in the garden.- Winter feeding.- Surprise at New Year’s.- From wide view to close-up.- Spring awakens.- Nesting spots close to humans.- In sheep’s clothing.- Do flies have hooves.- Darling buds of May and June.- Orange legs and a long sting.- Hairy times.- The perfect camouflage and a good hunt.- Jumping out of one’s skin.- Potter wasps.- Lichen on trees.- Are caterpillars insects.- A turn about the garden.- The common scorpionfly.- Getting together.- Wasp with fly.- Spider mating season.- Peacock butterflies.- Well-camouflaged caterpillars and wild fruits full of colour.- Grace and ingenuity.- My precious.- Snails and slugs in our garden.- Between water and ice.- Bubbles underneath a leaf.- Caterpillars in snow.- Approaching winter solstice.- Hope.