International Garden Photographer of the Year 2013 - portfolio winner

Almost at the last minute I entered a portfolio of images in The International Garden Photographer of the Year Competition 2013 . It was a chance to take some of the images I had been assembling as my contribution to the Meet Your Neighbours (MYN) project where living subject are photographed in the field against a back-lit, white acrylic panel. The common element is that, in my wild garden in Italy these creatures were caught by the camera within 20 yards of the house