Ant on a spring gentian petal (the Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland)
(more macro photography)

"Le Héron au long bec emmanché d'un long cou ...." Jean de La Fontaine, Fable V, Livre VII. (Ireland)

Diving duck, Connemara (Ireland)

Swan in Galway (Ireland)

Butterfly (Ireland)

a proud green-neck duck

Donkeys on Blasket island, Kerry (Ireland)

Bee on flowers (more macro photos here)

Seal near Tra Mor beach on Blasket island, Kerry (Ireland)

Ladybird (Ireland)

Swan in Kinsale Harbour (Ireland)

Wild camels in the Gobi desert (Mongolia)

Orca (killer whale) in Andalucia (Spain)

Seagull on the West-Coast of Ireland

Jellyfish in Bantry Harbour (Ireland)

Ganet off Sheep's Head Peninsula (Ireland)
see a painting here

Seals near Glengarriff (Ireland)