Niall Sheffield

Animals

The wild things keep to their own world and answer to none of our rules. They live by the old laws of hunger and instinct and the turning seasons, watchful and quick, here one moment and gone the next.

Common Blue Damselfly
Common Blue Damselfly
Four-spotted Chaser
Four-spotted Chaser
Black-tailed Skimmer
Black-tailed Skimmer
Four-spotted Chaser
Four-spotted Chaser
A four-spotted chaser dragonfly perched on a forked bare twig, wings outstretched against a soft blue background.
On the Branch
A dragonfly resting on a slender twig above deep blue still water in low light.
Over Still Water