The father of a friend of mine lives not only in a beautiful old half-timbered house but also has created a marvellous wildlife garden. Over many years he has created a quite large area with a pond with only those plants that have originally inhabited this area. The garden is his contribution to providing a sustainable habitat for the wildlife, insects in particular, but also others like tree frogs. This species once was widespread in Germany as well as other countries. Due to intensive farming, use of pesticides, draining of wetlands and other human intervention, however, the tree frogs’ habitat has been fragmented and reduced. So today, tree frogs in many areas in Germany can no longer be found. In this wildlife garden on the other hand, they abound.

The frog in this image would not have climbed onto this flower out of free will. Rather, he was placed right on the flower by that friend of mine. While the frog climbed back to safe grounds along the stalk, I took several photos. This is the one I like best. This photograph was made with a Canon EOS 6D and an EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens. The exposure was 1/640 second at f/5.6 and ISO 800. The photograph was edited in Adobe Lightroom. You can find this photo along with others from this garden visit in my album Naturgarten Kalle Niehus.