Creative sets - Meet Your Neighbours Highlights (64) More files...
Meet the Wildlife on your Doorstep


Founded in 2009, Meet Your Neighbours is a worldwide photographic initiative created by Niall Benvie and Clay Bolt. The project is dedicated to reconnecting people with the wildlife on their own doorsteps � and enriching their lives in the process. These creatures and plants are vital to people: they represent the first, and for some, the only contact with wild nature we have. Yet too often they are overlooked and undervalued.


Meet Your Neighbours images have an instantly recognizable look. Each subject is photographed on location in a field studio. A brilliantly-lit white background removes the context, encouraging appreciation of the subject as an individual rather than a species. Nature Picture Library is exclusive photo agency for M
Red salamander (Psedudotriton ruber) dorsal view, North Carolina, USA, September. meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Clay Bolt / Red salamander (Psedudotriton ruber) dorsal view, North Carolina, USA, September. meetyourneighbours.net project
Bank vole {Clethrionomys glareolus}, captive, UK
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Niall Benvie / MYN / Bank vole {Clethrionomys glareolus}, captive, UK
Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum), North Carolina, USA, September, meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Clay Bolt / Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum), North Carolina, USA, September, meetyourneighbours.net project
Composite of insects and flowering plants found in the meadows around Fliess, Naturpark Kaunergrat, Tirol, Austria, July 2008 meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Niall Benvie / Composite of insects and flowering plants found in the meadows around Fliess, Naturpark Kaunergrat, Tirol, Austria, July 2008 meetyourneighbours.net project
Two-tailed pasha butterfly (Charaxes jasius) butterfly emerging from chrysalis, emergence sequence 15/15, Umbria, Italy, August .  meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Paul Harcourt Davies / Two-tailed pasha butterfly (Charaxes jasius) butterfly emerging from chrysalis, emergence sequence 15/15, Umbria, Italy, August . meetyourneighbours.net project
Rosyside Dace (Clinostomus funduloides) (foreground) and Yellowfin Shiner (Notropis lutipinnis) Greenville, South Carolina, USA, August. meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Clay Bolt / Rosyside Dace (Clinostomus funduloides) (foreground) and Yellowfin Shiner (Notropis lutipinnis) Greenville, South Carolina, USA, August. meetyourneighbours.net project
Pink lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) Pickens County, South Carolina, USA, April. meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Clay Bolt / Pink lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) Pickens County, South Carolina, USA, April. meetyourneighbours.net project
Admirable grasshopper (Syrbula admirabilis) female, Dacusville, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA, August. meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Clay Bolt / Admirable grasshopper (Syrbula admirabilis) female, Dacusville, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA, August. meetyourneighbours.net project
Stink Bug Nymphs (Pentatomidae) three, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA, meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Clay Bolt / Stink Bug Nymphs (Pentatomidae) three, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA, meetyourneighbours.net project
Gray tree frog (Hyla versicolor) Pickens County, South Carolina, USA, May. meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Clay Bolt / Gray tree frog (Hyla versicolor) Pickens County, South Carolina, USA, May. meetyourneighbours.net project
Field Poppy (Papaver rhoeas) a weed of cultivation that has followed the spread of human movement, Italy, June.  meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Paul Harcourt Davies / Field Poppy (Papaver rhoeas) a weed of cultivation that has followed the spread of human movement, Italy, June. meetyourneighbours.net project
Eastern mud turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum) Dacusville, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA, March. meetyourneighbours.net project
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MYN / Clay Bolt / Eastern mud turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum) Dacusville, Pickens County, South Carolina, USA, March. meetyourneighbours.net project