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Gallery: it Begins with a B

June 28, 2026 / 51 Comments

B hopeful, B happy, B cheerful, B kind,

B busy of body, B modest of mind,

B earnest, B truthful, B firm and B fair…

B grateful, B cautious of those who B tray.

B tender, B loving, B good and B nign,

B loved thou shalt B, and all else B thine.

‘A Swarm of Bees’, The British Bee Journal, and Bee Keeper’s Adviser, 1882

A swarm of bees indeed, and of course also a swarm of Bs. The letter B, the second letter of our alphabet, is one of the first a child learns to recognise. ‘A is for Apple, B is for …’

Yes, what objects do begin with a B? That’s the question posed by Beth for this week’s Lens Artists challenge. I love a letter challenge so had great fun trawling my archives for the following images. There are definitely some you may have seen here before but hopefully too some new ones. And yes, I’ve gone a bit overboard with the number of shots, but you wouldn’t believe how many things begin with a B!

My feature image is of a Tiger Longwing butterfly, taken in the butterfly dome in Selvatura Park in Costa Rica

B is for …

Baboon

In Chobe National Park, Botswana

Bison

Taken near Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Bear

Polar bear on sea ice, Svalbard

(did you honestly think I’d be able to resist sharing another photo of him?!)

Butterfly

Another butterfly, this one a tortoiseshell, on buddleia, Beadnell, Northumberland, north east England

Bee

In a Hampstead garden, London

Bald Eagle

In La Push, Washington State

Badger

At the British Wildlife Centre, Surrey

Bee-eater

These are Little Bee-eaters at Souimanga Lodge in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal

Beetle

At the Bohol Beach Club, Philippines

Bone

Whale vertebra on display at the small museum in Telegraph Cove, Vancouver Island

Baby

At a ceremony in Takayama, Japan

Barn

A late 13th century tithe barn in Ruislip, north west London, where I grew up (today used as an events venue)

Boat

Traditional pirogues in the Gambia River

Bicycle

In the Place Saint Sulpice, Paris

Bus

Chicken bus in Antigua Guatemala

Bridge

View of the bridges over the Tyne, Newcastle, north east England, with the Millennium Bridge in the foreground

Bottle

In the Old Pharmacy, Tallinn, Estonia

Beer

Kölsch in the Gaststätte Dominikaner, Cologne

Banana

Growing in Periyar, Kerala

Bread

Traditional bread known as non in a Samarkand market, Uzbekistan

Bag

Souvenir stall in Vigan, Philippines

Buddha

At the Peace Pagoda, Pokhara, Nepal

Bubble

In the Piazza San Michele in Foro, Lucca, Italy

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