A female Comanche Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula comanche) seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Saturday, August 26th, 2026. One of the techniques I’ve...
I spent another hour this morning photographing dragonflies over at Nutty Brown Farm and managed to pick up images of three species I hadn’t seen...
This is another of the dragonflies I spotted during my visit to Nutty Brown Farm a week ago. I’m fairly sure this is a female Widow Skimmer (Libellula...
You wouldn’t believe how difficult it is (for me, at least) to identify Crab Spiders. There are so many species and individuals in the same species...
I almost walked right into this Yellow Garden Spider (Argiope aurantia) while walking along a shaded row of plants at Nutty Brown Farm last Monday morning....
A Pigweed Flea Beetle (Disonycha glabrata) on a scarlet Amaranth blossom at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Monday, July 27th, 2026.
I’m back to Nutty Brown Farm pictures today after I spent a couple of early morning hours there yesterday hunting bugs and birds. Here’s a Swift...
A male Widow Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa) seen at Nutty Brown Farm near Austin, Texas on July 10th, 2026. It turns out that the male and female...
A Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) on a blue cornflower at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin, Texas on June 20th, 2025.
This tiny moth, perhaps half an inch long, sat on a flower long enough for me to get a few pictures of it during my visit to Nutty Brown Farm last week....
A Lesser Red Carpenter Ant (Camponotus decipiens) on the stem of a sunflower plant at Nutty Brown Farm, Texas on June 20th, 2025.
I got up early this morning and headed over to the flower field at Nutty Brown Farm for an hour or so to try out a new macro flash diffuser I picked up recently....
I’m out of town for Thanksgiving this week and haven’t been taking many pictures so didn’t post for the last few days. I’ve just...
A final image of the Texas Dog-day Cicada I spent some time photographing last weekend. As with all the previous images, this was generated by focus-stacking...
A detail of the thorax and wing of a Texas Dog-day Cicada (Tibicen texanus) found near Austin, Texas.
Another image of the dead Texas Dog-day Cicada (Tibicen texanus) I found over the weekend. This is a 28 exposure stack taken under natural light.
I found a large but very dead cicada in our carport yesterday so decided to use it to experiment with some extreme macro photography and focus stacking....
A carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci) foraging inside a wild garlic flower. This is really more a shot of the flower than the beetle and I love the subtle...
I broke out the macro equipment on Sunday afternoon to play with some of the automated focus bracketing and stacking modes in the OM-1. While taking pictures...
An extremely close image of a moth, tentatively identified as a Texas Common Gray (Glenoides texanaria). Identifying moths is a tricky business, for me at least....
