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....
Here’s another of my extreme macro targets from yesterday morning. This little moth, about 2/3 of an inch across and which I’ve tentatively...
I spent some quality time in our car port this morning, playing with some extreme macro photography using insects sitting on my car as models. Here’s...
Heading back into the archives again, here’s a Flame Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) seen at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin...
Some time around Christmas every year, people stop going outside in Central Texas and spend 4 to 6 weeks hiding indoors waiting for the dreaded cedar pollen...
Here’s a slightly less cute critter I found while doing my recent macro experimentation. This is a flesh fly from the family Sarcophagidae. These...
Happy New Year! Let’s start 2022 with something completely different from the images I’ve been posting for the last couple of months. I spent...
Details of a Flame Skimmer (Libellula saturata) dragonfly’s wings seen at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin on June 19th, 2021. This...
Getting a bit closer today, here’s another Flame Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) I saw at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center last Saturday....
We took our first 2021 trip out to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center on Saturday and I took my macro gear along in case there were any interesting...
This grasshopper, sitting on one of the lantana bushes in our front yard, kindly modeled for me as I tested out the Olympus 100-400mm lens last weekend....
I spent some time yesterday afternoon playing with the new Olympus 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3 lens. This beast has a 35mm equivalent range of 200-800mm and weighs...
A Western Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera), heavily laden with pollen, on an Indian Blanket flower at Sally Bee’s Honey Company, Dripping Springs, Texas...
There’s certainly plenty of colour over in the flower field at Nutty Brown Farm this season. Here’s one of Kim’s blooms and a visiting...
A Four-Spotted Palpita Moth (Palpita quadristigmalis) seen on an Indian Blanket near Dripping Springs, Texas on April 28th, 2020. Edit: Thanks to Chuck...
An Eight Spotted Flea Beetle (Omophoita cyanipennis octomaculata) seen in the flower field at Nutty Brown Farm on May 21st, 2020. Thanks to Laura Griffith...
This is another Widow Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa) I spotted and managed to get a shot of before it dashed off during my visit to Nutty Brown...
An Eastern Pondhawk dragonfly (Erythemis simplicicollis) seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Thursday, May 21st, 2020.
This is another of the dragonflies I found at Nutty Brown Farm last Thursday evening. On returning to my computer and trying to identify it, I was most...
I’m back to insects this week after another visit to the flower field at Nutty Brown Farm. Here’s another widow skimmer dragonfly (Libellula...
