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A western honey bee (Apis Mellifera) gathers pollen and nectar from an Indian Blanket or Firewheel flower near Dripping Springs, Texas on April 28th, 2020....
A honey bee (Apis Mellifera) seen on a cornflower at Nutty Brown Farm near Dripping Springs, Texas.
I stumbled upon another Bee Assassin bug (Apiomerus spissipes) during Saturday’s visit to Nutty Brown Farm. This one was sitting right on top of a very...
A Common Thread Waisted Wasp (Ammophila procera) seen on a cornflower at Nutty Brown Farm near Dripping Springs, Texas on May 2nd, 2020. A few people have...
I’m going to stay with insect macro photographs this week because I spent a couple of hours yesterday morning in the flower field at Nutty Brown...
A flower patch can be a dangerous place for a busy bee. This one’s day didn’t end well after meeting a Bee Assassin bug (Apiomerus spissipes)...
A Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) seen on an Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) in Dripping Springs, Texas.
I’ll interrupt the planned rodeo theme this week because, believe it or not, I actually took some photos yesterday! I spent the hour before sunset...
Foxgloves were blooming everywhere we went in Scotland this summer. Here’s one we found on the walk around the Wallace Monument near Stirling.
I decided to try something new yesterday so I broke out the macro lens and had a shot at focus stacking. This is a technique used to generate sharp, close-up...
One of the signs of the arrival of spring in Texas for me, is the first sighting of a Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) butterfly. I’m sure a sighting...
Lightroom tells me it has been exactly 1 year since I took this photo during a visit to the hummingbird garden at Selvatura Park on our Costa Rica vacation...
A red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) seen in the Rainmaker Forest Preserve near Quepos, Costa Rica.
I had some fun playing with my macro lens in the hummingbird garden at Selvatura Park in Costa Rica. This Scaly-Breasted Hummingbird (phaeochroa cuvierii)...
Selvatura Park near Monteverde, Costa Rica proved to be a fantastic place to visit during our trip last week. Among the various attractions there is a beautiful,...
The much-beloved Red-Eyed Tree Frog (Agalychnis callidryas) has become a symbol of Costa Rica and you see it portrayed all over the country in tourist...
I noticed these milkweed seed pods outside an abandoned barn we were photographing last week up in New Hampshire. I was surprised by their size –...
A flame skimmer dragonfly (libellula saturata) seen at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas this morning. This was our monthly 4-H Photography...
One of the thousands of orchids at the Garden of the Sleeping Giant near Nadi on Fiji’s Vita Levu island. We spent the morning there during a one day split...
Here’s another macro image from a recent visit to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. This shows a Blue Dasher (pachydiplax longipennis) dragonfly.
