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.
Mimosa pudica is a small plant, often classified as a weed, that is pretty common around Texas. Its claim to fame, and the reason that so many kids love...
Cameron and I visited the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center last Sunday and I spent a little time taking pictures of the many Queen butterflies (Danaus...
How about a change of pace? Here’s a purple coneflower taken at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center a couple of weeks ago. The landscapes there...
Today’s 4-H Photography Group meeting was out at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center again. We shot flowers, insects and general nature images....
A Longwing Butterfly seen at the Cockrell Butterfly Center at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is one of my favourite places to visit when I need a fix of macro photography. Their displays attract many different...
