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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...
A white-winged dove (Zenaida asiatica) seen from one of the bird blinds at Pedernales Falls State Park near Austin, Texas on October 25th, 2021.
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...
We spotted this juvenile alligator along with several of its siblings and their mother during an airboat tour of a section of swamp just west of New Orleans,...
This will be the last of the Texas winter storm photos for now. The countryside around here is covered in Mountain Juniper trees like this one. They are known...
A Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) sits in a snow- and ice-covered mountain juniper tree during the week long winter storm that hit Texas in February...
A group of Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum) puffed up to retain warmth, perch in the top of a tree during the Texas snowstorm of February 2021.
This week’s posting schedule was rather disrupted by the historic winter storm that hit Texas last weekend. Things started going south for us on Sunday...
Apparently American Robins (Turdus migratorius) aren’t affected by cedar pollen the way practically every human in Central Texas is. Here’s...
Staying with the theme of small birds seen last weekend, here’s one of many Pine Siskins (Spinus pinus) I spied from the bird blind at Charro Ranch...
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been inundated by tens of thousands of American Robins (Turdus migratorius) feasting on the plentiful berries...
After a week or so of rodeo images, let’s move back to a few more-recent images for the next few days. We had an unusual snow storm in Austin a couple...
