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...
Staying with bird pictures today, here’s another image from a very productive morning at Fort Morgan, Alabama last November. This handsome brown...
Here’s another of the many Great Blue Herons that I found while walking the beach at Fort Morgan, Alabama last November. This one seems to be a juvenile...
An adult great blue heron seen on the beach at Fort Morgan, Alabama on November 21st, 2022.
Deer are a common sight in these parts and, as more of the area is developed, we see more and more on our (still pretty wild) lot. Earlier this week, this...
Happy Thanksgiving! I don’t have any turkey-related pictures to post today but I’ll finish this short series of bird images with another pelican....
I’m staying with the bird pictures today. Here’s another of the Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) from Fort Morgan beach in Alabama. This...
One of the things I enjoy about travel is that the wildlife that is commonplace at your destination is often novel and exciting to visitors. Here’s...
I headed off this morning to take pictures in Fort Morgan and, after doing that, took a walk over to the beach where I noticed a large group of pelicans...
We’re on a road trip this week and today’s stop is Orange Beach, Alabama. Despite the cold, I took a wander along the beach and pointed a camera...
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...
