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31
Aug
2023
Golden Eyes


A final image of the Texas Dog-day Cicada I spent some time photographing last weekend. As with all the previous images, this was generated by focus-stacking...



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30
Aug
2023
Cicada Wing


A detail of the thorax and wing of a Texas Dog-day Cicada (Tibicen texanus) found near Austin, Texas.



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29
Aug
2023
Crusty Cicada


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.



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28
Aug
2023
Texas Dog-day Cicada


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....



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29
Mar
2023
Carpet Beetle


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...



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28
Mar
2023
Dangerous Path


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...



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24
Sep
2022
Robber Fly


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...



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23
Mar
2022
Flame Skimmer at the Wildflower Center


Heading back into the archives again, here’s a Flame Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) seen at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin...



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3
Jan
2022
Flesh Fly


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...



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2
Jan
2022
Gray Hairstreak


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...



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24
Jun
2021
Intricate Wings


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...



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23
Jun
2021
Flame Skimmer Up Close


Getting a bit closer today, here’s another Flame Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) I saw at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center last Saturday....



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22
Jun
2021
Flame Skimmer


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...



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22
Sep
2020
Grasshopper on Lantana


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....



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21
Sep
2020
Robber Fly


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...



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29
Jul
2020
Pollen Heavy


A Western Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera), heavily laden with pollen, on an Indian Blanket flower at Sally Bee’s Honey Company, Dripping Springs, Texas...



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1
Jun
2020
Four-Spotted Palpita Moth


A Four-Spotted Palpita Moth (Palpita quadristigmalis) seen on an Indian Blanket near Dripping Springs, Texas on April 28th, 2020. Edit: Thanks to Chuck...



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31
May
2020
Flea Beetle


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...



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28
May
2020
Eastern Pondhawk


An Eastern Pondhawk dragonfly (Erythemis simplicicollis) seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Thursday, May 21st, 2020.



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27
May
2020
Mature Widow Skimmer


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...



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