This is another of the dragonflies I spotted during my visit to Nutty Brown Farm a week ago. I’m fairly sure this is a female Widow Skimmer (Libellula...
A Pigweed Flea Beetle (Disonycha glabrata) on a scarlet Amaranth blossom at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Monday, July 27th, 2026.
I’m back to Nutty Brown Farm pictures today after I spent a couple of early morning hours there yesterday hunting bugs and birds. Here’s a Clubskimmer...
A Leafcutter Bee with a heavy load of pollen under her abdomen gathers more on a sunflower at Nutty Brown Farm on Friday, July 10th, 2026.
A male Widow Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa) seen at Nutty Brown Farm near Austin, Texas on July 10th, 2026.
A Bumble Bee forages in a dense patch of flowers at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin, Texas on Friday, July 10th, 2026.
A male Widow Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa) seen at Nutty Brown Farm near Austin, Texas on July 10th, 2026. It turns out that the male and female...
A Lesser Red Carpenter Ant (Camponotus decipiens) on the stem of a sunflower plant at Nutty Brown Farm, Texas on June 20th, 2025.
I’m out of town for Thanksgiving this week and haven’t been taking many pictures so didn’t post for the last few days. I’ve just...
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...
A detail of the thorax and wing of a Texas Dog-day Cicada (Tibicen texanus) found near Austin, Texas.
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...
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...
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...
