A slightly bedraggled male Widow Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa) seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Saturday, August 26th, 2026.
A Queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus) feeding on a Blue Mistflower seen in Pedernales Falls State Park near Johnson City, Texas on Saturday, August 15th,...
Let’s go back to some nature pictures this week. Here’s a Swift Setwing dragonfly (Dythemis velox) seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Saturday,...
A Queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus) feeds on a Mistflower plant in Pedernales Falls State Park near Johnson City, Texas on Saturday, August 15th, 2026.
A Four-Spotted Pennant dragonfly (Brachymesia gravida) on a dried sunflower head seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Saturday, August 8th, 2026.
A female Comanche Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula comanche) seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Saturday, August 26th, 2026. One of the techniques I’ve...
I spent another hour this morning photographing dragonflies over at Nutty Brown Farm and managed to pick up images of three species I hadn’t seen...
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 Swift...
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....
