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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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30
May
2020
Flower Field


I’ve posted plenty of macro shots taken at Nutty Brown Farm recently but here’s a wide angle (actually, super-wide angle fisheye) picture of the flower...



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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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26
May
2020
Widow Skimmer, Nutty Brown Farm


I’m back to insects this week after another visit to the flower field at Nutty Brown Farm. Here’s another widow skimmer dragonfly (Libellula...



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13
May
2020
Oil on Water III


An abstract macro image of oil droplets on water. Unlike the previous two images in this series which were taken from directly above the surface, this...



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12
May
2020
Oil on Water II


This is another image from my recent oil-on-water experimentation. It’s actually a colour shot but I was using a black-and-white checkerboard pattern...



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11
May
2020
Oil on Water I


And now, as they say on Monty Python, for something completely different. A couple of weeks ago on a stir-crazy, lockdown Sunday afternoon, I decided to check...



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10
May
2020
Red Black and Yellow Crab Spider


This will be the last of the macro pictures for a few days though I suspect I’ll be back at the flower field some time in the next week to take more....



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7
May
2020
Bee in a Field of Firewheels


A western honey bee (Apis Mellifera) gathers pollen and nectar from an Indian Blanket or Firewheel flower near Dripping Springs, Texas on April 28th, 2020....



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6
May
2020
Honey Bee on Cornflower


A honey bee (Apis Mellifera) seen on a cornflower at Nutty Brown Farm near Dripping Springs, Texas.



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3
May
2020
Widow Skimmer


I’m going to stay with insect macro photographs this week because I spent a couple of hours yesterday morning in the flower field at Nutty Brown...



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1
May
2020
Bee Assassin


A flower patch can be a dangerous place for a busy bee. This one’s day didn’t end well after meeting a Bee Assassin bug (Apiomerus spissipes)...



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30
Apr
2020
Painted Lady


A Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) seen on an Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) in Dripping Springs, Texas.



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29
Apr
2020
Honey Bee on Indian Blanket


I’ll interrupt the planned rodeo theme this week because, believe it or not, I actually took some photos yesterday! I spent the hour before sunset...



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26
Jul
2019
Foxglove


Foxgloves were blooming everywhere we went in Scotland this summer. Here’s one we found on the walk around the Wallace Monument near Stirling.



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