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A Western Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera), heavily laden with pollen, on an Indian Blanket flower at Sally Bee’s Honey Company, Dripping Springs, Texas...
An Orange-Shouldered Sherbet Moth (Diaphania costata) seen on an Indian Blanket near Dripping Springs, Texas on April 28th, 2020.
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...
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...
An Eastern Pondhawk dragonfly (Erythemis simplicicollis) seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Thursday, May 21st, 2020.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
A honey bee (Apis Mellifera) seen on a cornflower at Nutty Brown Farm near Dripping Springs, Texas.
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...
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)...
A Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) seen on an Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) in Dripping Springs, Texas.
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...
Foxgloves were blooming everywhere we went in Scotland this summer. Here’s one we found on the walk around the Wallace Monument near Stirling.
I decided to try something new yesterday so I broke out the macro lens and had a shot at focus stacking. This is a technique used to generate sharp, close-up...
One of the signs of the arrival of spring in Texas for me, is the first sighting of a Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) butterfly. I’m sure a sighting...
