Some time around Christmas every year, people stop going outside in Central Texas and spend 4 to 6 weeks hiding indoors waiting for the dreaded cedar pollen...
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...
Getting a bit closer today, here’s another Flame Skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) I saw at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center last Saturday....
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...
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....
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...
A Western Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera), heavily laden with pollen, on an Indian Blanket flower at Sally Bee’s Honey Company, Dripping Springs, Texas...
A Four-Spotted Palpita Moth (Palpita quadristigmalis) seen on an Indian Blanket near Dripping Springs, Texas on April 28th, 2020. Edit: Thanks to Chuck...
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....
