Tag: macrophotography
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Bug Safari
I had promised myself that if I got through the editing and uploaded the working files for the upcoming book (Postcards from Foolz, due out from Raconteur Press this coming Friday) that I’d put a macro lens on the camera and go prowl the garden for a while. The thing about the lens I…
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Bug Safari
I finally found the time and inclination to do something at this house. After a year of living here (almost!) I got out the camera, macro lens, and went bug hunting.
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Pretty Pictures
I did a series once on this blog, years ago, that I called Beautiful America. Debating reviving that, but in the meantime I’ve been shooting bugs and country roads this month already. Now, I am not sure what changed, but recently the blog is refusing to allow me to upload full size photo files.…
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Marvelous Mosses
I went for a hike yesterday. Just a little one. I felt guilty for taking the time to do it. So there’s a metropark near my work. The Dayton area, which I call home, has something like 14 parks and conservancy areas in it. Next summer I’d like to hit all of them, but…
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People of the Mushroom Planet
So, the other day (ok, a few weeks back) someone shared a video of tiny people riding bugs. “You should do this!” They told me. Which does sound like a lot of fun, but it takes time, patience, and possibly refrigeration to train insects to carry riders. Beside that, where do you get miniature people?…
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Efferia pogonias
The Robber Fly, with his characteristic facial hair, is an accomplished predator – the hawk of the fly world, preying on a variety of smaller insects. (identification based on Herschel Raney’s site)
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Sunday Art: Assassin
One of the things about hunting for bugs is that I get to observe them at their daily lives. And sometimes I catch the most secretive of them in the act. On this particular day I was out with the macro lens, when I spotted a tachnid fly sitting on a Black-Eyed Susan. I maneuvered…
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Bug Hunt
It’s well into summer, and I have done very little bug hunting. In spite of having acquired a macro lens for Christmas… Money can buy stuff. What it can’t buy is time. I mean, I keep seeing this nifty pen set I’d like, and I have money in the art account, but… But I don’t…
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Shooting Snowflakes
The world is tucked neatly into a warm white blanket. Under the snow slumber the insects and arachnids I love to photograph during warmer times, so I am turning to my winter pastimes of preserving #lovelydeadcrap and shooting snowflakes. The problem with shooting snow… ok, there are several problems. One is that each flake is…
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Gotta Catch them All!
It struck me this morning that my laissez faire approach to insect hunting is slowly morphing into something else. I was stalking bugs yesterday after work, just casting around behind the house for some little thing, and as I hung poised over the flowers waiting for movement so I could focus and shoot, it crossed…
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Gone Buggy
I went bughunting today! All of these photos were taken in my front garden in early evening. I really do need to get out and do this more often. Enjoy!