Yearly Archives: 2015

  This over the shoulder shot of a bad-wing moth shows its odd resting posture. It almost looks like someone sitting in meditation. Perhaps it is pondering the forest. This green moth blends in with leaves and is pretty small, only about an inch wide with outstretched wings.

This is for Throwback Thursday. Many years ago I studied monkeys in Kenya. These baboons and elephants were feeding on the doum palm fruits. Elephants are the main disperser for their seeds. I camped for a summer in Samburu National Reserve and enjoyed observing lots of wildlife. This is from […]

  After observing this ladybug exploring a shrub in the forest I positioned myself at the leaf where it was headed to capture its moment of flight. I used an aperture of f/20 to maximize depth of field and a flash to isolate it from the background. This photo was […]

Praying mantis playing twister on a flower. This young praying mantis, about two inches long, appeared precariously balanced in the garden.

  Last evening only hours after summer started a sudden thunderstorm popped up and a lone vulture braved the wild winds. There was violent thunder from several directions as these clouds swirled fueled by the day’s heat.

Bumblebees are enjoying sips of lavender nectar. This was a fun photo shoot for me since the bees were very active and the lavender flowers smelled great. I shot this with a relatively shallow depth of field to have sharp focus on the foreground bee and throw the background bee […]

  I shot this fast flowing mountain stream in the Smokies with a neutral density filter to slow the motion of the water and convey some sense of its power in slow motion waves.

  I was struck by the color of these maple leaves in the foreground spiraling up from green to red in an inverted seasonal display. With summer days away the red leaves newly emerging already hint at autumn. The tall peak in the distance is Mt. Mitchell, the highest summit […]

  Spring reflections. This was shot with a neutral density filter to allow me to use the bright but warm light of late afternoon to gather all the reflections in this stream. With a 13 second exposure at f/20 I maximized depth of field to create a symmetry of green […]