The bee in this photo is sipping from a flower with legs dangling down. Using high speed photography and robotics, researchers have found honeybees flap their wings 230 times a second. No wonder it is so hard to capture their amazing flight with a regular camera!

Rhododendron blooming in the southern mountains. Here in the Black Mountains of North Carolina the relatively mild climate allows the rhododendrons to grow into trees. They are at their peak of flowering now at higher elevations. Ethos foreground flower is tinged with the pink of new flowers which turns to […]

While hiking in the Black Mountains of North Carolina some massive clouds developed sending sun rays down on the mountains. Several holes developed in the clouds revealing small patches of blue high above. I shot this with only a trace of the peaks to give a sense of scale. This […]

Driving over the mountains from Tennessee to North Carolina today I stopped a few times to admire the summer clouds and mountains. I waited for a shadow to darken the foreground peak which gave it a slightly surreal look compared to the lush green in the distance.

Okay so this skipper butterfly stuck its tongue out since it had just finished feeding on a nearby flower. But since it was directed at me I figured maybe it was also bring a bit sassy for the camera

  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 […]