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Dead Leaf Butterfly – Open
This is the colorful side of the Dead Leaf Butterfly. The coloring and marking on the upper side of their wings is dramatically different from the bottom side of the wings. When the wings are folded...
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Crepe Wings
The early morning light was striking this monarch butterfly at just the right angle to bring out the tiniest details in its wings. Of the many varieties of butterflies I’ve photographed lately, I find...
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Green-banded Swallowtail
This is the Green-banded Swallowtail butterfly. Some might also refer to this butterfly as a Green Banded Peacock or Emerald Swallowtail. It is common to South Asia, including India and Sri Lanka. In...
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Monarch Flight
A monarch butterfly rises majestically above the patch of purple asters. I snapped this photo in a field next to my workplace. I’d been working on trying to catch the few monarchs I found in flight....
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Clipper Parthenos Sylvia Blue
This is a Clipper butterfly of the Parthenos Sylvia variety. The clippers, like this blue version, a nymphalid species. The clipper is a fast flying butterfly whose habit of never fully raising its...
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Exotic Pole Dancer
A monarch butterfly clings to a thin twig, displaying its beautiful markings and color. You can get a better view by clicking on the photo and opening a larger version All of the photos I post are...
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Monarch Squadron
All three of these monarch butterflies are in flight. They were circling, and eventually landing and feeding on, the purple asters in a vacant field near the building where I work. I didn’t see a lot...
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Monarch On the Throne
The majestic monarch butterfly is perfectly content to rule from his traditional throne – a leaf of the milkweed plant. To view more of the intricate detail, click on the photo and a larger version...
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Connect the Dots
Moisture from a foggy morning collects like jewels on a tiny spider web. Working on some macro photography and the foggy mornings have made spider webs particularly interesting. You can view this...
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Cool Dude
A macro view of a cool dragon fly resting on the buds of a hosta plant in our flower bed. Those eyes remind me of aviator glasses. Seems like there should be a cigarette loosely dangling from his...
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Dripping with Passion
On a foggy morning, moisture clings to a spider web. I love how the tiniest drops can form on the thinnest of web fibers. This is a companion to another image taken the same morning that I posted...
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Dark Damsel
The dainty damselfly is a predator by nature. Damselflies catch and eat flies, mosquitoes, and other small insects. Often they hover among grasses and low vegetation, picking prey off stems and...
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Tree Hugger
I love macro photography because it brings things that are small, and often missed, closeup and in sharp focus. It reveals the detail that we rarely have the opportunity to observe and enjoy. This...
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Mini Metallic Magnificence
As tiny as it was, this beetle’s iridescent, metallic green color helped me spot it among the plant life in a farm field. Funny how things often take a different path than you planned. I was standing...
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Sedum Bumbler
This time of year, the pollinators are busy in my wife’s flower beds. This is a bumble bee browsing through the sedum flowers. This is a comparatively small image because I cropped in, to enlarge the...
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Some of Your Beeswax
I was able to capture a close-up of couple of honey bees as they feasted on some old honeycomb. One of our sons has become a beekeeper. On a recent visit to his homestead in Ohio, I snapped a number...
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Predator
This bee was persistent in his attack of this dandelion. My getting close didn’t seem to dissuade it. As I approached, it would leave the flower, hovering a few inches above, and then settle back...
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Full Body Tattoo
I found this uniquely decorated spider hanging around in my wife’s flower bed. In our part of the world we call these large arachnids, yellow garden spiders. This spider falls under the Argiope...
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Beauty by Design
This colorful butterfly took some time to rest and feed on the sedum plants in our flower bed. I’m always intrigued and impressed by the color and patterns in nature. Surely, any reasonable person can...
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Beauty and a Beast
The delicate beauty of these sedum blossoms provide a stark contrast to the uninviting demeanor of a grasshopper who found a late summer resting spot. My photography typically focuses on the beauty of...
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