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Category Archives: Focus Stacking
Fun Friday: Changes in My Nursery
As I mentioned in a post last week, I have collected several Black Swallowtail butterfly eggs and caterpillars. They are housed in a mesh, indoors “nursery” in my rural Missouri home. I had been waiting for the caterpillar to begin making it’s chrysalis. Well, I went to bed on Tuesday night and the caterpillar was […]
Fun Friday: No Longer an “Empty Nester”
About a week ago, as I was walking past my rural Missouri butterfly garden, I noticed a Black Swallowtail that was busy laying eggs on a parsley plant (host plant for these beautiful butterflies). Yesterday, I closely inspected the plant to see if I could find the eggs … voila, I found about a dozen […]
Below the Falls
On one of my many recent hikes in Glacier NP (Montana), I hiked to Virginia Falls. Just a very short distance below the falls, was this peaceful scene, with a single Aster wildflower plant gently blowing in the light breeze, in front of some cascades: This is a focus-stacked image, combining two separate images. One […]
Also posted in Landscape Photography, Nature Photography, Travel Photography, Wildflowers
Tagged Blog, Glacier NP, landscape, Montana, National Park, National Park, nature, nature photography, summer, travel, Virginia Falls, Waterfalls, wildflower
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Ox-Eye Daisies
Today’s post features some prairie wildflowers from my trip Tuesday to Linden’s Prairie in southern Missouri. Ox-Eye daisies always catch my eye whenever I run across them on the prairie. At Linden’s Prairie, there were multiple, nice masses of these little beauties. Here are a few of my favorite ones: This next image is another […]
Also posted in Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Travel Photography, Wildflowers
Tagged Blog, daisy, Linden's Prairie, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, prairie, spring, travel, wildflower
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Noah Brown’s Prairie, Part 1
“Catch up” time! I was unable to prepare a blog post over the past couple of days, due to several activities. On Monday, I traveled to St. Joseph, MO for a private, one day consultation and yesterday I spent the day in southwest Missouri, photographing wildflowers on several Missouri prairies (even finding some orchids!). In […]
Also posted in Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Travel Photography, Wildflowers
Tagged Blog, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, Noah Brown's Prairie, prairie, spiderwort, spring, travel, wildflower
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Do the Dew!
Back from Des Moines. It was a mixed bag. Spent a day at the Neil Smith NWR, with the highlight of capturing images of some Ebony Jewel-Wing Damselflies … a blog post with some images is forthcoming. Then, wonderful weather! After a rather warm day on Thursday, a cold front passed overnight and Friday thru […]
Also posted in Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography
Tagged Amarugia CA, Blog, Cass County, dew, insect, macro photography, meadow, Missouri, moth, nature, nature photography, summer
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