Dragonfly Bubblebath

By Jim | Published August 29, 2013




Yesterday morning, I posted on a dew-covered Cicada. Today’s post features another dew-covered critter I found on that wonderful morning, a dew-covered Dragonfly in the prairie grass. Besides the wonderful photo opps of such a find, the dragonfly is essentially “helpless”, allowing you to move around quite easily and take a lot of photos, from […]

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Fun Friday: Reflections of Nature

By Jim | Published July 26, 2013




Today’s Fun Friday post is not a funny or cute photo, like they often are. Rather, it is just a “fun” photo that I enjoyed making while photographing at the Lee Metcalf NWR in SW Montana. Reflections always captivate me and I was really mesmerized, not only by the reflections of the cattails in the […]

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More Images from the Prairie Meadow (Re-post)

By Jim | Published December 22, 2012




(This post originally published in August, 2010) Continuing from yesterday’s post of recent images from my nearby prairie meadow (if you missed that post, click on this link: Yesterday in the Prairie Meadow), today’s post has a few wildflowers and an interesting critter I ran across. As you may recall, there was an extremely heavy dew that […]

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Early Morning Dewdrops

By Jim | Published November 6, 2012




During my recent Prairie State Park photo trip, I was greeted in the early morning hours with glistening dewdrops on the prairie grasses. In this first image, I was able to capture the dewdrop with a glistening starburst, always an interesting opportunity:   In this second image, not only did I capture a starburst, but […]

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Hiking to Crater Lake

By Jim | Published July 31, 2012




A couple of days after arriving at Maroon Bells, my good friend Adam Jack (aka @wildobs, for all you Twitter followers) joined me for a couple of days. We had a blast, hiking around Maroon Bells Lake and hiking through some of the area meadows/woodlands, as we searched out interesting wildlife. But our highlight was […]

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