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Look, But Don’t Touch!
A couple of days ago, I had another, early morning kayak outing at a local Missouri Conservation Area. As I unloaded the kayak and prepared to enter the water, I had to stop for a moment and capture the beautiful sky developing around me as sunrise neared. Now I didn’t come prepared, so had to […]
Posted in Nature Photography, Photography from a kayak, Wildflowers
Tags: Amarugia CA, Blog, Cass County, kayaking, Missouri, nature, nature photography, summer, Touch-me-not, wildflower
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Enter the Dragon’s Lair, Part 3
In Part 3 of this mini-series, I’m featuring a Banded Pennant dragonfly that was photographed last week at a local Missouri Conservation Area: Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 7D Mark 2 body Canon EF 100-400mm, f/4.5 to f/5.6 IS lens Handheld, with IS “On” ISO 500 Aperture f/8 Shutter 1/200 sec. to 1/250 sec.
Posted in Insect Photography, Nature Photography
Tags: Amarugia CA, dragonfly, insect, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, prairie, spring
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Enter the Dragon’s Lair, Part 2
In part 2 of this mini-series, I’m featuring some of the many Eastern Amberwings dragonflies that I found at a local Missouri Conservation Area last week. These are some of my favorite dragonflies. They are such a beautiful color, although sometimes a bit more difficult to find due to the transparent amber coloration of the […]
Posted in Insect Photography, Nature Photography
Tags: Amarugia CA, behavior, Blog, Cass County, dragonfly, insect, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, prairie, spring
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Keeping My Fingers Crossed!
A few days ago, I stopped by a local, Missouri Department of Conservation area. I was pleasantly surprised to find a couple of locations that had been recently plowed. In the past, these areas had been used to grow sunflowers in the summer, but had not been planted for 3 years. So, I’m keeping my […]
A Lightweight on a Heavyweight
Came upon this image while looking for blog material this morning. While photographing the dragonflies that I featured over the past few posts, I also came upon this Halloween Penant that was resting atop an Ironweed wildflower: I always enjoy finding/photographing dragonflies and butterflies in the meadow, especially when they are on/around colorful wildflowers. Photographic […]
Posted in Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: Amarugia CA, Blog, Cass County, cute, dragonfly, insect, meadow, Missouri, nature, nature photography, prairie, summer, wildflower
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Halloween Penant Dragonflies
Today’s post contains some images I captured in 2012 and never published. Wandering one of the local Missouri Conservation Areas, a lot of Halloween Penant dragonflies were resting on various prairie grasses. The penant dragonflies are in the same family as the skimmer dragonflies. Their name “penant” comes from their typical posture of perching at, […]