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A Touch of Egypt in the Midwest
Today’s post features some images I captured over the weekend of a White-lined Sphinx Moth, in the church butterfly garden. While weeding and deadheading the flowers, this rather large guy flew in and worked on the cascading butterfly bush for some time, allowing me to grab the camera out of the car and catch a […]
An Oxymoron?
Today’s post features a wildflower I captured recently while hiking around Burnt Mill Cave Conservation Area, located in the Missouri Ozarks: Photographic Equipment Used: Canon 5D Mark 3 camera body Canon 180mm, f/3.5 macro lens Bogen 3021 tripod, with ballhead ISO 400 Aperture f/3.5 Shutter 1/6,000 sec. This image is a focus-stacked image of 7 […]
Posted in Focus Stacking, Uncategorized, Wildflowers
Tags: macro photography, Missouri, wildflower
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A Little Pfun with Pflox
Today’s post features a couple of focus-stacked images I captured last Friday on a photo outing at Burnt Mill Cave Conservation Area (in the Missouri Ozarks, not far from where I live). Woodland Phlox wildflowers are really rampant right now … been finding a lot of them on my woodland hikes. During last week’s outing, […]
Posted in Focus Stacking, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Wildflowers
Tags: macro photography, wildflower
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No Waste Here!
Today’s post features a fun image I captured a few years ago on a dew-covered Dorsett Hill Prairie (west-central Missouri). The Thread-waisted Wasp is an interesting find. With it’s uniquely long and very slim “waist”, this is a larger and nonsocial wasp. The Thread-waisted Wasp is an ambush attacker, immobilizing insect prey with a swift […]
Posted in Insect Photography, Macro Photography
Tags: insect, macro photography, prairie
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Swallowtails in the Garden
Today’s post features a few of the many Swallowtail butterflies that have been busy in the Monarch butterfly garden I designed this spring at the Lake of the Ozarks: Although this butterfly garden is new, and small, it has been very successful this first year. With more plantings planned for fall and again next spring, […]
Keeping the Species Alive
As you may know, Monarch butterfly numbers have been declining the past few years. In the new butterfly garden that I put in at the Lake of the Ozarks this spring is flourishing with Monarchs. Here are a few of my favorite images captured recently in this garden. Monarchs busy laying eggs: Monarch butterfly eggs […]