Category Archives: Amherst

07.27.2022 Wordless Wednesday-Dew Drop Roller Coaster

Posted on July 27, 2022 by Steve Gingold
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07.25.2022 Macro Monday-Crossed Blades in Brickyard

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Steve Gingold

While in Brickyard yesterday, my main goal was intimate scenes of grass and dew drops.  There was a lot to work with and this is the first of a series. 5D Mark IV with 180 macro and 2.0 teleconverter at … Continue reading →

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07.24.2022 Today I learned a new behavior and the word for it.

Posted on July 24, 2022 by Steve Gingold

While photographing in the yard Friday afternoon, I noticed a Goldenrod Crab spider with it’s bumblebee prey and made several photographs. (Note, this is not Nature at its prettiest but all part of the grand scheme of things.) Through the … Continue reading →

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07.24.2022. Silent Sunday- Brickyard 5:30 a.m.

Posted on July 24, 2022 by Steve Gingold
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07.23.2022 I’m looking backward to cooler days

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Steve Gingold

The restaurant images are all at the framer’s shop.  I’m now continuing to pull together images for a show this Autumn.  The emphasis will be on Mount Pollux but with a few other Amherst locales in the mix.

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07.22.2022 Funny, I didn’t smell anything

Posted on July 22, 2022 by Steve Gingold

Green Burgundy Stink Bug-Banasa dimidiata Another new to me species in the yard.  This, I think, is the fifth or sixth stink bug species  we’ve had visit us.  This one seems to want some blueberries.  They like most trees and shrubs … Continue reading →

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07.20.2022 Wordless Wednesday…another candidate

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Steve Gingold

The Holyoke Mountain Range wearing the Belt of Venus at Dawn

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07.18.2022 Sweet Bee

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Steve Gingold

I’ve admired the metallic sweat bees a few of you have posed recently.  I wish that was what I am sharing today, but alas the only sweat bees in the yard recently have been these Furrow Bees. Sweat Bee-Furrow Bee-Halictus … Continue reading →

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07.17.2022 Silent Sunday-Mount Pollux Maple at Dawn

Posted on July 17, 2022 by Steve Gingold
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07.16.2022 Small Saturday

Posted on July 16, 2022 by Steve Gingold

Sorry.  I just can’t come up with something more clever. I saw one of these caterpillars on a daisy fleabane a few weeks ago but it was rolled tight atop the flower and didn’t make for a good image.  But … Continue reading →

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