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Category Archives: macro photography
04.28.2017 Return of the Red Wake Robin
This time while lying on the ground with the Venus Optics Laowa 15mm macro. AKA Red Trillium-Trillium erectum, this one, and a few others, lived up to the species name by standing erect. Most often they droop as you see … Continue reading
Posted in Closeup Photography, Flora, Intimate Landscape, macro photography, Nature Photography, Western Massachusetts, wildflower portrait, Wildflowers
Tagged flora, intimate landscape, native plant, native wildflower, New England, Red Trillium, Red Wake Robin, Trillium erectum, western massachusetts, Wildflowers
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04.01.2017 Scaly Chanterelle and an Orange Chanteuse.
Lots of good April Fool’s stuff going around, but that’s not in my wheelhouse, as they say, so I’ll just post something more summery on this snowy, slushy April 1st. Turbinellus kauffmanii fka Gomphus kauffmanii fka Cantharellus kauffmanii-Kauffman’s Scaly Chantarelle … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Behavior, Closeup Photography, ecology, Fungi, macro photography, Mushrooms, Nature Photography, Trustees of Reservations, Western Massachusetts
Tagged amphibian, Cantharellus kauffmanii, chantarelle, Chesterfield Gorge, eastern newt, eastern red-spotted newt, fungus, Gomphus kauffmanii, mushroom, natural history image, Notophthalmus viridescens, red eft, The Trustees of Reservations, Turbinellus kauffmanii
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01.20.2017 Ice is nice abstract 2
Not much to add to yesterdays commentary. I hope you enjoy this additional image from this past weekend. Happy Friday.
Posted in Abstract, Closeup Photography, Ice, macro photography, Nature Photography, Patterns in Nature
Tagged abstract, abstract ice, blue ice, bubble abstract, bubbles in ice, Dean Brook, frozen bubbles, ice, ice patterns, landscape, Massachusetts, New England, Shutesbury, western massachusetts
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01.19.2017 Ice is nice abstract 1
It really hasn’t been all that cold this winter except for one spell when we hit single digits. Last weekend saw the teens a few times after a span of some days with a good 40° and lots of melting so … Continue reading
11.14.2016 Monochrome Monday
I may have posted this before, but the subject of flowers in black and white came up on another photographer’s blog the other day and reminded me of a couple of images I liked in monochrome- this being one of … Continue reading
09.09.2016-Floral Friday Fern-leaved False Foxglove
How’s that for alliteration? The hyphen saved me. 🙂 I photograph these annually in the Quabbin Park. The first time I found them I climbed some rocks to get at the plant which wasn’t easy and even a bit risky. … Continue reading
Posted in Closeup Photography, Flora, Intimate Landscape, macro photography, Nature Photography, Quabbin, Western Massachusetts, wildflower portrait, Wildflowers
Tagged Aureolaria pedicularia, Fern-leaved False Foxglove, flora, intimate landscape, Massachusetts, native plant, native wildflower, New England, Quabbin, western massachusetts, Wildflowers
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07.21.2016 Brilliant Beetle
One of my favorite insects to photograph is the Dogbane Leaf Beetle (Chrysochus auratus). They are quite accommodating in the morning and allow for close approach and hardly move…just the occasional twitch of the antennae. They are found on milkweed … Continue reading
Posted in Amherst, Closeup Photography, Insect Behavior, Insects, macro photography, Nature Photography, Western Massachusetts
Tagged Amherst, Apocynum cannabinum), beetle, Chrysochus auratus, coleoptera, dogbane, dogbane beetle, insects, Massachusetts, New England, Polyphaga, western massachusetts
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