An old (film) dog's odyssey to learn new (digital) tricks


Archive for the ‘Insects’


Knee deep in lunchtime

I pulled up this summer shot to remind me of warmer times, if only as a break between bouts of snow-shoveling…

Territoriality

A vignette seen at the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, Colorado…

The webs we weave

I’ve never seen a web with a pattern like this before, so I just had to grab a shot:

Taken in Cortez, Colorado — with a little help from a mister…

Lunch time

This past weekend, our family and some friends drove up to Steamboat Springs for a quick little get-away in the mountains. One of our little side trips was to Fish Creek Falls — I’ll upload pictures of them in the future, but for today thought I’d share this image of a “local” that we ran [...]

Tiny visitor

Just a quick slice of life shot I took on our recent “spring break” trip to the L.A. area…

Climber

A Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charitonius) butterfly…

What’s the buzz?

Another shot from the Butterfly Pavilion — this time of some honeybees in an indoor display case…

Just resting a bit…

Now that I’m armed with an Olympus ring light, I took “the pup” to the local butterfly place so she could wander around, and I could test my gear out on the locals. Here’s one of the better results (50mm macro lens and 2x teleconverter)…

Bee fly

It’s not built for looks, obviously…

Just hanging out

Earlier this year, I spotted this little guy on our trip to Seattle…