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Knee deep in lunchtime

Argos — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:37:36 +0000

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

Territoriality

Argos — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:19:19 +0000

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

The webs we weave

Argos — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:15:12 +0000

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

Argos — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:31:42 +0000

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

Argos — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:02:51 +0000

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

Climber

Argos — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:47:31 +0000

A Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charitonius) butterfly...

What’s the buzz?

Argos — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:53:03 +0000

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

Just resting a bit…

Argos — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:52:25 +0000

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

Argos — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:25:15 +0000

It's not built for looks, obviously...

Just hanging out

Argos — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:34:01 +0000

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

Allograpta obliqua

Argos — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:46:29 +0000

I don’t recall what kind of flower my little subject is on, but I really like this macro shot: It’s a handy thing, Flickr. Based on this little guy’s coloring I thought he must be some sort of wasp — but I’ve been told it’s a hover fly (a.k.a., a flower fly). I took [...]