We’ve had a couple of bluebird nest boxes in the yard for the past two years, attracting occupants each spring, and of course this means I’m attempting to get some decent images. What I’m most after are the newly emerged fledglings, the young whippersnappers just leaving the nest, but while waiting I try for [...]
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May 25th, 2013 | Tags: camera trap, Eastern Bluebird, fledgling, nest box, Sialia sialis | Category: Frustrations, Nature, Photography |
 Leave a commentEdit: I’d already used “part eight” on a previous post and missed it, so this has been renamed. I have a small collection of school presentations that I’ve put together, primarily about arthropods – life cycles, feeding habits, camouflage, and so on. For one of them, I have pretty much everything about lady beetles [...] April 12th, 2013 | Tags: Coccinellidae, elytra, jet-powered insects, lady beetles, wings | Category: Frustrations, Nature, Photography, Rants |
Leave a commentOkay, so, I had this idea a couple of weeks ago, to feature an image from the summer solstice on the day of the winter solstice – kind of a callback to nicer weather, and a reflection of that little archive list on the sidebar, right? Yeah, so, first, I had to stick to [...] There’s not going to be anything insightful hidden within this post, I’m just writing it out because I’m hoping it will be cathartic. First things first. I’m actually pretty good about being able to find some place on a map that I’ve been to years before, based largely on the general landscape and my [...] Yes, being a northern hemispheran, autumn is encroaching here, which means the availability of subjects is waning rapidly and I’m going to be grumpy and irritable for a few months (not helped at all by sinuses that react badly to the conditions.) Yet, there are still some last holdouts defying the season, like an [...] So yeah, I’m well outside of the range of the annular eclipse, still taking place as I type this I believe, and my friend in Kansas thought he was too. But at least he was watching carefully at sunset when he got the right conditions. No filters needed when it’s this low on [...] For those of you who have been hanging on the edge of your seat, checking thrice daily to see if I’ve offered an update, I apologize for keeping you in suspense. Actually, no I don’t – suspense is good for you, and anxiety strengthens the heart. Well known fact. Anyway, I mentioned trying to [...] In yesterday’s ‘Too cool’ installment, I lamented not being able to illustrate the topic with my own images, and suspected I’d have no opportunity to do so. This was an abject ploy to make you feel sorry for me. However, I soon became wracked with guilt over such blatant manipulations. Not to mention that, [...] I just can’t seem to get my timing down. I see countless lectures and events that look like they should be interesting, and they’re usually too far away for me to attend. I’ve completely written off things like The Amaz!ng Meeting, not just because of distance but because they chose the most expensive place [...] I actually got out last night for the Leonids meteor shower, braving the cold like a dedicated nature photographer… well, okay, to a small extent, anyway. I was unable to travel very far, so it meant trying to find a darker sky spot in an area not particularly known for it. The cities aren’t [...] |
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