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Just thought you should know that I’m offering two new seminars in March 2012, in partnership with North Carolina Botanical Gardens in Chapel Hill, NC. Since I know you’ve been dying to meet me in person, this is the best opportunity to do so since my handlers will be absent… The first is Saturday [...] January 8th, 2012 | Tags: garden photography, North Carolina Botanical Garden, seminars | Category: Nature, Photography |
 Leave a commentI’m quick to tell anyone who wants to listen that the key to decent photography is composition. Technical proficiency certainly helps, but no one ever looks at a photo and says, “Wow, what a great use of exposure!” It’s what is in the photo that counts, and this can actually excuse some technical faults. [...] March 14th, 2011 | Tags: animal habits, Anolis carolinensis, bird calls, Common Clearwing, Goldenrod Crab Spider, green anole, Hemaris thysbe, Hummingbird Moth, Misumena vatia, North Carolina Botanical Garden, observation | Category: Composition, Nature, Photography |
 2 commentsDid I excite the wrong kind of people with that title? Ah, well, too bad. Courtesy yet again of Jerry Coyne at Why Evolution Is True comes this live hummingbird webcam, and she has zeh babbies right now! That makes a nice subject for me to kick off National Wildlife Week. You can get [...] March 13th, 2011 | Tags: Allen's Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris, livecam, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Selasphorus sasin, webcam | Category: Nature, Photography, Too Cool |
One commentYesterday I met a student at the local botanical garden and arrived early, so I did a quick tour. The NC Coastal section had been burned off recently, part of the biological maintenance which helps the new plants grow, but it meant there wasn’t much to see. However, a mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) flew [...] February 27th, 2011 | Tags: Buteo jamaicensis, Buteo lineatus, Mourning Dove, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Red-shouldered Hawk, red-tailed hawk, Zenaida macroura | Category: Nature, Photography, Science & Evolution |
Leave a commentNow that the season for such things is effectively over, I can admit to myself that I didn’t get what I was after this year, and go with what I have so far. The Sphingidae is one of the more interesting families of moth. While not as big or impressive as Luna moths, [...] November 9th, 2010 | Tags: aposematic coloration, Batesian mimicry, Bumblebee Moth, Common Clearwing, convergent evolution, Hemaris diffinis, Hemaris thysbe, Hummingbird Moth, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Snowberry Clearwing | Category: Frustrations, Nature, Photography, Science & Evolution |
Leave a commentYesterday was definitely not the day to really be tackling this, but I spent a little time down at the North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill, and still managed to get a couple of useful images while there. The sun was hiding behind either heavy haze or clouds while the temperature hovered in [...] August 5th, 2010 | Tags: Archilochus colubris, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Category: Nature, Photography |
Leave a commentWelcome to the first of a new topic, one I’ve been meaning to get to for a while. So far, I have two others in the queue which will show up before too long, so keep watching. This is my way of illustrating one of the reasons I got into nature photography in the [...] September 26th, 2009 | Tags: camouflage, Chrysopidae, green lacewing, larva, macro photography, North Carolina Botanical Garden | Category: Nature, Photography, Too Cool |
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