Had a small handful of pics to post, then got a few more yesterday morning (actually, right after the tiger beetle) that were going to go up, but I got busy with some other things. Then last night (which is only a couple hours ago as I type this,) I got more that needed to jump in line. So the next few image posts are going to be in reverse chronological order, but so be it.
In the late morning yesterday,
It’s been a while since the Magic Bucket of Variety has caught anything more than beetles, and in fact, it’ll be a while longer, since this is a beetle. But it’s a beetle I haven’t seen before, so it’s getting featured here.
I knew right away this was a tiger beetle, since they have some distinctive traits like the spots on the abdomen and the eyes and
While troubleshooting the 3D printer the other day, I flipped the entire chassis up and discovered that, in a hollow under the main deck, a tiny spider had made its home. This is not particularly surprising, since plenty of species seek out little undisturbed dark spaces like that to make their webs, intent on capturing, I dunno, dust and ghosts it seems – it’s hard to say what kind
… which only means two nights ago now, since these got bumped by a heron.
Did a nighttime patrol, specifically looking for something since The Girlfriend and I saw evidence while we were out on the deck grilling steaks (back when it was daylight.) However, we’re going to build rather than doing them in order, because dramatic writing (well, typing) and all that.
I had the 180mm macro lens
This one really should have been covered earlier, but it’s not like people have signed up for a course or anything, nor did earlier posts rely on it. So let’s look at stability, or steadiness, or bracing, or reducing camera shake.
From working in a photo lab (you know, back in those film days, before cellphones even,) I can tell you the number one cause of poor photos
I scanned this one many moons ago just to illustrate the failure, and never ended up using it, but now it will serve as the lead-in to this week’s Tip Jar. This is, the weakness of a cheap tripod.
Let me explain what you’re seeing here. First off, from way back in the days of shooting print film, so this is a scan from a negative that didn’t age well, probably around
I have a small collection of photos taken last night that I need to put up, and they were bumping four others from a few nights ago, but they all got kicked out of line by what I took this morning. These are the privileged piccies, the ones too good to wait in line. Yes, I’m terribly classist about my photos…
I was just setting up to reshoot an illustrative image for tomorrow’s
It’s always nice to have your own pool, but you have to factor in the fencing around it to keep the neighbors’ prying eyes out, of course. Out on the beck deck today, I found that a watering can featured a new detail.
Now, I know, every time we go to use the grill, I have to remove the cover and then chase three green treefrogs (Dryophytes cinereus) out from
When doing the end of the month tallying for the ol’ Walkabout blogaroosta, I found that I had uploaded 497 photos for the first half of the year. Three more, and I would have had a nice even 500 – I even had three waiting in the blog folder for a post! You can imagine the pain that this caused me.
Which was, not much at all. ‘Round’ numbers are a conceit, little more –
Within two days, I had two similar subjects to work with, with rather disparate cooperativeness, but it gave me the chance to catch up a little on the image count for the month.
The rains came in this past week, too many cloudbursts to count, but it made the amphibians happy, and we all know how important that is. One decided to come in the front door as soon as I opened it, though it likely
