We have The Manatee over as a guest this week and have thus been busy doing things other than chasing critters, but I have to give him credit for finding this one, immediately upon my commenting that I needed to try and find something. Our first view comes from inside, looking out, early in the morning:
For reasons unknown, one window of Stately Walkabout Manor has been overtaken
Somehow, these months keep ending, which someone should be looking into – I’m sure this isn’t a good thing. But while it’s happening, we’ll at least keep noting this occurrence (until we don’t, anyway) with the month-end abstract. The first was not actually intended to be an abstract as such, but it worked out quite well as one, plus it looks cool. Or at least
Actually, I was rather committed to not even having an Estate Find this week, both from not finding anything new and from having far too many other things taking up my time, but we’re pulling this one out in the last minute, kinda – it was shot in the early evening as we were rearranging things in the yard.
Okay, sure, it’s simply a Copes grey treefrog (Dryophytes
Did the rounds tonight, counting how many juvenile Carolina anoles (Anolis carolinensis) I could find, and actually reached fifty this time, in fact, fifty-one. That one is shown below, doing its best to avoid being counted:
While certainly not an overriding, driving desire, I felt compelled not only to break the previous record, but to reach the nice round number of fifty –
After yesterday’s post that ended with damaging my brand new softbox, I repaired it, added some clips to keep the flip-up top from flipping up, at least when I didn’t want it to, and glued some coarse grit sandpaper to the top of the hotshoe to prevent slippage (it’s an accessory shoe that takes the PC cord, so I’m not doing this to the 7D body.) Then I went out to do some
The pursuit of the ideal softbox for flash macro photography has been going on for a while now, with many iterations, and now we have another. The last version took advantage of being able to hash out and 3D-print a design more optimized for the purpose, because I now could, but I realized after a
Gotta bunch this time around, and it’s going to be herp-heavy, which means we’re classing together species that barely have any relation to one another scientifically, but they seem kind of the same this means frogs, lizards, and turtles. We’ll try to space them out a bit.
This one should have been in the last post, but I forgot about it until I’d already posted and didn’t
Just a couple of pics for the time being – I’m in the middle of sorting and some sorting finds will be along when I finish, so right now, we have a couple of recent discoveries for giggles.
First off, last night the five bebby anoles that could be found on the Japanese maple nearest the door to Walkabout Studios could be captured in a single frame:
Can you find them all?
While I was out last night photographing the Estate Find, I grabbed two other images of opportunity and I’ll throw them up now.
I’ve mentioned the explosion of golden silk orbweavers (Trichonephila clavipes) on the property, but they’re getting big now, and I needed an illustration
These long empty stretches keep happening, and probably will, since there are plenty of other things going on here that need my attention, so the posts get neglected. Plus, those same things keep me from finding new images or topics. So, we’ll have just a couple of sideline pics gathered here and there just to prove I’m not dead. But also consider, I could be resorting to AI to generate
