So cute – can you see him smiling? Featured in Photography 101
Green Dragon on a yellow umbrella.
Julia Heliconian butterfly, Dryas Iulia, / macro closeup. / Santa Barbara, CA Nikon D70 / Nikkor 50/2.8 Macro / Sb800 flash Top ten: Macro Photography Challenge Featured: Unlinited Quality Group, September 2009 / Featured: Accentuate The Eyes group, February 2009 / Featured: Photography 101 Group, February 2009 / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-- 2009 BUTTERFLIES CALENDAR / / / / / / Or a T-Shirt to go along with /
‘Royal Monarch’ has a special poignancy for me as hidden in the spectacularly obvious, ...there are indications of life’s hardships and mortality… the butterfly itself has a damaged wing and the sunflower a damaged petal… Things are not always are as they seem at face value, behind the smiling face of our friends, family and colleagues / there lie scattered amongst the shards of happiness little splinters of hardships and heart-aches… Taken just outside Mogale city (Krugersdorp) in Gauteng, RSA (Taken while test driving a Canon EOS 350D – Still with the Sigma 300mm lens on macro setting.) Regards, Mike
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...in the heart of a rose… you never know what you may find :)
Monarch Butterfly about to land on the canvas / Oil on Board – no airbrushing 10 X 8 inches / 25.5 X 20 cm Original : / Sold / contact my Agents at Gallery 112 / ....................................................................................
“Radiance” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © Soft and delicate, a monarch butterfly / basks in the morning sunlight. “Learning how to be still, to really be still / and let life happen – / that stillness becomes a radiance.” / ~ Morgan Freeman Competition: Winner of the Queensland groups – Flutterbies of Qld Radiance was featured in the: Prize Challenges Group
Ladybirds breeding site, hiding away in a fence post join. Mt Burr South Australia.
One lonely ladybird, (ladybug), found in our garden this week. Hiding back in the shadows and slowly working towards the light. For those of you who have visited my site before and seen the many thousands of these beautiful creatures that I have photographed before at my “secret location” will be dismayed to find out they are all dead. Seems Council staff couldn’t prevent them from entering a nearby radio repeater station and rather than build a barrier sprayed the lot!!!! I have voiced my complaint and hope one day they will be able to breed and again mass in their thousands. In the meantime we can only hope lone ones like this survive and remain alive in our gardens. Canon 400D Sigma macro 100 – 300, worked on in Photoshop CS3.
Another image from my Ladybird meeting place near Mt Burr, Limestone Coast, South Australia. Many of you who have visited before would have seen a range of images from this secret little place where these ladybirds congregated in their thousands. Recently I reported they had all been killed by poison spray laid by Local Government. I have been back and they are just starting to regenerate now with only small bunches in their tens surviving but they seem to be making a slow comeback. This image, shot with a Canon 400D – sigma 100 – 300 macro, is an old image I have been wanting to post for some time. Hopefully we will see them back in their glory like this in years to come.
Here is another photo of my Black Widow ! And I know she is really creepy !! But I love how well her photos came out ! This one had such a beautiful color to the back ground that it made the web look like it had electricity going through it !! And I did not do anything to the back ground ,but darken it some . The colors and light where already there!! Let me know what ya’ll think on this ? This was taken at my home in Odessa, Texas with a Panasonic FZ50 FEATURES and CHALLENGE WINS and TOP 10 PLACES! 1.This one was Featured in the > Live, Love, Dream Group / 2.This was Featured in the >>> Victorian Viewfinders Group! / 3.This was Featured in the >>>Point and Shooters Group! / 4. 1st Place Win in > Spiders…Any And All Types! Challenge with >You’re Accepted Group! / 5.This was Featured in the > Arachnids Group! / 6.This placed in the Top 10 in the … Random Photography Group….in the Challenge …WILD! / 7. This Placed in the Top 10 in the…. / Electric Orange Slide ( Black Window Series ) / Black Widow / I’m Watching You ( Black Widow Series ) / Green Haze ( Black Widow Series ) / A Widow ( Black Widow Series ) /
Yes their back! The ladybirds from Mount Burr made an emergence yesterday with thousands massing in a number of spots within the forest. This group were huddled together in their hundreds on a power pole just above ground level. As with all things in life there is always one or two who stand out in a crowd. Canon 400D 18-55 taken at night with aid of a speedlight. Processed in Photo shop CS3.
Yesterday I reported the swarming of thousands of these beautiful creatures in the Mount Burr Forest in the South East of the State. This lot were clustered around the nut on a bolt holding the side plate onto a powerpole. Interestingly I went back today and nearly all of the tens of thousands had disappeared back to wherever they came from. What a magical twenty four hours this was. Thanks to Biggzie (see his site for some great images) I can now tell you that they are the: Common Spotted Ladybird / Harmonia conformis Canon 400D 18 – 55 lens with speedlight.
Another trip out to the swarming of ladybirds that I have been reporting on at Mount Burr South Australia. This time we took them flowers!!!!!! The thousands I have posted on recently have dwindled to small groups of twenty to thirty and are slowly moving on. They climbed aboard our flowers which gave us opportunities to take some images a little different to those uploaded over the last few days. I promise the ladybirds shots will stop soon but they are just such brilliant works of nature that I can’t help keep going back whilst they are there. Canon 400D 18 – 55 lens with two stage extension tubes and speedlight.
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The ladybirds have returned in significant numbers at Mt Burr again. This is a small cluster on dead and dried ferns. (if you look closely you will see them underneath as well) Always a pleasure to watch these little beauties crawling around in their thousands. Canon 400D, 18 – 55 with two stage macro extension tubes and speedlight. I am often asked, “just how thick are these?” Well the photo below is just an example of how thick they settle when they arrive!!!!
Ladybirds again from the Mt Burr area. More flowers taken out to them recently and they blend so well with the colours. Shot taken within the Mt Burr Forest, South East South Australia. Canon 400D 18-55 lens with three stage extension tubes.
I used the Canon XSi DSLR with a 300 mm lens. I used a PL-CIR filter. I took this picture at historic Rock Ledge Ranch in Colorado Springs, Co.
Featured in Dimensions August 20, 2009. Best on Full Size Having some fun with the macro/micro lens in my garden (Montgomery County, Maryland) the other day, August 3, 2009, I found this darling little critter (thought she was a grasshopper but have been told by wiser heads than mine that she’s a Katy-Did) enjoying brunch. Loved the way she munched away on the flower thingie like a cob of hot buttered corn!!!! Handheld image taken with the Nikon D300 and the 60mm Nikon macro/micro lens. Shutter 1/640, aperture f/13, exp -.33, iso 200. Minor cropping and levels work in Photoshop.
Featured in Friends of Bangor and North Down Camera Club, Northern Ireland August 23, 2009. Best Viewed Full Size This little image is only one of nearly 400 (yes, I discovered the rapid fire thingie on the new camera over the weekend) I took of these most amazing creatures. It means the world to me that I was able to play with them as I’ve never seen a Monarch in our garden in Maryland. The “lawn” to the cabin next to ours on Blue Knob Mountain in Claysburg Pennsylvania has been left uncut all summer … and the most incredible wild vegetation has grown up. One is this pretty purple flowered stalk … which happen to be very much beloved by the Monarch Butterflies. Image taken with the Nikon D300 and the 70-300mm vr Nikon lens at shutter speed 1/160, aperture f/10.0, exp 0.00, iso 800. Focal length 220mm.
I had a vision to turn my colorful bug images into sepia toned black and white images with a touch of color. But didn’t know how, until today….. So a big thank you to two wonderful people here at Red bubble, Diane Schuster for all her help in teaching me and also to Prasad for his very helpful tutorial… / Love to know what you all think of my new work…..photograph taken in Tasmania, Australia, using a 100mm Canon macro lens and Canon DSLR. My New 2010 Calender *FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING GROUPS: / A Photographer’s Craft / Depth Of Field / Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence! *
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