Busy Bee

Small Honey Bee leaving an Angel Trumpet bloom with a load of pollen.

Beetle Mania

Photo of a Popillia Japonica, better known as a Japanese Beetle, feeding on a rose blossom

little lemons

Three months from now, we might have some lemons on our two small trees.

deep space traveler

This spaceship? is actually a small imperfection inside a slab of granite rock.  The dots  are flecks of debris reflected into the lens.  Taken with a 50mm normal lens mounted in reverse position on a fully extended bellows.  I am guessing the magnification is around 4X  but thats just a guess.  The spaceship was so small, it was invisible to a naked eye.

inside an Angel Trumpet

seed pods

After the flower blooms drop off the canna plant, these are the unusual pods that remain.

hoverfly

The hoverfly, while looking like a bee or wasp, is a harmless, beneficial insect in most gardens.  A true fly, the camouflage helps protect it from birds and other predators.

beginnings

This is a super macro (the actual image size captured was about the size of a pinhead) of the inside of a granite rock slab.  Lighting was from the rear with a strong flashlight shining through the rock.  I used a Olympus OMD with an old 50mm macro lens reverse mounted on a bellows with full extension.  Lens to subject distance was about one inch.

Firefly

I spent quite a while trying to identify this little beetle.  I was surprised to find out it was a firefly and maybe the first firefly I’ve ever seen in the daytime.

Hydrangea #2

A different variety of hydrangea blooming in my front yard.