A flock of garden visitors

It's not exactly National Geographic, but my back yard has been a cornucopia of photographic targets the past couple of days. One good thing about photographing birds in the back yard is that the birds tend to be accustomed to humans more and easily sho… more »
Tags: american robin, bird photography, birding, common grackle, downy woodpecker, european starling, indigo bunting, rose-breasted grosbeak, white-crowned sparrow Posted Under Astronomy, Photography, Nature, Wildlife on 05.10.2011

I Made A Butterfly!

Time-lapse video of a Black Swallowtail Butterfly emerging from its chrysalis. more »
Tags: black swallowtail, butterfly emergence, caterpillar, metamorphosis, papilio polyxnes Posted Under Photography, Nature, Wildlife, Time Lapse on 08.1.2010

Metamorphosis Before Your Eyes

Here's a web cam set up to capture the metamorphosis of two Black Swallowtail Butterflies. more »
Tags: black swallowtail, caterpillar, metamorphosis, papilio polyxnes Posted Under Photography, Nature, Wildlife, Time Lapse on 07.21.2010

It was the summer of... '09

Not quite as lyrical, is it? Last year, about this time, I set up a couple cameras pointing at my back yard and garden. My Canon A510 point & shoot digital sitting on a tripod pointing out the door, and a QuickCam web cam sitting outside zip tied… more »
Posted Under Photography, Nature, Wildlife on 05.16.2010

Drama in the Avian World

Action photos of the avian drama unfolding in my back yard. more »
Tags: american cardinal, european starling, photography, wildlife photography Posted Under Pretty Pictures, Photography, Nature, Wildlife on 02.14.2010