Dragonfiles of varying size (the one pictured above is a Blue Dasher) were swarming all over Huntley Meadows park this morning. There are over 5,000 types of dragonflies around the world, I saw about 20 or so different types today. They have large compound eyes and four wings that move independently, allowing them to hover...
Last week a lizard, this week an Eastern Box Turtle appeared at my house. This fellow was cutting through my yard when it encountered the fence line. After a couple of attempts to fit through the space between the fence boards, it decided a better course of action was to bury itself under a pile...
The American Five-lined Skink (AKA blue-tailed skink) is one of the most common lizards in the eastern U.S., but sightings in my neighborhood are pretty rare, so I was surprised to open my front door today and see this guy (gal?) standing outside my door. I went back in and grabbed my camera and when...
This morning, Huntley Meadows park had a number of youngsters around including female Blue-winged Teals and the juvenile Green-backed Heron above. I watched this heron for over an hour as it successfully found meals in the wetlands on a pretty frequent basis. Also in the park were numerous varieties of butterflies and dragonflies such as...
It hit 95 degrees today and I was in Mason Neck State Park looking for subjects to photograph. Not much was stirring so I decided to head into the woods (and out of the sun) to practice some techniques using the available features of my camera. One of the features allows for multiple exposures to...
I’ve been spending the last couple of weeks photographing in my backyard. It certainly saves on gas. My backyard is no national park, in fact my house sits on less than a tenth of an acre. It’s a tiny piece of land, but you hang a couple of bird feeders and plant a few flowers…....
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