Zinnia Bud
Doodle
Dragonfly
Monarch Butterfly
Ladybug
Damselfly
Tiny Toad
Sometimes in spring the ground is covered with these little toads, scarcely larger than a dime.
Peace Lily
Stink Bug
The all too ubiquitous Brown Marmorated Stink Bug...
Wild Columbine
Piece of Wood
Blue Dasher
Goats Beard Seed Head
From the archives.
Dragonfly
Just Visiting
A gnat in an abandoned hornet nest.
Bloodroot
Greenhouse Mum
Karner Blue
A once common, now endangered butterfly. From the archives.
Blue Dasher
Continuing with macro photos - a blue dasher dragonfly.
Ant Milking Aphids
A previously unprocessed image from 2016.
Ribbon Snake
From the archives.
Karner Blue
Prairie Trillium
Skipper
A small butterfly, resting on a blade of grass. From the archives.
Cicada
Coneflower Bud
A gray headed conflower bud.
Eastern Tailed Blue
Calico Pennant
A male calico pennant. I shot with the A*200 f4 macro wide open to minimize depth of field and create a somewhat blurred background, but focus stacked 8 exposures of the dragonfly itself, to keep it sharp.
Sunflower
This little sunflower was at most a couple inches in diameter - it grew in a small pot full of other flowers. A studio close-up from the archives.