Articles tagged with: summer
A memory of summer, a butterfly accidentally introduced to North America,
the Cabbage White, before the dust was brushed from its wings.
The dark spots mark it a female.
Summer’s here and fireflies are flickering in the fading twilight, lighting up the evenings. I’ve got some spectacular lightning bug images from 2008 and now this year, but I’m saving most of them for a book I have in development.
The firefly below is a male, caught in the instant before he launched himself into the air to show off his lighting skills in search of a mate.
Any other firefly sightings out there? Are their more fireflies this year than in the past, or less?
A pair of songbirds leap and tumble in the late afternoon sunlight, chasing each other and showing off to a hidden observer.
A honeybee catches the last rays of a late summer sun.
Lounging in the late summer warmth, a winter ant concentrates on its grooming rituals, contemplating the microwilderness.
Hear the fading cry of an intense sparrow, battling an invisible late summer wind.
An industrious ant from late summer.
Detroit pop band PAS/CAL released their debut album, I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura last week. Here’s one of my photograph’s of Casimer Pascal from the summer of 2003.
A sparrow twists in the humid summer air. The feathers along the humerus bone of her wing have been lost or worn away, evidence of a hard life.
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I’ve received my copies of the latest Whisper in the Woods Nature Journal featuring my work, and it looks great. In addition to the front and back cover, there is a portfolio of 17 of my wildlife images, including the diaphanous snail below.
I’ve been getting lots of great feedback, and have been invited to exhibit and give a presentation in northern Michigan this summer. Contact me to get a signed copy of the issue, or subscribe at the Whisper in the Woods website.
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See my illustration for Federico Garcia Lorca’s great poem, “The Encounters of an Adventurous Snail”.
From a hot, lazy afternoon on the Huron River last summer, a damselfly (an Ebony Jewelwing) fans its wings as it suns itself on a fallen branch. I’ll post another image soon of two damselflies performing a mating dance in midair.
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Can an ant see the stars?
