Articles tagged with: sun

31 Aug 2010 | 7 Comments | Insects etc. »

Fly this fast and the world never looks the same,
the tipsy universe whips by in a wing’s beat.

 
Honey Bees return to the hive

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

29 Aug 2010 | 3 Comments | Insects etc. »

A spontaneous leap into a new space age,
escaping an exhausted flower, ignoring old sign-posts.

 
A bee leaps into a new space age

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

10 Aug 2010 | 7 Comments | Insects etc. »

A sharp honey bee on her way to the wild side of the garden,
too chic for her own good.

 
Honeybee

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

1 Aug 2010 | 2 Comments | Insects etc. »

Returning home with ill-gotten gains,
slicing through the garden,
skyscraper stems bend and sway,
a scale model speeds through space.

 
A bee slices through the garden

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

13 Jul 2010 | 2 Comments | Birds »

A contrast of light and shadow,
an acrobatic space unfolding where
the real cavorts with the imaginary.


Two songbirds are a contrast of light and shadow

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Sparrow | Passer domesticus

One of my honey bee images was published in the latest issue of Greenpeace Magazin
in Germany.
 

It’s a nicely designed magazine, with some excellent content.
 
Wild Light in German Greenpeace Magazin
Wild Light in German Greenpeace Magazin

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

22 Jun 2010 | 5 Comments | Insects etc. »

The tough, public face of the 4th annual
National Pollinator Week
,
a hunter-gatherer full of pollen to the point
of rebellion, the fruits of her labor
taken to bizarrely stylish extremes.

 
Honey bee full of pollen to the point of rebellion

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

3 Jun 2010 | 4 Comments | Insects etc. »

A miraculous pollen-seeker,
energy enough to exhaust
the average hunter-gatherer,
mixes bravura style and performance
in the greatest American road trip.

 
Miraculous-pollen seeker, Honey bee on flower

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Honey bee | Apis mellifera

11 May 2010 | No Comment | Insects etc. »

A battleship costumed in ocher and black stripes,
Bombus impatiens, animating the everyday
with aster-blasting distraction.

 
Battleship bumblebee

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Bumblebee | Bombus impatiens

18 Apr 2010 | 3 Comments | Birds »

Against the dying sun, an experiment in ecstatic abandon,
two starlings tease, challenge and reflect each other,
shadows trailing the twilight comet.

 
Two starlings challenge the dying sun

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Starling | Sturnus vulgaris

28 Mar 2010 | 3 Comments | Birds »

Warm and cold challenge each other,
recoil from each other,
golds as strident as a trumpet’s cry.
 

The grackles are back, the blaze of the setting sun
trailing in their wake.

 
Grackle flying at sunset