Category: #outdoor photography

• A summer of learning: Butterfly upperwings and underwings

  My first “wow” butterfly moment in the summer of 2015, described in Butterflies Part I, was really about butterflies and moths, and their antennae. The second moment of amazement is this realization: One butterfly, and in fact each individual wing of that one butterfly, can be very different when seen from above or below. Their…

  jwilce

  September 6, 2015

  #butterflies, #colors, #insects, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photonarratives, #wings

  #insects, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #wildlife photography

• A summer of learning: How to tell butterflies from moths

  It has been a summer of wonder and amazement, based on apparently chance encounters of this insect or that. But of course what we see— if we are watching—reflects what is here for now, in this season (or sub-sub-season). And so, it seems that one week, quite suddenly, our Cheshire neighborhood (Flagstaff, AZ) was home…

  jwilce

  September 5, 2015

  #insects, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photonarratives, #wildlife photography

  antennae, butterflies, insect diversity, Lepidoptera, moths

• A Humming-good story

  On Tuesday (8/18/15) my early morning walking feet took me to a strip of land covered with wildflowers like scarlet bugler penstemon and gilia. I have been visiting the strip for a week now because it’s a common place to find hummingbirds. And of course the hummers visit the strip because of the wildflowers. At…

  jwilce

  August 21, 2015

  #bird photography, #hummingbirds, #mating rituals, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #wildlife photography