Tag: #insects

• Underexposed?

  or dark, rich, moody? I admit it— I love my “underexposed” images. I succumb to what one of my generous mentors calls “the religion of low light.” Why? The colors are so darned rich! The downside? They are “noisy”! (Noise is to digital images as “grainy” was to film images.) Here are two of my…

  jwilce

  March 21, 2023

  #bees, #bumblebees, #colors, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #flowers, #insects, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #technological improvement, #technology, #wings, animal behavior, Arizona, insect behavior, insect photography, Mirrorless cameras, OM1 camera, outdoor photography

  #Arizona, #insects, #nature, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, Flagstaff

• T-Shirts With Beautiful Designs!

  

  Promoting Other Artists’ Work (and my own) Click on lower case “t-shirts” below to see the wearable art! t-shirts Can’t see my t-shirts? Try this: https://jim-wilce.pixels.com/shop/tshirts

  jwilce

  February 3, 2023

  #bird photography, #butterflies, #digital cameras, #FlagstaffArizona, #flowers, #insects, #moon, #MountElden, #nightsky, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #sunsets, #technological improvement, #technology, #wildlife photography, #wings, Arizona, bird photography, bird photos, clothing, Collegiality, holiday gift ideas, holiday gifts, insect photography, Mirrorless cameras, Mountains, outdoor photography, rural America, Sunrises, Sunsets, t-shirts, wildlife photography

  #birds, #clouds, #flowers, #getolympus, #insects, #olympusphotography, #photography, #sunsets and sunrises

• Free: Three versions of bumblebee at white vetch flowers

  I am loving giving some of my photos away on Pexels.com, with the understanding that those who are inspired to do so will make a contribution to this extremely dedicated photographer, photo editor, videographer, etc. Here are three versions of a photograph of a tricolored (Hunt’s?) bumblebee hovering by white vetch flowers. (Vetches are in…

  jwilce

  January 25, 2023

  #bees, #bumblebees, #colors, #FlagstaffArizona, #insects, #northern Arizona, #OlympusE-M1-Markii camera, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #technological improvement, #technology, #wings, insect behavior, insect photography, Mirrorless cameras, outdoor photography

  #Arizona, #getolympus, #insects, #nature, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, bumblebees, content-aware move tool, Flagstaff, Hymenoptera, pea plants, Photoshop, pollinators, vetch, white flowers, winged insects

• Bee healthy!

  Honeybees, hive killers, and vaccines Without pollinators, we might not have food. With pollinators come food and beauty. Beauty like this — https://jim-wilce.pixels.com/featured/the-blue-knighthood-of-bees-jim-wilce.html or this freebie for y’all At a time when disease is wiping out whole insect colonies, a new vaccine shows promise in fighting the bacteria that have been destroying honeybee colonies. Here…

  jwilce

  January 21, 2023

  #bees, #colors, #FlagstaffArizona, #insects, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photoblog, #photography, #photonarratives, #technological improvement, #technology, #wings, Arizona, insect behavior, insect photography, Mirrorless cameras, outdoor photography

  #insects, #nature, #northern Arizona, #olympusphotography, #photography, bees, echinacea, flowers, honeybees

• Dragonflies mating mid-air

  One of my favorite places in Flagstaff is Frances Short Pond. It is a hotspot for members of the Order Odonata— dragonflies and damselflies like the one below, which is, I believe, a “bluet.” But now the show I promised—a shaky video of two orange dragonflies and their mid-air mating dance. The still photos on…

  jwilce

  September 30, 2016

  #dragonflies, #FlagstaffArizona, #insects, #mating rituals, #northern Arizona, #outdoor photography, #photography, #photonarratives, #wildlife photography, #wings, animal behavior, Arizona, insect behavior, insect photography

  #Arizona, #insects, #nature, #parks, #photoblog, #photography, #wings, Flagstaff

• Hitchhiker butterfly

  The other day, I came in from a photographic moment down on my knees in the front yard. This put my legs in direct contact with a pile of dead plant matter. So I should have seen this coming— a hitchhiker apparently crawled onto my blue jeans. So it was not until I came inside…

  jwilce

  September 30, 2016

  #butterflies, #FlagstaffArizona, #insects, #photography, #photonarratives, insect photography

  #Arizona, #insects, #photoblog, #photography, butterflies, Flagstaff

• Monarch Discovery

  Google Doodles— the graphics atop Google’s splash page that change every day—are sometimes worth taking the time to consider. Such was the case with the 9 January 2016 Google Doodle. The Doodle acknowledges the “41st Anniversary of the Discovery of the Mountain of the Butterflies” The mountain in Mexico where the monarchs “overwinter” is the…

  jwilce

  January 11, 2016

  #butterflies, #outdoor photography, #photography, insect photography, outdoor photography, rural America, wildlife photography

  #insects, #nature, #photography

• What’s the beetle doing to its companion?

  This brief video (about 7 seconds long) captures a pair of beetles, apparently “Darkling Beetles” (family Tenebrionidae). It shows one beetle touching the other with its antennae.  The video was shot September 5 on Fatman’s Loop trail (Mt. Elden area of Flagstaff, Arizona).  I removed the sound track and edited out most of the effects…

  jwilce

  September 7, 2015

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

  #beetles, #insects, #naturevideos

• 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

• Laguna Beach sojourn

  I’ve spent the last week in southern California— in Claremont (subject of a future posting) and Laguna Beach, a lovely smallish city lapped by the waves of the Pacific Ocean, some-time home to dolphins, with attractive old cottages in the town above, overlooking the ocean. Photos from this trip can be found here: http://www.wilcephotos.com/Beyond-northern-Arizona/ I…

  jwilce

  August 9, 2015

  #California, #photography, #photonarratives

  #birds, #Crescent Bay, #Hummingbirds, #insects, #Laguna Beach, #nature, #Pacific Ocean, #photography, #photonarratives, #publicspaces, #Shorebirds, #Southern California

• Looking back: New and old photos

  I was looking through some photos that are up to a decade old today, because I remembered some of them fondly. Three cameras are represented here— a Konica-Minolta DiMAGE Z6 (2004-2008), a Fujifilm Finepix S6500fd, and my current Canon Powershot SX50 HS (with just a few shots between the Finepix era and the Powershot era…

  jwilce

  July 30, 2015

  #accipiters, #digital cameras, #hawks, #photography, #photonarratives

  #Arizona, #bees, #birds, #bumblebees, #hawks, #insects, #nature, #photography, #photonarratives, #raptors, #technological improvement, #technology

• Another great day for insect photography in Flagstaff

  Until just two or three weeks ago it’s pretty safe to say I knew nothing about butterflies and moths (except that they like milkweed), let alone other insects.  (Well, of course I knew a bit about honeybees, bumblebees, wasps, flies, mosquitos…) But did I know anything about butterflies? Only monarchs. Dragonflies? Re. the order “Odonata”…

  jwilce

  July 19, 2015

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  #insects, #nature, #photography