Bugs: Bee on Milkweed

Bugs: Bee on Milkweed, photo by Mary Stebbins. Click image to view larger.

Sorry it will be a while before I get caught up.

Bugs: Moth, by Keith

Bugs: Moth, by Keith, click image to view arger. 

Bugs: Grasshopper

Bugs: Grasshopper, by Mary Stebbins Taitt, click image to view larger.

From the front steps at Chapel House. 

MACRO DOF - Hogweed

I hope you like this as it is my favourite in this series.

BUGS - Caterpillar

Just hanging out!!

Bugs - Dragonfly

I love the light through his transparent wings. I used Filter, Brush Strokes, Accented Edges on this as it was really only focused on the tip of the branch. Then I cloned in a bit of missing wing. His top left wing.

More Bugs at Last

I made a big effort on Saturday while sitting around the almost empty pond to try and capture some gorgeous big blue dragonflies. There are tons of them this year. But they do not land on anything. They hover for a bit but not long enough to focus. But this obliging little fella landed on a leaf. Taken with full zoom on 300mm. I am wondering if this is the same as Keith's dragonfly.

Bugs Outtake: Damsel Fly

Bugs Outtake: Damsel Fly, by Mary Stebbins, click image to view larger. 

Photique themes for JULY and August

Themes for July and August;

July

3: season/holiday (We have our July 4 Holiday)
10: Grasses
17: Bugs

24: MACRO, dof--high and low dof (or differential dof with telephoto if no macro available)

31: open/family & friends?/favorites of the month

August:

7: Season/Summer Holiday/vacation
14: sunsets, sunrises, low light
21: Triangles
28: Trees or leaves as a compositional element/other vertical/horizontal or leaf-shaped composition elements

OK let me know if this is not correct!

Grass

Grass

Grass

Here is one of the grass pictures I took and never had time to post.

GRASSES - Outtake

Bryher getting in on the picture

GRASSES - Outtake

The barley field with All Saints Church, Messing in the background

Grass: Artpark

Grass: Artpark, by Mary Stebbins Taitt, click iamge to view larger.

At the Stone Quarry Artpark in Cazenovia, NY. 

Grass: Stone Quarry Art Park

Grass: Stone Quarry Art Park, photo by Mary Stebbins Taitt, click image to view large.

This is mypoet-friend jo(e). 

GRASSES - Intake

Cropped extensively and poster edge added and faded

GRASSES - Intake

More barley taken early morning while walking my temporary dog. He has actually stopped me from taking many pictures as if I stay a while trying to get shots he runs off and gets lost so most of the time I havn't even taken my camera with me.

GRASSES - Intake (I think)

A curtain of grasses

GRASSES - Intake

Barley growing in the field on the way to the woods

Grasses - Outtake

A local footpath in the opposite direction to the one I take when I go to the woods. This reminds me of country footpaths when I was in my teens when the farmers didn't use so much weedkiller around the edges of the fields. I love all the lush growth even though it means you get grass seed stuck in your socks and shoes and nettle stings on your bare legs.