#macrophotography
“People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.”
~ Aldous Huxley
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“Just before the green begins there is the hint of green
a blush of color, and the red buds thicken
the ends of the maple’s branches and everything
is poised before the start of a new world,
which is really the same world
just moving forward from bud
to flower to blossom to fruit
to harvest to sweet sleep, and the roots
await the next signal, every signal
every call a miracle and the switchboard
is lighting up and the operators are
standing by in the pledge drive we’ve
all been listening to: Go make the call.”
~
“April Prayer” by Stuart Kestenbaum from Prayers and Run-on Sentences. © Deerbrook Editions, 2007
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Blossom in the sky
As shaggy as the old umbel of the great Hogweed on which it found refuge against the cold April wind, a freshly hatched Saint Mark’s fly.
Garlic mustard is one of the first to bloom along forest paths. Its crumpled leaves give off a smell of garlic. Despite this sulphurous smell, it is one of the favorite hosts of the orange tip, a graceful butterfly with orange-marked white wings.
(Alliaria petiolata - April 2015)
Goldenrod crab spider (Misumena vatia, Fam. Thomisidae)
The gray weather and the cold wind do not really encourage the photo outing. Fortunately, there is always something going on in the honeysuckle hedge that borders the garden!
Finally reunited!
After waiting all winter in the darkness of their lodges in the hollow of the bamboo stalks,
After flying incessantly around the nests,
Carpenter bee pairs form in the warm March sun
Mason bees visiting nests while searching females (Osmia sp, Megachilidae - March 2022)
European hornet(Vespa crabro - March 2022)
Catkins are back
Spider mom
(Pisaura mirabilis)
Lime hawk moth, (Mimas tiliae - Sphingidae)
For #macromonday here are two monarch butterflies, in the process of creating more monarch butterflies. Taken 7/10/21. #nature #wildlife #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #butterflies #lepidoptera #monarchbutterfly #canon #canon5dmarkiv #insect #invertebrate #nys #upstateny #nywildlife #nativepollinators
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Some club moss creating a forest within a forest. Taken 8/8/21. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/forest-within-a-forest-henry-wagner.html
A heart, within the heart of a Queen Anne’s lace flower. Taken this morning. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/heart-within-henry-wagner.html
