Ruddy Turnstone
The ruddy turnstone is among my favorite shorebirds because his name is easy to remember. This one is transitioning to his breeding plumage in the light of a Sanibel sunrise. Taken with Nikon D90 and...
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Spreadwing Damselfly in Autumn Color
A spreadwing damselfly among the colors of autumn. Spreadwings are damselflies; they share the slender body of most damselflies but tend to hold their wings away from their bodies rather than fold...
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Saddleback Caterpillar: Look, No Touch!
Beautiful but deadly! Well, not deadly, but extremely uncomfortable. This saddleback caterpillar, Acharya stimuli, is bristling with stinging hairs. Potent enough to cause nausea in addition to...
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Autumn Oak Cathedral (Rokinon Fisheye)
I don’t often use my Rokinon Fisheye, but when I do, it’s awesome. The forest canopy in autumn color is a prime subject. Here we have a northern white oak on the right, and a chestnut oak on the left....
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Best Cheap Nikon Macro Lens: 60mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor
The Nikon 60mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor is not only my Nikon macro lens, it’s my favorite lens in general. In Nikon lenses, only Micro Nikkors offer true macro. The Nikkor 18-55 DX and 70-300 zooms do...
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Red Face at f/32
Taken with a Micro-Nikkor 60mm on a Nikon D90. Autumn meadowhawk dragonflies are the last dragonflies to leave the local ponds in the fall. They stick around, as long as the weather holds, into...
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Nikon DSLR Best Value: D90
Nikon D90 DSLR: Not the latest, but still great Bottom line: Even today, I think a used D90 is best “cheapest” camera. Cheap here means it is the least expensive option with the qualities we want....
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Brilliant Sugar Maple
Taken with my favorite lens, the Nikon AF FX Micro-NIKKOR 60mm f/2.8D. Sugar Maple leaf in the late afternoon autumn sun. The leaf was held perpendicular to the sun in order give definition to the...
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Sassafras Texture
More captures of autumn with a Nikon 60mm AF 2.8 Micro-Nikkor. A sassafras leaf. Did you know safrole a compound in sassafras tea is banned for use and manufacture in the United Stated? Related...
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Black-Crowned Night Heron is Back
Photographed with a Nikon AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-300mm lens on a Nikon D90. You could say Black-Crowned Night Heron‘s Back, too. We featured a different black-crowned night heron in a previous post....
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Last Chrysalis
A chrysalis matures in the early days of October. The monarch butterfly in this chrysalis needs to get it moving. The window for migration is closing quickly. The hint of wing patterns suggests the...
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Ant Farm
Ants farming aphids for honeydew on a wild senna stem, Senna hebecarpa. The ants appear to be red-banded carpenter ant, Camponotus chromaiodes, based on a quick internet search. An even quicker search...
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