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My wife planted several of these around the garden to ward off garden pests. They seem to work very well but I was more consumed by the very delicate form and the color.

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This little guy has been hanging around in my shop for the last week or so.
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[member=61023]BarneyD[/member] unless you have a bunch of other bugs in your shop, take the little mantis outside before it starves.
 
On a different scale, somewhere between Huntsville, Ala and Washington DC around 8pm Eastern time, July 22, ‘24.
I really appreciate computational photography. iPhone 14 Pro.

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Michael Kellough said:
[member=61023]BarneyD[/member] unless you have a bunch of other bugs in your shop, take the little mantis outside before it starves.

Thanks, Michael. He was a short walk away from the overhead door which I always leave open during nice weather. And, indeed when I came back to the shop after lunch, he was gone. They're good critters.
 
This year's elusive crocus, found in my yard for only about five days per year. 

Lumix G9, Nocticron 42.5mm lens, f/6.3, 1/160, ISO 200
 

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Fox kit in my neighbor's yard. 

Lumix G9, 50-200mm at 200mm, F/4, 1/500, ISO 1600.
 

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I like the fox photos Sparky...especially the 2nd one.  [smile]

Talk about elusive crocus, ours never even came up this year...not one.  [sad]  And to make things worse, the mulberry tree produced zilch and the 2 apricot trees flowered and then promptly dropped all of their fruit.

I think it was a combo of a very warm winter along with all of the rain that screwed things up.

 
Vacationing in Carmel, CA this past spring:
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Shot with an old Sony RX-10 iii, hand-held. One from a burst as they flew overhead.
 

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Tons of depth in this, it's my mobile device wallpaper.

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Another shot with lots of light happening. Pilings from a 1920's life saving station, early AM in summer.

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This truck does not exist. It's a Photoshop job I did many years ago, just found the pic again.
The real truck is just a normal single cab.
 

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Cheese said:
I like the fox photos Sparky...especially the 2nd one.  [smile]

Talk about elusive crocus, ours never even came up this year...not one.  [sad]  And to make things worse, the mulberry tree produced zilch and the 2 apricot trees flowered and then promptly dropped all of their fruit.

I think it was a combo of a very warm winter along with all of the rain that screwed things up.
 

Thank you, O Cheesy One.  I feel your pain.  A few years ago I got a shot of an Autumn Fires daylily in my yard.  Two days later, it was eaten by a deer.  It's never returned. 

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I also shot an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, dark form, on the Skyline Drive.  She patiently waited until my work was done before she moved on. 

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Shot this in the backyard about 8 years ago.

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Interesting that the bokeh is roughly the same in both butterfly photos, yet the exposure values are radically different.

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Five years ago I was lucky enough to witness the metamorphosis of a black swallowtail caterpillar into a butterfly.

The caterpillars like to eat dill.
After feeding enough it went looking for a safe place to roost.
It took a couple days for me to find the roost.

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