Gold In Purple
From deep in the archives - a dragonfly on a bud with purple flowers in the background. Slide film image.
Hepatica
Zinnia Bud
Doodle
Dragonfly
Monarch Butterfly
Ladybug
Damselfly
Tiny Toad
Sometimes in spring the ground is covered with these little toads, scarcely larger than a dime.
Peace Lily
Stink Bug
The all too ubiquitous Brown Marmorated Stink Bug...
Wild Columbine
Piece of Wood
Blue Dasher
Goats Beard Seed Head
From the archives.
Dragonfly
Just Visiting
A gnat in an abandoned hornet nest.
Bloodroot
Greenhouse Mum
Karner Blue
A once common, now endangered butterfly. From the archives.
Blue Dasher
Continuing with macro photos - a blue dasher dragonfly.
Ant Milking Aphids
A previously unprocessed image from 2016.
Ribbon Snake
From the archives.
Karner Blue
Prairie Trillium
Skipper
A small butterfly, resting on a blade of grass. From the archives.
Cicada
Coneflower Bud
A gray headed conflower bud.
Eastern Tailed Blue
Calico Pennant
A male calico pennant. I shot with the A*200 f4 macro wide open to minimize depth of field and create a somewhat blurred background, but focus stacked 8 exposures of the dragonfly itself, to keep it sharp.