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A tree frog relishing tropical environs wintering indoors in New England at New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, MA.
... it's a boy! A fresh monarch has emerged, one to presumably venture to a far far away southern destination.
Who dropped the snowflake?
A not-too-shabby looking snowflake appears to have lost a leg (arm?) after some 'physical activity' in this mini pseudo glass menagerie!
Oh, the burden of a rime storm.
A 'poor' snowflake loses its edge in beauty and agility through an onslaught of rime!
I've concluded, thus far, the jumping spiders with the orange, black, and white (hair)do are the cutest.
Comet NEOWISE under the big dipper.
Having checked this comet out the night before near home, I noticed how dim the comet was getting, and amidst my light pollution, and even with the camera sensor picking up the comet, the image was not worth it. The following night, I drove about 25 miles to darker skies, and that made a world of a difference. This may be my last view of NEOWISE, and when it returns in over 6000 years, who knows, I may ride with it!
Same monarch as in a recent 'streamed image.
Reversed Elgeet 3-in. f/1.9 lens on a free-swinging bellows.
This image was only modified slightly from the original picture of a staircase. I cropped the photo slightly until I felt the leading lines were balanced. I used PicsPlay Pro to slightly boost the saturation and brightness.
Spring azure butterfly. I played like a decomposing log in the mud and was able to get within an inch-and-a-half!
A snowflake.
Essentially after about 10 inches of snow without traditional snowflake form, I went out at 10:30 p.m. to see if any residual flakes were falling. With the skies showing mostly stars, I did notice the very sparse sprinkling of snowflakes. These snowflakes had form and were on the larger size. I just had to find them naturally propped in the proper orientation!
Laowa 25mm at ~2.5x setting with 52.5mm of extension tube.
Same monarch, and about the same time as that last monarch image of mine, but the bokeh'd background is more prominent here!
Elgeet 3-in, f/1.9 lens reversed on a free-swinging bellows.
Is that my 20p coin? No, 'tis a platelet snowflake on the pile of bullet, column, and schloppy snowflakes, amidst a raging snowstorm! A blend of 14 slices of focus using PS auto-stack, auto-blend, and a bit of manual blend correction editing... Laowa 25mm at about full mag (5x) with about 57mm of extension tube, and a little final image crop.
A guard mason bee?
No, just a mason bee, presumably chilled overnight amidst the process of mudding in an egg... My presence gave it incentive to slowly crawl up to speed!
Spring flowers, Tower Hill Boylston, MA.
Freelensed (on a flppy bellows), a reversed Elgeet 3-inch f/1.9 oscilloscope lens.
Echinacea, Lensbaby Spark Special Edition 50mm f/2.
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill, Boylston, MA.
Orchids, New England Botanic Garden, Boylston, MA.
Used a little vaseline on the filter to a 50mm f/1.8 lens on a small extension tube, shot wide open, et voila!
A snowflake. About 14 slices of focus, auto-stacked and auto/manually blended with PS...
Laowa 25mm with over 50mm of extension tube.
A snowflake with a kickstand!
The top of this snowflake is tilted a little towards 'moi', and it looks as though a 'broken' arm of a snowflake is propping it up (the appendage dropping a hair right from vertical). Oh how ingenious these 'flakes can be!
Laowa 25mm with a 52.5mm extension tube.
The late migrator.
A seemingly tardy in migration monarch working the last of the season's flowers at Tower Hill, Boylston, MA.
Used an Elgeet 3-inch f/1.9 lens reverse mounted on a free-swinging bellows, effectively freelensing.
Brothers from the same neighborhood. Two snowflakes that look like they have come to earth together through the same path of atmospheric stimulation!
Single image.