May 9th, 2007
some news
Those who know me well, also know that I’m rather pathetic at blowing my own horn. I’m very shy and incredibly uncomfortable about talking up what I do — not exactly a useful characteristic for a person who should be doing more to promote her nature photography. So, in the interest of doing some shameless self-promotion, I just wanted to say that I’ve just received a copy of the new book on the Misumena vatia spider, Predator Upon A Flower, by Douglass H. Morse. That’s one of my spider photos on the book jacket. I haven’t had time to read much of the book yet, but it seems very interesting and I’ve already learned a few things. There’s also quite a good chapter on Xysticus crab spiders. I’ve been trying to find out more about them as I see a lot of them around here guarding egg cases. Apparently, the largest ones are Xysticus emertoni, which is what I suspected – so I think maybe those are the species I’ve been seeing and photographing. I’ll post a more complete review of the book after I have some time to do more reading.
Yesterday, I also just received a copy of the new Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America. I have a few small photos in that as well.
So there you go – my first attempt at shameless self-promotion. I promise not to do this too often. (-:
Tags: nature photography