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My friend, Jim Poushinsky, sent this photo of the Gray Tree Frog (Hyla versicolor) that apparently stowed away in his house to spend the winter. As first mentioned last week, the frog was discovered after family members reported loud high-pitched chipping calls from various parts of the house on an almost daily basis. Deciding that, […]
I was soon interrupted from my shooting by Eric’s exclamations – not quite of the magnitude of an excited outburst – but enough so that I knew he must have made a very interesting discovery. Finishing up with my first subject, I came over to view the source of the excitement. It was a wonderful […]
Yesterday, I spent part of the afternoon looking through last summer’s insect photos. I’d received a request from a book publisher who wanted a particular shot of a spider, so I scanned through a couple of months of photos picking out all the images that might fill the bill. While doing so, I couldn’t help […]
This the second in my posts about favourite moments of nature observation that have occurred over the past couple or so years. It’ll help to pass the time spent indoors this winter as I wait to be back out observing insects, spiders, frogs and others. I shot this photo in late summer 2003. It’s of […]
A couple of recent photography-related posts have reminded me that I’ve been meaning to write up something about working in low-light conditions. Wayne at Niches has just written two super posts on photographing the night sky — see here and here. Check out the second of these posts to see some interesting photos taken the […]
To follow-up on yesterday’s post about Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor), for the past couple of weeks, on sunny afternoons, I’ve been finding quite a few juvenile frogs basking on Common Milkweed leaves. Air temperatures have recently dropped off at night and days are moderate. Such conditions seem to bring out the young frogs in numbers. […]
Back on August 14, I wrote about the Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor) that wander about on our windows at night. The previous evening, I had missed an opportunity to photograph a frog on the living room window. Last night, I got a second chance for a few shots after a thunderstorm earlier in the evening. […]