calevphoto on March 28th, 2008

I always enjoy getting out and taking some pictures of bugs, so I was very happy that during the weekend we had a brief respite from the rain so I could get out and photograph.  The frustrating thing with insect photography is figuring out what I took pictures of afterwards.  Despite the fact that most [...]

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calevphoto on March 6th, 2008

I must admit that sometimes I really wish I had chosen birds over insects. Sure, birds can be more difficult to find - or at least more difficult to find a great variety of them.  However, consider this.  There are somewhere between 9,800 to 10,050 known species of birds in the world.  According to [...]

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calevphoto on February 15th, 2008

I mentioned in a previous post that I found a strange new insect when photographing this weekend.  I picked up a bag of dirt and found some interesting things underneath to shoot.  As I was above to coax a millipede onto a white sheet of paper, I noticed something tiny moving in the dirt.  I [...]

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calevphoto on January 24th, 2008

Most of my insect shots come from my back yard, where I often walk around picking up objects and seeing what I could find. One recent day, I was rather excited to find this interesting little bugger.

At first I thought it was a type of earwig as they look somewhat similar.

This dead earwig was found [...]

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