Roses, Pumpkin Blossoms, Mums, and Woodsorrel

December 1, 2012December 1, 20122 Comments

Macro Pumpkin Blossoms

Trivia:
These are male pumpkin blossoms.

Macro Nearly Wild Roses

Trivia:
The spider is known as a Daring Jumping Spider. It’s orange spots mean that it’s a fairly young one. The spots will turn white as it gets older. This type of spider is a hunter rather than a web weaver.

Macro White Roses

Macro Mums and Yellow Woodsorrel

Trivia:
Yellow Woodsorrel is edible.

I’d also like to mention that I like how you can now post multiple galleries to one post in WordPress. 🙂 Very useful.

Photomanipulation: Butterfly on Flowers

October 24, 2012November 18, 20121 Comment

I was playing with Photoshop today and photomanipulated this. It should look like a realistic butterfly perched on a watercolor-ish flower cluster. What do you think?

The butterfly is a Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta). I’m not sure what the flower is, but it’s one of those common landscaping flowers you see in planters and beds all over the place. I took this photo at a mini-golf course last summer in Sister Bay, Wisconsin.

Buy a print or a card.

Macro Flowers and Plants – Some with Cool Bugs

October 22, 2012October 31, 2012Leave a comment

The bee and the chrysanthemum are available as prints and other products.

Leaves in the Water

October 15, 2012October 31, 20122 Comments

The lilypad image is available as a print.

Illustration Friday: Water

October 12, 2012January 13, 20246 Comments

I was pleasantly surprised this morning to find the Illustration Friday topic to be the one I suggested recently. I think I suggested it last week or the week before. And, yes, it’s mine because I was cited as the one who suggested it. It’s a little thing, but isn’t it cool?

So, that’s why my hits are unusually high today and probably will be all week. Yay! Welcome everyone from IF. Feel free to take a look around the site and comment on things. Make yourselves at home. Follow me if you like.

But now I’m sitting here with MY illustration topic as the one for the week. Which means I really should post something good. Initially I suggested the topic after photographing this image:

I really liked it and I thought “water” would make a great topic. But it’s hardly an illustration, is it? Well, maybe a photo illustration. Not exactly what Illustration Friday is all about, though.

I could also post one of several other water-related images I’ve created in the past.

Or I could point to the series of Rocks and Water photographs I took in Wisconsin this summer.

I really would like to give IF something new, though. Perhaps I could finish off this sketch which I started for the IF topic of “carry” but never finished.

Really, though, I’m afraid I won’t work on anything for IF because this week I have THINGS TO DO. The kids are off school several days in the coming week, I have to send out Halloween-themed art samples to potential clients before the end of the month, I need to meet with a web design client sometime next week, and I’m preparing all my stuff for the SCBWI conference on the 27th. I’m busy.

So, it may turn out that this week I’ll have nothing new to contribute to IF, even though Penelope was kind enough to choose my topic.

Praying Mantis

October 10, 2012Leave a comment

Look what we found in the yard today.

More Macro Flower Pictures

October 10, 2012October 21, 20124 Comments

I kind of wanted to take pictures of fall leaves on a nice, sunny fall day. But the leaves haven’t quite turned yet. A few, but not mostly. So, I took pictures of flowers instead.

One of the purple ones is vinca major, but I’m not sure what the other two purple ones are. I also don’t know what the white one is. The rest are roses, sunflowers, and mums.

Some of these are available as prints.

Macro Flower Pictures

September 28, 2012October 21, 20121 Comment

After I finished taking pictures of the hawk I decided to take a few flower pictures while I was out in the yard anyway. There aren’t that many flowers out in my yard this time of year, but I found a few.