The Best of The Dragonfly Woman 2012
Alex Wild is encouraging everyone to display their best science and nature photos of 2012, so I’m jumping on the photo sharing bandwagon! I feel that 2012 was a pretty good year for me...
View ArticleInsects vs. Three Smartphone Macro Lenses
A lot of you know about my addiction to photographing insects with my cell phone. I enjoy the challenge. Cell phone macro attachments are incredibly limiting in so many ways, especially where depth...
View ArticleWell-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: Leggy
When I went to Bug Shot in August, I came across dozens of different spiders. I almost walked into the web of this one, and caught sight of it just before I ended up with a spider on my face: Spider...
View ArticleMy Aquatic Insect Photography Setup
Over the past few years I’ve had several people ask me how I photograph aquatic insects. I think it’s time I share my method! Hope this will help some of you take some amazing aquatic insect shots –...
View ArticleSteve Maxson’s Photos
Guess what? After I shared my aquatic insect photo setup on Monday, the wonderful photographer I learned it from, Steve Maxson, got in touch with me and said I could share a few of his photos with you!...
View ArticleWell-Nigh Wordless Wednesday: New Toys!
I mentioned in the post I wrote just before my recent trip to California that I had gotten some new toys: new cameras. Most excitingly, I have long coveted the Canon MP-E 65 lens, so I bought myself...
View ArticleBest of the Dragonfly Woman 2013
Alex Wild has called on all nature loving bloggers to once again share their favorite photos from 2013. Because I can’t resist that sort of fun, I’m going to make a contribution. Here goes! This has...
View ArticlePhotographing Aquatic Insects
I ended up getting this up a few days later than planned, but better late than never, eh? Today I’m going to share my current aquatic insect photography setup! About a year ago, I wrote about the...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: My First Digital Insect Macro Shot
I missed Wordless Wednesday yesterday, so today I bring you a Throwback Thursday shot instead! If you have been living under a social media rock (I know lots of people who do!) and don’t know about...
View ArticleBest of 2014 and a Resolution
A lot of bloggers do best of the year compilations at the end of the year, and I focus mine on insect photos. Because I haven’t gotten to be very active on my blog this year, you all haven’t even seen...
View ArticleInsect Macrophotography with a Canon Powershot SX60
I was given a new camera for my birthday last month. As you all probably know, I LOVE my cameras and I take photos with them all the time. The new camera, a Canon Powershot SX60, was an unlikely...
View ArticlePhotobomber (Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday)
A couple of weekends ago, I went to the mountains of North Carolina to look for hellbenders. For those of you unfamiliar with these magnificent creatures, they’re HUGE salamanders, as in foot-long...
View ArticleDragonfly Woman’s Best Photos of 2015
I like to look back at the end of the year each year to see what I’ve accomplished photographically. I took over 27,000 photos in 2015! Most of them are never posted on my blog, so this year, rather...
View ArticleA Year of Insects on Instagram (Well-Nigh Wordless Wednesday)
Even though I have a lot of social media accounts, I wouldn’t consider myself a huge social media user. Yes, I realize the irony of broadcasting that statement in a blog post, but it’s true. I, for...
View ArticleHome
I am taking part in a WordPress “class” over the next few weeks that focuses on photography. Since I haven’t been able to blog often recently, I intend to use the class as a challenge to get a photo...
View ArticleStreet
Today’s Photography 101 topic is “street,” which is a little tough for someone who blogs about insects! Here’s my “street:” That creek is Sabino Creek in Sabino Canyon outside Tucson. It is full...
View ArticleWater
Today’s Photography 101 topic is practically made for me: water! Here’s my choice of photo: This is a waterfall on the same creek I shared yesterday, in Sabino Canyon just outside Tucson, AZ. I...
View ArticleBliss
“Bliss” is today’s Photography 101 topic, so this is my bliss: Dancer damselfly in Pima County, AZ That’s my first odonate (dragonfly or damselfly) of 2016! Saw it recently in Arizona at the Desert...
View ArticleSolitude
I wasn’t able to get this online yesterday, but this is my photo for the Photography 101 theme “solitude:” I spent a lot of time on my recent trip to Arizona looking for insects, and happily it was...
View ArticleMy Weekend in Photos
The Photography 101 assignment for the weekend was to explore the rule of thirds/composition and create a gallery, so I spent a fair bit of the weekend looking for interesting things to photograph....
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