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About birds n' bugs

Retired, living in SW Florida and spending my time at nature photography in my local area. I volunteer with a couple of local organizations to help my adopted home town. Travelling is now by airplane and car instead of a sailboat but happy anyway.

A few more bugs with the 55-200mm

Posted on 2013/07/09 by birds n' bugs

For the last couple of days, I’ve gone out to walk around with only the Nikkor DX 55-200mm kit zoom lens on the Nikon V1. In my fanny pack I have the SB-N7 flash and the Raynox DCR-150 achromat lens. … Continue reading →

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Hairy Maggot Blowfly

Posted on 2013/07/02 by birds n' bugs

What a terrible name even if it is true. They are actually reasonably attractive flies. In trying to identify it, I discovered that you can tell the gender by the eye position. Today’s fund fact: The males eyes meet on … Continue reading →

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Ceraunus Blue – Hemiargus Ceraunus

Posted on 2013/06/26 by birds n' bugs

This is another small butterfly, similar to the Grey Hairstreak I showed in May. It’s about the same size as can be seen here where a Ceraunus Blue is sharing lunch with a Hairstreak. You can see the blue of … Continue reading →

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V1 Telezoom size comparisons

Posted on 2013/06/26 by birds n' bugs

In a couple of my posts now I’ve shown images with the Nikon V1 and Nikkor 55-200mm DX VR lens. I pointed out that I really like it on the body and was not concerned about it’s weight on the … Continue reading →

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Looks like I’ll have one less butterfly this year

Posted on 2013/06/24 by birds n' bugs

I have a Butterfly Weed – Asclepias curassavica in a pot hoping to attract more butterflies. It is a host plant for Monarchs and other butterflies seem to like it too. It seems to have worked because I soon found … Continue reading →

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A curve I left out

Posted on 2013/06/24 by birds n' bugs

While I was pulling together pictures with curves to decide on what to present, I ran across this one from my Wingwalker post. I left it out and went with those from nature. This weekend though, the aircraft shown with … Continue reading →

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Let’s throw another curve

Posted on 2013/06/20 by birds n' bugs

I had a chance to walk to the park today. A little later than usual. Not much activity but I found another nice curve picture in the Sea Oats. I had been looking out over the harbor and when I … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

Posted on 2013/06/19 by birds n' bugs

This is hardly a challenge. I am a nature photographer and curves are the natural state of almost every form from a damselfly’s wing to a tree arching over a slow moving stream. Here you are, have a dozen

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Nikon V1 with the Nikkor 55-200mm VR kit lens

Posted on 2013/06/19 by birds n' bugs

The Nikkor 55-200mm VR is a common kit zoom for the DSLR range. I tried one on my Nikon V1 using the FT-1 adapter. I had previously tried other AF-S lenses but felt that they were cumbersome and the requirement … Continue reading →

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Thomisadae – Crab Spiders

Posted on 2013/06/15 by birds n' bugs

The comment on the post below, from Chatou11, reminded of how much I enjoy finding and watching the Thomisadae which are one of the spider species commonly referred to as Crab Spiders or Flower Crab Spiders because of their hunting … Continue reading →

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