Aug 13
Yesterday I posted a shot of a White that had me puzzled because of the orange markings. As it turned out, that coloration identifies the female of the species. Today, I’m posting a shot of the male Pine White. He’s enjoying nectar from a Cutleaf Coneflower.
Aug 12
I captured this White butterfly on the Shultz Tank trail. A gorgeous but extremely difficult butterfly to photograph. They won’t sit still! Thanks to Tom H for the identity. It’s a Pine White. That’s what I thought but the orange edging confused me. I found out today that the female has orange. Thanks to my Cazba(.org) friends!
Aug 11
We were in Colorado at the beginning of the first round of Wildflowers. Ahhh to live closer and be there right now! I’m sure the Sunflowers are out in force along with many other species. This scene was at about 11000 plus elevation. Once again, it was extremely bright creating a very contrasty image. This time I applied a diffuse glow which not only lightened the deep shadows but also softened the overall scene.
Aug 10
I shot his from my office window before a recent storm. Although it looks dramatic, the photo doesn’t truly translate how spectacular the light through the clouds was!
Aug 9
A couple of my Flagstaff friends had identified this as a Sego Lily but because of deeper color in the center and the elevation where we saw it, I didn’t think so. We put our heads together with some experts on higher elevation plants and found out I was right to question it. It is a Doubting Mariposa Lily as I thought. Cool 🙂
Aug 8
I’m hoping to find Cutleaf Coneflower in bloom on our upcoming road trip to Flagstaff. This photo was taken on the Schultz Pass trail last year about this time. The background was pretty boring so I played it up by adding various textures. It made a fun print!
Aug 7
It’s an especially good year for Prickly Pear fruit! They look so yummy that I took my friend Alice’s advice and put some in the freezer. Now to check out some recipes. There’s so much more you can do than just that jellied Prickly Pear Candy 🙂
Droid shot of Prickly Pear Fruit during a recent morning walk
Aug 3
Chris has embraced Crossfit, the Paleo Diet and Tough Mudders for the past 5 years and continues to be passionate about all of it. So much so that he now has a website and will be starting a blog giving tips on Training, Nutrition, Recovery, etc! He also has a public Facebook page doing the same. He’s not sure where he’ll go with all this but I see more photo ops in my future 🙂
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