Taken on an iPhone. A giant bug can be seen right off the left, over the Winthrop Glacier.

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I hear the waterfall guys talking about the 10 O’ clock Rule in shooting falls, my wife and I have a Friday Night Rule for going on backpacking trips. One is infinitely more likely to find seclusion and the resulting peace and quiet on Friday night vs Saturday. So off …

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@ Mountain Haven Forest Area in Eden, Davao City. Taken with all-Canon 5DMk2 with mpe-e 65 and Twinflash at 1x.

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I found this Lesser Fritillary in the Shesher Creek Drainage which is near Lemhi Pass.

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See it better, tap on the photo… Many of my photos are taken hand held, this one was too. Lately I’ve been observing bugs and insects interaction. I’ve seen butterflies been bother by flies, and hummingbirds by bees, but this one is a funny one, it’s getting a free lift! …

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On the 21st of April me and 3 friends went to Tollymore forest park. It turned out to be a fantastic sunny day apart from the haze which really spoiled some of the landscape shots however the forest shots turned out fantastic. It was a 14km walk roughly and quite …

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Just a generation ago the Stour was in a sad state. Heavy pollution had taken its toll and turned it into a virtually lifeless river. For years the Stour was famous not for its wildlife but for the rainbow-coloured dyes that flowed into it from the local carpet manufacturing units. …

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This is the White-top Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia leucophylla). Visiting bugs slip down the small hairs that line the surface around the pitcher and fall into a pool of liquid. In this liquid are digestive enzymes so the plant can "eat" the fallen prey. This plant was found in the Apalachicola …

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For Grateful Daze and Macromavens. Papilio rutulus, the Western Tiger Swallowtail, is seen here on Common Vetch (Vicia sativa). Specimen was observed in Charles L. Pack Experimental Forest at the bottom of the Reservoir Trail. It was unperturbed by my careful repositioning of the surrounding grass in order to get …

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Photos (by Erica) of our desert millipedes taken for a class photo-essay.

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