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A thirty second exposure.

Some morel mushrooms I found last week in southwest Iowa. You’ll see four if you look close.

A big wolf spider in my basement.

A beautiful summer night in southwest Iowa.

Some Fall color at Glenwood park.

A Carolina Sphinx moth feeding on a Four O’Clock at dusk.

Four O’Clock stamen super-macro.

Sigma 150mm 2.8 EX Macro + Sigma 2x TC + 68mm Kenko extension tubes.

Burpee’s Marbles (Yellow & White) Four O’Clocks in my garden.

Dondiegos mix Four O’Clocks in my garden.

Some Kaleidoscope Four O’Clocks in my garden.

Big Toadie has lived in my garage for the last several summers, and comes out at night and eats june bugs and other insects under the outside light. She is a Woodhouse’s toad. It’s great fun to catch june bugs and pitch them to her.

I shot these daylilies at Hillsdale cemetery yesterday.

This quail was eating mulberries off of the ground when I spotted it.

A storm cell rolls across Mills county.

Catbirds eating grapefruit in my front yard. It was a good one. I ate the other half.

Two different B&W conversions of the same photo.

A dark, foggy morning in Mills county.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

A Cooper’s hawk cruising through the yard on a dreary winter day.

Christmas lights reflected in a puddle of water on a rainy night. I knew there was a reason why I hadn’t taken them down yet.

I captured these images of a Brown Thrasher last June on a gloomy evening about dusk. It had a baby just out of the nest and was very displeased with me. Evening is a great time to observe birds, but unfortunately the light is often poor for photos. Getting the “stare down” from mama thrasher definitely worked in my favor for these shots.

ISO 6400
1/160
F 5.6
560 mm

1/13 second exposure of fog in the beam of my Jetbeam flashlight, with a creative white balance adjustment.

Fog droplets in the beam of my flashlight. A 1/6 second exposure.

Tiny water droplets illuminated in the beam of my Jetbeam BA-20 flashlight on a foggy and breezy night.

The old St. Joseph’s Hospital in Ottumwa, Iowa.

I used the Wheeler Lightroom preset, BLACK, as a starting point for this B&W conversion.

Sparks from a campfire. I shot this one last summer.

A full-frame photo of a daddy longlegs shot with my 1D3.

Sigma 150mm 2.8 EX Macro + Sigma 2x TC + 68mm Kenko extension tubes and Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash.

Handheld. It’s not possible to focus and breathe at the same time with this setup.

I don’t think I ever saw the eyes of a daddy longlegs before I shot this. Notice the leg stubble.

ISO 800
F/32
1/300

I used Lightroom’s Split Toning feature to add some much needed color to this photo.

A freight train disappears into the fog in rural Mills county.

My neighbors’ excellent Christmas lights.

I’ve got quite a backlog of photos to post, so stay tuned for some more new stuff…

A few yellow morel mushrooms I found this last week in Mills county.

Some more morel mushrooms I found this week in Mills county.

I saw this eastern plains garter snake when I was mushroom hunting.

Some 2012 morel mushrooms from Mills county, in southwest Iowa.

The constellation Orion, on his way to the southern hemisphere.

42 mm
ISO 400
F/2.8
10 seconds

In the last rays, of the setting sun…

A Question Mark butterfly on a pear.

A fox I photographed a few years ago.

2001-2012, RIP Hunter.

An old photo revisited with the Wheeler Lightroom preset Night Grotto II. All of the Wheeler presets are available Here. They’re fun.

The Nishnabotna river, south of Malvern. I used the Wheeler Lightroom preset Night Grotto for the color effect.

A blue jay with a peanut.

Fog droplets on a bald cypress leaf.

A female praying mantis on the front fence.