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ETHANMILLER.NET

Morel Mushrooms

May 20th, 2014 by Ethan

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

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Some Fall Color

November 5th, 2013 by Ethan

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Some Fall color at Glenwood park.

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Four O’Clock Stamens

July 22nd, 2013 by Ethan

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Four O’Clock stamen super-macro.

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

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Marbles Four O’Clocks

July 15th, 2013 by Ethan

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

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Dondiegos Four O’Clocks

July 14th, 2013 by Ethan

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Dondiegos mix Four O’Clocks in my garden.

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Kaleidoscope Four O’Clocks

July 13th, 2013 by Ethan

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Some Kaleidoscope Four O’Clocks in my garden.

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Daylilies

July 1st, 2013 by Ethan

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I shot these daylilies at Hillsdale cemetery yesterday.

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Bubbles

January 6th, 2013 by Ethan

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

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Cherry Blossoms

April 30th, 2012 by Ethan

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A Few More Morels

April 7th, 2012 by Ethan

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

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More Morels

April 6th, 2012 by Ethan

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

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Morel Mushrooms

April 5th, 2012 by Ethan

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

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American Plum

March 25th, 2012 by Ethan

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In the last rays, of the setting sun…

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Fog Droplets

February 24th, 2012 by Ethan

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Fog droplets on a bald cypress leaf.

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Falling Snow

February 22nd, 2012 by Ethan

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Snow falling out of the tree.

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Melting Snow

February 20th, 2012 by Ethan

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The best kind. 150mm macro.

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Chicory

February 17th, 2012 by Ethan

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A Chicory blossom at Glenwood Lake Park.

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Violets

February 16th, 2012 by Ethan

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An old photo revisited with Lightroom 3. I shot this in 2006 at Hillsdale cemetery.

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Morel Mushrooms

May 8th, 2011 by Ethan

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I found these morel mushrooms last week.

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Venus Flytrap Blossoms

January 2nd, 2011 by Ethan

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A couple of Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) blossoms from last summer.

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Winter Solstice Eclipse

December 21st, 2010 by Ethan

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The lunar eclipse from early this morning. Conditions were perfect – clear & calm with temps in the low 30s. The Cold Moon was full at 2:14 AM CST. The coyotes were howling and several times I heard the echo of an owl hooting in the slough down across the highway. I even saw a shooting star. Very satisfactory for an event which has not occurred in the last 456 years.

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Glenwood Park

December 20th, 2010 by Ethan

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A beautiful November afternoon at Glenwood Park.

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Pink Crabapple

May 21st, 2010 by Ethan

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A pink crabapple bud from the tree in my front yard.

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Prairie Fire Crabapple

April 24th, 2010 by Ethan

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A Prairie Fire crabapple tree in my yard.

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Coneflower

February 19th, 2009 by Ethan

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A spot of color for ya.

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Raliegh Road

November 30th, 2008 by Ethan

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Autumn in Mills county.

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Flying Away

August 7th, 2008 by Ethan

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A floating seed that was temporarily stuck on a very thin strand of web which is barely visible in the full-size version of this shot.

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Tiny Mushroom

May 27th, 2008 by Ethan

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A tiny morel mushroom forces its way through the leaf litter.

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Flames

May 24th, 2008 by Ethan

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I was burning last year’s sunflower stalks when I made this photograph.

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One Man’s Weed…

May 22nd, 2008 by Ethan

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Some people actually try to kill these things !!!

I just want to say thanks to those of you who still stop by here to check out my work. Once I get off this slow dial-up connection I’ll get back to visiting everyone’s blogs & websites more often.

I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend. Cheers !!

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Downy Phlox

May 17th, 2008 by Ethan

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Some Downy Phlox I saw when I was out mushroom hunting.

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Morel Mushroom

May 7th, 2008 by Ethan

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A morel mushroom at an undisclosed location 😉

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Bubbles

April 25th, 2008 by Ethan

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Another one from last weekend.

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The Butterfly Tree

April 17th, 2008 by Ethan

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I found this small tree yesterday at Foothills Park that was scraped by deer and the sap had attracted Mourning Cloaks, Question Marks, a Red Admiral, and several flies.

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Ring of Fire

April 11th, 2008 by Ethan

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Another shot from when I burned weeds last month.

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Happy Spring !!

March 20th, 2008 by Ethan

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I was burning weeds yesterday when I snapped this shot with my Canon Powershot SD1000. It has no manual controls but I was able to manipulate the shutter speed by varying the amount of sky in the frame.

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More Ice

February 21st, 2008 by Ethan

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Not very exciting…I know.

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2007 Rewind – May/A Long Distance Traveler, A Robin, A Crowing Rooster, & Some Fungus Among Us

February 9th, 2008 by Ethan

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This was the first Monarch I saw last spring. I posted an open-wing photo last May. I’ve wanted a photo of one of these tattered travelers for a long time.

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The lens was partially obscured by a tree branch blowing in the wind. That’s why it looks green. Not exactly the effect I was going for, but I like it anway.

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Terry, crowing his little heart out. He’s a nice rooster. He hardly ever attacks people, and even then they’re mostly just scared. Mostly.

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I thought it was a puffball growing by my compost bin – until it popped and there was nothing inside. I’ve never seen anything like it.

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A strange little puffball-type mushroom I found in my yard. If you know what it is, let me know.

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I found this one when I was out mushroom hunting last May. It appears to be from the previous summer.

May 2007 was a very photographically diverse month for me – a grass fire, flooding, fighter planes, plus all the usual stuff. And I almost got a funnel cloud too !!

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2007 Rewind – December/Ice & Fog

January 30th, 2008 by Ethan

Alright. It’s cold, windy, & gloomy outside and I don’t have anything new that’s worth uploading.
Let’s have another look at 2007 and a bunch of photos I never got around to posting…

Aside from Christmas, all I can remember about December 2007 is alot of ice & fog. How many ice storms were there ? Five or six ? I lost count.

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Ice encrusted honeysuckle berries.

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A very foggy morning at Mile Hill Lake.

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Eastern Wahoo Tree

January 10th, 2008 by Ethan

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The fruit of an Eastern Wahoo tree. I shot this one last Fall.

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West Oak Forest

January 9th, 2008 by Ethan

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Looking down from the bluff at West Oak Forest in the Loess Hills near Glenwood.

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Powdery Snow

January 4th, 2008 by Ethan

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Powdery snow shining in the morning sun.

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A Foggy Day

December 22nd, 2007 by Ethan

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A very foggy morning at Pony Creek Park in Mills county.

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Sunday Morning

December 19th, 2007 by Ethan

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A sunny Sunday morning with hoar frost in the trees.

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Icy Branches

December 18th, 2007 by Ethan

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We were very lucky here – the power stayed on. There was major ice damage just 40 miles away.

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Encased in Ice

December 18th, 2007 by Ethan

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A honeysuckle branch completely covered with ice.

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Locust Treehopper

September 6th, 2007 by Ethan

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A Locust Treehopper (Thelia bimaculata) on a Black Locust tree in my yard. (That’s a thorn in the background.)

ISO 800
1/250
f/16
300 mm

Canon EOS-20D
Sigma 150 2.8 EX Macro + Sigma 2X TC
Sigma EM-140 DG Macro Flash

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Mating Cicadas

August 16th, 2007 by Ethan

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These cicadas were in my yard a couple of nights ago. As numerous as they are, I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen a pair mating.

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Parasitic Wasp Eggs

August 11th, 2007 by Ethan

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Parasitic wasp eggs on a Catalpa worm. This catalpa tree was full of them and there were about 20 hanging like this with eggs on them.

This was the most googled image on my old site so I thought I would post it again.

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Early Evening Scene

July 26th, 2007 by Ethan

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A Monarch perches on an aphid infested milkweed plant.

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