Grey Treefrog. 120 mm (cropped), F/9, ISO 3200, 1/1250 sec exposure.

A tree frog posing for the camera.  300 mm, F/5.6, ISO 200, 1/60 sec exposure, cropped.

Some mushrooms.  75 mm, F/5.3, ISO 200, 1/40 sec exposure.

Taken at the Toronto Botanical Gardens.  105 mm, ISO 200, f/5.6, 1/160 sec exposure.

Dew on a spiders web. 300 mm, F/6.3, ISO 200, 1/60 sec exposure.

I'm in the process of trying out a new photo editing program, since I switched to a new computer and lost access to photoshop. I have a backlog of photos to post and hopefully I'll become more familiar with this program as time goes on. This is a picture from back in early October. The dew had formed large droplets on the grass and other objects.

Last picture of a monarch caterpiller, this time a small one. If I was a good photographer, I would have photoshopped out all the dead flies and milkweed "milk", but that would take too long. 300 mm, ISO 200, F/13, 1/3 sec. exposure.

Captured the end of the monarch butterfly life-cycle in this shot as it's being consumed by a common garden spider. 180 mm, ISO 200, F/13, 1/6 sec exposure.

This is a different monarch butterfly caterpillar. I used the diagonal line created by the leaf as a guide while cropping. 300 mm, ISO 200, F/13, 1/3 sec exposure.

I saw one of these monarch butterfly caterpillars the other day by our ponds and finally got down there with my camera recently. I often times have trouble producing a really sharp image of small objects and this one was not different. However, I did reduce the aperature to increase the depth of field and it seem to make things slightly sharper. 300 mm, ISO 200, F/13, 1/15 sec exposure.

Looked, but couldn't figure out what kind of flowers these were. I found them near a pond. 300 mm, ISO 200, F/13, 1/5 sec exposure.

This is a leopard moth that was perched on our front porch.

This is probably the best picture I took of a cicada.

This year was the hatch of a 13 year cicada (batch 19) around here. I've been around for a few hatches, but never lived out in the country. The experiance is quite different, with the sound truely defining for a solid week and a half. The hatch itself was amazingly syncrinous which allowed me to take this series of pictures documenting an emergence.

A mayfly hanging out around our porch light.

A leaf stuck in ice. I thought it was cool that the ice over the leaf retained the leaf's shape.

Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving. I had to take this picture at several different angles to get what I wanted, that being a picture showing both the underside and topside of the fungus as well as having some decent lighting.

This is from one of a group of trees that appear to be infected with some kind of disease/parasite. They all have giant knots like this one, but close up, it makes for a cool picture.

Not a whole lot to photograph around here lately. This one didn't turn out exactly like I'd like it, but I'm sure there will be plenty more opportunities over the course of the winter.

Milkweed Tussock Moth Caterpillar

I was visiting the ponds where I work and noticed a bunch of these caterpillars on one of the milkweed plants. I had never seen caterpillars like it before, so of course I had to snap a picture. One of my daughters adopted one as a pet and it has now pupated and we are waiting to see what the adult looks like.