Monday in Nature Weekly Photo Oct. 6, 2014

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<p>Good Morning,<br>

Let's just dive right in. I hope you've all had a great week. Fall color is coming on strong around here. What's going on in your end of nature?</p><div></div>

<p>Microscopic fall color. Stomatal complex of Begonia at 4x. 3 images stacked.</p><div></div>

<p>More webs....;-) Good morning everyone!</p><div></div>

<p>Another from Wildwood Park in Harrisburg, using my Pentax K-5ii and Sigma 150-500 again.</p><div></div>

<p>Day's end at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas. </p><div></div>

Bugs busy collecting pollen from last remaining few wild flowers.<div></div>

<p>Wet fall=lawn covered by these. </p><div></div>

<p>Great image Rick, it almost looks like an abstract painting of roses. Was it taken with a microscope?<br /> I was out locking up the chickens for the night when I seen this guy in a tree. When I came back with my camera he was staring intently at something and paid me no attention. I imagine a lizard or some other form of dinner was in the grass. I'll never know as he flew away without grabbing whatever it was.<br /> <a href="/photo/17875975&size=md"><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17875975-md.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="523" /></a><br /> <a href="/photo/17875975&size=md"><strong>Tropical Screech-Owl <em>(Otus choliba)</em></strong></a></p>

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<p>Over the past couple of years I am finding more of these four toed salamanders in my yard. I do not know if the population is increasing or if I've simply been more fortunate in finding them. Either way, they are always a treat to discover.</p><div></div>

<p>last tuesday morning along maroon creek road in a light snowfall</p><div></div>

<p>Gordon B - great salamander shot! Not fall colors, but this Mwanza Flat-headed Agama is very colorful. EOS 5D2 + 24-105 f4L at 105mm; 1/800s at f/8 ISO 400.</p><div></div>

<p>Echinacea and dragonfly. Pentax ME Super and 200mm f4.0 SMC-M; Kodak "Gold"C-41 film @ EI 400 (expired).<br /> <img src="https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2946/15220799017_a0304e6620_z.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="424" /></p>

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<p>Gordon, lovely shot.</p>

<p>A real mouthful!</p>

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<p>Last week I was playing with my macro lens and the scales on a butterfly wing, this week with the 600mm and something a little further away. This isnt perfect, was hand-held so a bit of fuzziness, but VR does wonders. Although there isnt much life there, I imagine geology and geographic features count as nature. Both Tycho and Copernicus are visible. This was shot in the daylight, so I cheated a bit in darkening the sky on the conversion to B&W, but it helped highlight teh contrasts of shadows to bring out the craters and topography better.</p><div></div>

<p><em>Honkenya peploides</em>, or life on the rocks.</p><div></div>

<p>No shooting this week, so here's one from the not-so-recent past. What I really wanted was a shot of that javelina (wild boar) that ran through our backyard yesterday. By the time I got past the "oh crap" stage, it was gone before I could grab my camera. That's my third javelina encounter and I haven't been ready to shoot any of them. I think they're doing it on purpose... ;-) </p><div></div>

<p><strong>Waxing Gibbous Moon</strong></p>

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<p>A typical fall scene in the Ontario back country. <br>

Every autumn I pack a sleeping bag, some dog food and a canoe and Elwood and I go for a road-trip. This year wasn't exactly a bumper-crop for photographs but we got a few. Outside of landscapes I got two shots of a wolf walking down the highway with my Blackberry (I had the Blackberry).<br>

This one was with my new AF-S 85mm f/1.8 on a D800E.</p><div></div>

<p>Still the odd Red Admiral (<em>Vanessa atalanta</em>) around when the sun shines:</p><div></div>

<p>Wild bergamot from a few months ago. <br>

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<p>Gordon, what an amazing salamander portrait! Fall colors have come along nicely here in some parts of New England. But for some reason the nice maples outside my office building seem to be going from green straight to shedding this year, alas.</p>

<p>Anyway, this is from August. I was stopping by my dad's place to take him out for lunch, noticed this hurt cicada on the sidewalk and got a few shots with the Fujifilm XF1 I had with me. As I was entering the building I heard someone exclaim, "Eww! What's that?" Followed by her companion confidently asserting, "That's the biggest fly I've ever seen."</p><div></div>

<p align="center">Shot this, this morning...I was outside testing one of my lenses and I saw him land on this branch across the way...so I shot him! :)</p>

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<p align="center">Nikon D7000, 400mm, ISO 320, 1/2000, f/6.3 - cropped image....</p>

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<p>Siegfried - Yep, image taken through a microscope.</p>