bodhi tree swaying

Another of the pictures I took yesterday of a dead dragonfly’s wing.

I like this one too. I cropped it so you can see more of the detail.

One day recently Maia wanted to play in the car, where she likes to twiddle knobs and pull levels, but I decided it would be more enriching to go for a walk in the woods. It turned out to be a good call, and she had a great time even though she was still getting over a cold.

This was the view from my rear porch a few weeks back on one misty morning.

This one’s a beetle I shot at the same church I mentioned in the last Wordless Wednesday post. He was a handsome fellow.

You can click on the image to see a full-size shot.

This was taken on a Konica-Minolta DiMage Z3, which had a fantastic zoom and macro capacity, and which I was sorry to lose when my car got flooded a few weeks after this picture was taken.

For this contribution to Wordless Wednesday I’ve chosen a picture of a humpback whale that I took a couple of years ago off the coast or Rye, New Hampshire. It was a rough day and the boat was being tossed around so much that it was hard to hold a camera straight. It also doesn’t help that the whales don’t give any warning of where they’re going to resurface, and so you have to wait for them to appear, point, focus, and shoot in double-quick time while your body is crashing against the hull of the boat.

The white pach you see under water is a lateral fin. What looks like blurring over the body is actually spray from the blowhole. I’d suggest viewing the large image to get a better impression.

Click on the image for a larger version.

This blog doesn’t lend itself well to wordless posts, so I’m having to write a short intro for the benefit of the (imageless) excerpt that appears on the home page. The picture is of a Canada goose and four goslings, taken May 26, 2007 at Pawtuckaway State Park in southern New Hampshire.

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