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SEPTEMBER
Harvest Moon (Colonial American)
Chrysanthemum Moon (Chinese)
Nut Moon (Cherokee)
Mulberry Moon (Choctaw)
Moon When Calves Grow Hair (Dakota Sioux)
Singing Moon (Celtic)
Barley Moon (English Medieval)
Harvest Moon (Neo Pagan)
Corn Moon (Farmer's Almanac)
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We hiked up to the Big Pinnacle, not a great distance up from Massie Gap, but plenty steep for a couple of oldtimers.
I couldn't resist playing around a bit with the ice photos and this was my black and white effort. I lost the first version when Photoshop failed somehow, and I couldn't exactly remember what I had done. This is melting ice across a very small stream.
There is a small open area near the Jackson Ferry bridge that I often see people fishing from. It gives a really nice view of some old buildings across the river, as well as a nice open sky to view the stars.
I picked T. angustipennis instead of T. sinensis because that's what I picked for a different specimen in the same area...
According to wikipedia, angustipennis is a subspecies of Tenodera aridifolia, but BugGuide doesn't agree. (BugGuide is usually up-to-date on this stuff...)
More info: I really can't find much, other than the links above...
Location: along the Appalachian Trail, Troutville, Virginia
Equipment:
* Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i
* Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
* Flash: Canon 430EX II with custom reflector/diffusor
Taken a few weeks ago--just got the film developed--compare to an earlier shot taken from outside, posted here.
Nikon N75
Nikon AF Nikkor 50/1.8 lens
Kodak Gold ISO 200 film
f8 - 1/60
Photo from the summer- Bear and Meesie head down the steep hill to the goat farm here in the Heart of the Appalachian Mountains
via TitleFx
I don't really think about grasses flowering, but obviously they need some type of flower-like structure for pollination prior to producing the seeds...
The hanging yellow bits are the anthers. The feathery white bits are the stigma.
Location: my yard, Troutville, Virgina
An EXPLOSION of bristles!
AKA: Yellow woolybear
Synonym(s): Spilosoma virginica, Diacrisia virginica, Spilosoma congrua, Bombyx virginica
More info: BugGuide
Location: along the Appalachian Trail, Troutville, Virginia
Equipment:
* Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i
* Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
* Flash: Canon 430EX II with custom reflector/diffusor
I tried out the Nikon 28-300 VR last week and pretty much loved it. It is nice and sharp at basically all focal lengths and apertures.
I think the thing I noticed the most when shooting with it is that I took A TON of photos! It was so easy to shoot a wide scene and then zoom way in to shoot a nesting robin(err whatever).
It's a bit heavy, but I really think it'll make a great hiking lens.
I've got Tamron's 28-300 on the way to shoot with for a few days, if it can keep up it'll for sure be the one I get. But after shooting the Nikon, the Tamron has BIG shoes to fill!
A leaf photographed with the sun behind it at Pandapas Pond in Jefferson National Forest near Blacksburg, Virginia.
They were clearly getting agitated by my camera's proximity, so no extreme closeup this time...
AKA: Guinea wasp, Common paper wasp
Synonym(s): Polistes coahuilae, Polistes durangoensis
More info: BugGuide, wikipedia
Location: my yard, Troutville, Virginia
Equipment:
* Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i
* Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
* Flash: Canon 430EX II on a Lucas Macro Flash Bracket
The Miller's cabin by Smithfield Plantation House. A friend's grandfather was born in this cabin.
Thanks to Skeletalmess/Shadowhouse Creations for the texture.
an added bonus for getting up early to help with the gardening. such a strange looking insect... one wonders how this is the result of evolutionary progress. sticky feet must help :P
Thanks to Bill D. for identifying the mantis!
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APRIL
Planter's Moon (Colonial American)
Peony Moon (Chinese)
Flower Moon (Cherokee)
Wildcat Moon (Choctaw)
Moon When Geese Return in Scattered Formation (Dakota Sioux)
Growing Moon (Celtic)
Seed Moon (English Medieval)
Awakening Moon (Neo Pagan)
Pink Moon (Farmer's Almanac)
This photo was taken in Roberts Cove in Grayson Co. VA. This is the homestead of Archie Roberts and family. Archie Roberts was born in 1906 and died 1992. The old home is empty now.
I lay down to take this shot and apparently lay directly on some pokeweed berries, staining my shirt purple. Then I kneeled in the same spot, staining my knee reddish-purple (looking like I cut myself seriously...)
AKA Yellow garden spider, Writing spider, Corn spider, Black and yellow garden spider, Black and yellow argiope, Golden garden spider, Golden writing spider, Yellow garden orbweaver
Synonym(s): Nephila vestita, Epeira aurantia, Epeira cophinaria, Epeira ambitoria, Epeira riparia, Epeira sutrix, Argiope riparia, Argiope personata, Argiope cophinaria, Argiope godmani, Miranda cophinaria
More info: wikipedia
Location: my yard, Troutville, Virginia
Equipment:
* Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i
* Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM
* Flash: Canon 430EX II on a Lucas Macro Flash Bracket