• insects,  Photography

    Images that move us…

    Daddy Longlegs

    Who needs an expensive DSLR camera, three lens, eight camera bags, three filters, and a carbon tripod? 🙂 Why not pull the cell phone out of our pocket, take the photo, tweak it a bit in the iphone PS app, upload it to your blog and viola, the days post is done.

    Yes, I’ve done that because I’m a photographer and when a scene presents itself we need to take the photo. This may work in a pinch but there is something about the process involved in working a scene that the above scenario falls short. I’m only talking for myself but I need the experience of looking through the viewfinder, envisioning, composing, waiting and then pressing the shutter. A photographer takes photos because they have to, just as writers write. We work through our process to create the images that move us.

  • insects,  Plants

    Group Meeting

    Daddy Longlegs

    This is another from my Sunday morning outing in Blendon Woods Park. In many backyards the most conspicuous “spider” isn’t a spider at all, but rather something related to the spiders, as are scorpions, ticks, mites, centipedes and millipedes.I believe these Daddy-longlegs are really called the Harvestman. There are, amazingly over 6,400 species of these harvestman. Many species are omnivorous, eating primarily small insects and all kinds of plant material and fungi; some are scavengers, feeding upon dead organisms, bird dung and other fecal material. Yuck!