There are so many interesting things to photograph and some of them are the smallest things around... bugs. I began to shoot some of the more interesting looking six and eight legged creatures around my home because my son truly finds them fascinating. My daughter could care less and would prefer not to encounter any of them. Living so close to a forest, we get an interesting mixture of "buggy" life. Bugs that I have never seen before, which I attribute to living the city when I was a young girl. In a previous blog post, I showed the lovely Woolly Bear Caterpillar that I was fortunate to shoot. Here you will see two lovely and creepy creatures. One is a dragonfly and what I loved about the shot that I got was all of the detail that you can see in its wing. The shot came out just perfect, this particular dragonfly was smitten with the garden in my front yard and you could find it flying about on a daily basis as it made its rounds around the neighborhood. I am not aware of what species it is, but if you can identify it than let me know!
"Dragonfly Perch" (c) 2011
The second image is a yellow and black spider known as the Yellow and Black Argiope or more commonly garden spider, corn spider, or writing spider. All I can truly tell you about this one is that it scared the living daylights out of me, was not expecting to see this guy hanging out when I went to water my garden. After my heart came back in my chest and was beating at a normal rate, I grabbed my camera and captured a shot. My curiosity got the best of me and I had to document it, but if you see the name of the piece than you can still get an understanding of how I truly felt about it!
"Arachnophobia" (c) 2011
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