Richard’s Notes

The Big Picture: Horses at work and at play.
A wonderful collection of images of horses in all corners of the world.

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The Big Picture has a fantastic collection of animal images: World Animal Day.
Great variety, the baby white rhino toward the end is my current fav. What an expression.

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Naturescapes.net is a resource and a community of landscape and animal photographers, articles, discussion, workshops, and a store. Looks like a friendly place to ask questions about all things nature photography.
[via Dale Allyn]

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New York City. The guy on the right is puffed up, strutting around, doing his dance and the chick on the left is going "uh, whatever."
He eventually gave up on her and tried another female. No luck there either. In the end he was all puffed up strutting around with not a female in sight.
Need [...]

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My flickr contact Lenny nails a blue dasher dragonfly with his big lens and extender. An absolutely amazing image, congratulations Lenny.

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Washington, Connecticut, Macricostas Preserve. This little flower is about one half in across (this is not a daisy) and after going to all the trouble to set up the tripod and get things lined up, an intruder dropped in. I figured he’d leave soon enough but he stayed for twenty minutes so I gave up, [...]

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Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. I found a clump of yellow daisies in the herb garden and there were a few bees working them. This is another bee that seems to be more successful in collecting pollen, or, is really well hung, or both.

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Pasadena, California. The Huntington Garden. I found a clump of yellow daisies in the herb garden and there were a few bees working them. This bee stomped around on the stamen of this flower, hoping to pick up some stamen.

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Slate has a nice collection of Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt’s great photographs of dogs: Son of Bitch.

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David Attenborough narrates a sexual encounter between two leopard slugs. Quite amazing and of course Attenborough’s narration makes it all the better.
[via kottke.org]

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Martin Amm has a a great shot of a bug covered in dew drops.
Wow, that’s quite a shot. Incredible actually.
[via kottke.org]

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Warren, Connecticut. We were watching the NewsHour and I kept hearing this noise from the backyard but didn’t pay it much attention as it was raining out and the rain makes noises on gutters and things around here.
Then I stood up and this is what I saw, exactly this view at this scale. I yelled [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. My friend Gary and I got up very early to catch the morning light at the Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust which is right down the road from my house. After hiking around we set up in a small clearing near a bend in Bee Brook to do macro and [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. This old dude sat in this one place for about two hours. He rotated a bit as he attempted to catch dragonflies as they flew by but he never swam or hopped away. When he turned towards Gary and I we got a kick out of how wide his mouth was and every [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. Our pond is less pond and more mud pit these days which is heaven for the frogs and other animals living in it. This little dude sat like this for fifteen minutes until a small dragonfly got too close, then his long tongue shot out and he caught and ate it. I felt [...]

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Washington, Connecticut. Hobbs is a four year old bulldog that belongs to the head of the athletic department at my wife’s school. Any time I go anywhere near the athletic office I always stop in to see Hobbs, he loves to play and he has a fantastic personality. In other words, he’s a character.
This day [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. The most beautiful great blue heron I’ve ever seen landed on our pond today. He had a black pony tail and a "beard" of feathers in front the likes of which I’ve not seen in herons that land on our pond and he was big as herons go. He circled the pond on [...]

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Warren, Connecticut. A few days ago, early in the morning, while walking with coffee in one hand and this computer in the other, I tripped over a box and went flying. You can read the gory details here if you like.
I back up my computer every day with a great product called SuperDuper! and I [...]

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An incredible video clip of David Attenborough talking about the lyrebird.
Camera shutter! Chainsaw. Gad.
Source: David Darling

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Washington, Connecticut. A friend and I were walking across a large field of grass, Queen Anne’s lace, milkweed, and other assorted plant life when he spotted this unusual dragonfly. I had an incredibly hard time seeing him and once I did I had to put down my bag, set up the tripod and get the [...]

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