On Photographs

I am very excited, because today I submitted my very first photo to bugguide.net ( http://bugguide.net/node/view/908314 ) Link!  Although I enjoy taking insect photos, I don't normally get ones that are in focus enough or show enough of the characters to bother uploading. In going though some old photos though, I found multiple pictures of an individual, and it actually showed a lot of the parts I know as beetle characters. I love that website, and I am excited to contribute a little to it. Hopefully I will be able to contribute more, and maybe help identify things in the future.

On a related note, I'm super excited that I figured out how to crop photos without using paint. It was a good morning for learning!

I will end with a couple photos that I liked, but don't consider valuable to upload onto bugguide.

A Syrphid fly of some sort, getting nectar from a yellow coneflower. Not many characters are visible, but it's a good photo to exhibit how the family looks a lot like bees!

You can see a couple flies getting nectar in this photo. I'm still on the fence about cropping and submitting this one. 

Japanese beetles are so pretty. They are identifiable in this photo, but bugguide already has quite a few photos of these. 

You can see, if you squint, a really pretty blue/green damselfly in this photo. There aren't many characters visible though.

Here, I'll zoom in for you. 

((All photos copyright Caitlin Race 2013))