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A Marvel, and, Why?

05 Thursday Nov 2026

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arthropod, bug, canon 65mm f2.8 1 - 5x macro lens, chrysanthemum lace bug, fine detail, insect, macro lens, macro photography, order hemiptera, tiny, tiny insect

Please take a close look at this chrysanthemum lace bug. With the unaided eye, it looks like a speck of something that sluffed off a plant, sitting on the leaf. If you take a 5x magnification lens and finally manage to get a sharp picture of it (or at least acceptably so), it’s amazing what you see. Notice the intricate, beautiful details in this almost microscopic insect. Why?

I leave that to you.

A Book is Coming

05 Thursday Nov 2026

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I hope to be soon publishing a book on Amazon in hardback and paperback plus Kindle formats. It will be about 50 photos of dragonflies and damselflies.

There will be an announcement of its availability here when the availability becomes available.

The title will be, God’s Flying Jewels.

It will even include a poem I wrote on the last page.

This was cheaper than paying the publisher $5,900 for a pre-launch campaign, now, wasn’t it?

A Long Absence

08 Tuesday Aug 2023

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birds, nature, nature photography, nikon digital images, raccoon, wildlife

It’s been years. I’ve been using large film cameras and a darkroom but now I’m back to digital and nature photography. The limited time I now have has made this seem like a necessary step to keep me involved in photography.

Carolina Wren with Pupa

White-eyed Vireo

Brown-winged Swallows

Raccoon with Crayfish

Male Painted Bunting

Into the Sun

02 Tuesday May 2017

Posted by castl23 in "photography", candids, Digital Photography, Uncategorized

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girl running, group of people, iphone photo, iphonography, park, people, people in park, people walking, shadows, silhouette, strong contrast, sun, sun in photo

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Straight from the iPhone to you via the iMac. Not edited anywhere at all. Amazing things these device cameras.

Another Day in the Natural World

02 Tuesday May 2017

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arachnid, beetle, blur, bokeh, cactus, close up, close up photography, crab spider, crab spider feeding, cucumber beetle, flowers, hairstreak, hairstreak butterfly, insects, macro, macro photography, miikweed, milkweed bug, nature, nature in texas, nature photography, nikon, nikon digital, prickly pear, prickly pear blooms, prickly pear cactus, spider, spider feeding, succulents, wildflower, wine cup, wine cup mallow

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It altogether amazes me that people can walk right past things like this and be totally consumed by whatever device they have in hand to keep them from interacting intimately with the immediate other world around them, be it their companion walking beside them, the child in a stroller, or of sights like these flowers. Maybe the general, developing impression that there is no intelligent designer who sits outside of creation contributes to the lack of wonder at the intricacy that was designed into each of these wonders. They’re taken for granted, and the tremendous leap of faith is launched that requires believing that all this was the result of random, impersonal causes.

On the more mundane side, Nikon D7100 with 36 – 72 Series E Nikon lens reversed onto the camera body. Some were taken with 26mm extension tube, some without.

Mating Damselflies, or Get a Grip, Mate!

30 Sunday Apr 2017

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close up photography, damselflies, damselflies mating, insect order odonata, insect procreation, insect recreation, insect reproduction, insects, nature, nature photography, nikon 200 f4 macro lens mf, nikon d7100, odonata, reproduction

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Always exciting anything that promises to add more bugs to the world. Nikon D7100 and just regular old 200mm f4 manual focus Micro Nikkor.

Christy at the Easel

30 Sunday Apr 2017

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art, art paint brush, artist, artistic blur, blur, intentional blur, nikon 36 - 72 series e lens, nikon 36 - 72 series e lens reversed, nikon d800, oil painting, painting, portrait, reversed lens

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Nikon D800 with 36 – 72 Series E lens reversed and at 72mm. Blur effect is all in-camera. Some vibrance added and shadows opened in post capture.

Not Sure Where it Is

29 Saturday Apr 2017

Posted by castl23 in old buildings, Small Town, Travel, Uncategorized

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bank, delapidated, delapidated bank building, delapidation, old building, west texas

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I just like the textures, especially around the door. The skim lighting worked well here.

A Multi-Generation Family Portrait

28 Friday Apr 2017

Posted by castl23 in Film Cameras, film photography, hasselblad digital, still life, Uncategorized

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35mm, 35mm cameras, analog, analog photography, camera bodies, cameras, film photography, nikon, nikon f, nikon f cameras, nikon f photomic, nikon f2a, nikon f2as, nikon f3 hp, nikon f4, nikon f5, nikon f6, nikon film cameras, nikon slr

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Nothing outstanding, just something I’ve had in mind to do for a while and finally got bored enough to do it. I’ve been collecting Nikon film SLR cameras off that auction site. These represent what I think is an unbroken chain from the F, front center, of around 1957, to the F6, top center, from around 2004 to the present. Yes, Nikon does still produce two film cameras, the FM10 and the F6.

I have other Nikons not in the line of royalty here:  EM, FM, FM2/T, FM3A, FE, FE2, FA, F100 and a black F2A.

Ironically, the camera used for this portrait was a Hasselblad H5-D 50 with the 50 – 110 zoom used at 110mm. A monolight was on the right about subject level with a silver umbrella reflecting the bare bulb. A large, white reflector did a little fill on the left.

I do use the cameras! They are all quite operational and most in near mint condition. I hope my son will enjoy his inheritance someday…and have the space! Or, maybe they’ll appreciate in value and he can sell them back to where they were found.

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Calm and Frenzy

27 Thursday Apr 2017

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atlantic ocean, birds, galveston, galveston island, galveston texas, motion, motion blur, nature, ocean, salt water, sand, seagulls, seashore, water, waves, wildlife

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Shot at Galveston Island in April 2016. Slow shutter used. Varying degrees of motion depicted.

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