Tonight we have a gorgeous conjunction of these two shiny objects. Personally, I prefer the pics with the dim, blue canvas as I think it really makes the celestial bodies pop!
#Jupiter #Moon #conjunction #astronomy #LesleyPhoto #myphoto #mywork #photography
By special request, I bring you new pictures of #Piper and #Dillon, the best kitty #cats in the world.
The first photo is Piper. The second photo is Dillon. And the third picture is the two of them scrunched into Dillon's bed (made for one). This is the first and only time I have seen them both in this bed at the same time.
Paging @Jay Bryant, who requested these pics in response to my request for pics of his new cats.
It's here! It's finally here! I'm a published photographer!!
In November of 2020, I was contacted by a publisher in the UK asking for permission to use one of my photos in a poetry book they were going to publish (they'd found it on my Flickr site). I agreed and they promised to send me a book once it had been printed. Sadly, COVID caused all kinds of delays, but they kept in touch with me and promised the book would be coming. Eventually.
Well, it has now arrived, much to my delight. Pretty exciting!
#photography #greenlacewing #insects #mywork #myphoto #Lesleyphoto
This summer, my Rose of Sharon bush produced the most blooms I've ever seen, and that's an 18-year-old bush! One of the side benefits of having so many blooms is that it was a magnet for bees of all shapes and sizes, as well as hoverflies, sweat bees, and ants. Every bee was absolutely coated in the pollen from the anther of the flower. I'd watch them fly from bloom to bloom, rolling around in the pollen before flying off to the next flower. Sometimes they would land on a petal or a leaf and rub their legs together or use their legs to clear the pollen from their antennae and eyes. Photographing them was like shootin' fish in a barrel. No shortage of opportunity. I spent quite a few days out there, snapping as many photos as I could. Here's one of my favs.
EarthSky.org encourages readers to submit photos. I sent this one and they published it. :) Mind you, I think they publish everyone's. 😂
#photography #Lesleyphoto #macro #ant #hibiscus #pollen #EarthSky
This is pretty neat photo (IMHO, of course). The purple petals of the cornflower look like long, spindly fingers holding up the flower bud and bee.
Taken at the Arboretum in Guelph.
#myphoto #mywork #photography #macro #bee #cornflower #bud #Lesleyphoto
