As I learn to take better portraits photos, I've started reviewing old work. Came across this pic of a jumping spider who posed for me last January. I've also ordered new lights and rearranged my home studio to get better portraits of humans. #macro #photography #macrophotography #wildlife #spider

Okay, I warned you yesterday but SPIDER POST SPIDER POST SPIDER POST. Look. Spiders are great! They're our friends. They do good work out there and in our houses. I love spiders and how can you not love THIS spider, who is both a work of art *and* wildly successful at this game of hide-and-seek?

A Blackburnian Warbler shines like a flame in the dim conifer forest. #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Eastern #chipmunk - Tamias striatus (Shot near Cincinnati 7-9-25) 🦊🐿️ #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #mammal #rodent #squirrel

I went on my first bull trout redd survey of the year today. Saw some absolutely incredible fish! One of the biggest specimens I've ever seen, and it was close enough to touch (I was invisibly filming from the other side of a root wad). 🐟

Spooky season seems like a good time to learn about spiders and their relatives

It’s #toadallytuesday American #toad - Anaxyrus americanus (Shot near Cincinnati 9-16-25) 🐸 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #herps #amphibian #frog

#turtletuesday The #turtles at the #nature center have become accustomed to getting fed by guests Pond slider - Trachemys scripta (Shot near Cincinnati 9-16-25) 🐢 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #animal #herps #reptile #turtle

Handsome Squirrel of the Day for September 23, 2025 #sqrlpix

Bee eaters were some of the more colorful birds we saw in the Okavango Delta. This one was sitting on the branch of a small tree and we passed fairly close by. #photography #wildlife #birds flic.kr/p/2rv6pd6

#macromonday Juvenile queen #snake - Regina septemvittata (Shot near Cincinnati 9-18-25) 🐍 #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #herps #reptile #herping

Photo feels a bit like autumn to me, I suppose. 🍂😁 #MacroMonday #photography #bees #bloomscrolling #flowers

#MacroMonday #MagentaMonday #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Happy first day of autumn! 🍂 #spiders #macromonday #pnw #garden #photography #eastcoastkin

Here's to the little things and the sharing of pleasures! 📷 ❤️🌿 Happy Monday everyone, wishing you all a good new week ahead 🕊️ #Photography #MacroMonday #BugSky #Invert #Insects #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin

#macromonday Harnessed tiger #moth - Apantesis phalerata (Shot on my porch 9-18-25) 🪲🪳🦋 #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #urbanwildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #insect #bugsky #ento #bug

Twelve-year-old gorilla Gladys is a mom! A healthy baby boy was born on Saturday, September 20, at 8:32 a.m. Mom and baby are doing well. This is Gladys’ first baby and the 51st gorilla born at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.

Happy Sunday Red #panda - Ailurus fulgens (Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 9-2-25) 🦊🐼🦝 #photography #animal #mammal #zoo #cincyzoopic

Happy Saturday Indigo #snake - Drymarchon corais (Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 9-2-25) 🐍 #photography #animal #herps #zoo #cincyzoopic

A male belted kingfisher #birds #kingfishers

A Red-Spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis astyanax), sipping moisture from the sidewalk as I watered the front yard plants. No rain here in over a month now; everyone’s thirsty. 🌿 #leps #inverts #butterflies

#NewSpecies! New true frog from #china just jumped in: Nidirana cangshanensis Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/E74687AB-... Publication: doi.org/10.37828/em.... #EcologicaMontanegrina #NidiranaCangshanensis #FAIRdata #OA #ecology #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herps #frogfriday #frogs

Happy #frogfriday American #bullfrog - Lithobates catesbeianus (Shot near Cincinnati 9-16-25) 🐸 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #herps #amphibian #frog

Portrait of a human bot fly. Belize. Friend? Maybe not. But cuter as an adult, I'd say.

After seeing gorgeous hawk photos today I've gotten lost in 3 months of photos looking for the Red-tailed Hawk from early August. It swooped past my bird feeders and landed in a distant tree with much wing flapping while I was on the phone. I kept talking and took so many photos. 🪶

#InsectThursday from 19th September last year and a very good model in the firm of a Southern hawker #dragonfly. Look at those eyes! 😍 @britishdragonflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #ThursdayThrowback

Bumblebee enjoying some Mountain Mint in Norfolk, Massachusetts 🐝💚 #bees #insects #pollinators #InsectThursday #bugsky #photography #OM-1 #OM60mmMacro #nature #MassAudubon

#InsectThursday! This is a bee fly on a dandelion in my front yard #macro #macrophotography #Diptera

#InsectThursday #FlowerReport: A tiny sweat bee on the yellow center of a flower in San Jose, California yesterday afternoon. The center is about the diameter of a nickel.

We saw this absolutely massive spider on one of our hikes. I think it is a golden silk orb weaver but I'm not 100% sure. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #InsectThursday #photography #spiders #insects

#insectthursday This male blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) looks like he’s been through some stuff (Shot near Cincinnati 7-25-25) 🪳🪲🐉🪰 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #insect #dragonfly #skimmer #ento #bugsky #bug

A charming little black widow hanging outside of the basement window 🕷️ #Spiders #Hourglass #BlackWidow #Arachnids #Photography #Nature

OTD in 2016 - garden spider

sorting through some shots of backyard birds. we had a family of nuthatches in the yard that year. #photography #birdphotography #olympus #garden #nature #birds #nuthatch

A nuthatch demonstrating their upside-down stance which is thought to help them find crevices that other birds miss. #birds #nuthatch #wildlife #nature #photography #protectnature #flyday #EastCoastKin

White-breasted #nuthatch - Sitta carolinensis (Shot near Cincinnati 9-16-25) 🐦 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #bird #songbird

Common water #snake - Nerodia sipedon (Shot near Cincinnati 7-24-25) 🐍 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #herps #reptile

American goldfinches - Spinus tristis (Shot near Cincinnati 8-21-25) 🐤🐦 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #bird #finch

#MacroMonday #macro #macrophotography #photography #EastCoastKin #bee #bokeh #weebee All fur coat and no knickers😂

#MacroMonday A big bumble bee for today’s #macro Monday. #bee #insects #pollen #EastCoastKin #photography

Where’s Robyn? #MacroMonday #MinimalMonday

#WeevilTime 🖤 They're just little guys who love sugar a lot

#macromonday It’s #weeviltime Flower #weevil - Odontocorynus sp. (Shot near Cincinnati 8-26-25) 🪲🪳 #photography #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #invertebrate #insect #beetle #ento #bugsky #bug

Red Squirrels are the high energy quasars of the northern forest. They are seen and heard more than any other living thing - but usually they are scolding and unwelcoming. But every now and then, they let down their guard and show us their tender side. #mammals

A Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly. #BlueskyMonday #insects #butterfly #nature #EastCoastKin

This is the only #birdbutt I could find, but it is a nice butt 🥰 🪶 #BirdofTheDay #birds #MallardMonday #ColorADay #photography #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersofBluesky #onlybeautifulthings #photohour #ArtYear #nature #thelittlethings #EastCoastKin

Just another #MallardMonday #bird #wildlife #nature #photography #duck Regimen fascisticum delendum est!

Mondays suck, so here’s a #DuckOfTheDay to help you through it. #MallardMonday

#mallardmonday Female #mallard - Anas platyrhynchos (Shot near Cincinnati 8-31-25) 🦆🐦 #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #animal #bird #duck