In Pedernales for wine tasting today, the smell of a quite good Tempranillo seemed to attract a number of visitors. I think this might be Polistes carolina? Shot with flash, manual focus, and about 1/200 shutter though in retrospect I could have easily brought the ISO to 200 and used a shorter exposure.
My apartment is home to several Pantropical jumping spiders (Plexippus paykulli). I think these guys are adorable, but the new tenant might disagree, so I’m ushering them outside before I move out. After catching this one in a glass, I went to get my camera, and found an ant (Solenopsis invicta?) crawling around in my camera bag, so I threw …
I came across these ants just outside my apartment, so I ran off and grabbed my camera bag. These shots are coming from a Nikon D3200, three of them with a 55mm kit lens + a cheap macro screw-on attachment, and the fourth with a 200mm telephoto and the same cheap macro. The telephoto shots came out quite cloudy — …