Checkerspot Anonymity

These are checkerspot butterflies for sure. But when I originally posted the possibility of “Bay” checkerspot on the first photo (taken at Sibley), an astute commenter at Flickr corrected my ID: “Unfortunately that is not a Bay checkerspot butterfly.” Simple as that. Got it. Endangered, not likely.
If it had been a Bay checkerspot, it would [...]

Posted Under: Bay Area, Butterflies, California, East Bay, Insects
This post was written by ingrid on May 21, 2009 Comments (0)

Dragonfly or Damselfly? A Few Clues

In this melee of global strife and catastrophe, there’s at least one thing you can know for sure: is it a dragonfly or a damselfly? There are a lot of folks losing sleep over the answer, I know.
I blame the awesome macro of my telephoto lens for this post. I went to UC Berkeley Botanical [...]

Posted Under: East Bay
This post was written by ingrid on May 15, 2009 Comments (0)

Spring in Micro (and Macro)

My lens life felt banal this week, so I moved in and went macro. Super macro. I call it my “bug lens” but it’s actually a set of two lenses which go by the names of Raynox DCR-150 and Raynox DCR-250. They’re $40 gifts from macro heaven that snap on to the lens of my [...]

Posted Under: Photography
This post was written by ingrid on April 27, 2009 Comments (1)