Photography

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Shot on September 2, 2012

At carver reserve in Victoria, MN

A dragon was spotted in MN on September 2, 2012, here’s the proof.

Taken at carver reserve in Victoria, MN.

Do you see it?

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Mystery Art

Fairies?

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On Sept 30th, Lebanon Hills Park

Do click on the photo for the full size, and you’ll get a much better view of the Egret

At Murphy Hanrehan

Path, Sky, Calming

Many Have worshiped
One of my favorite celestial objects, the sun.
Photos taken in Savage, MN on 09/23/2012
Make sure to click on the photos for the full-size. Then spend some time exploring the colors of these intense sun rays, look at the clouds, and the areas around the sun for many colorful pieces of natural art curtsey the sun and water vapor.
Why is the sky not blue?  because this is a photo of the sun, not the sky.

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The FULL moon tonight, 9/30/2012, taken with my telescope and DSLR camera at 2AM in Minnesota, the sky is crystal clear.

Enjoy (click the photos to see full size).

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This was my first attempt to take photos with my new telescope and DSLR camera. I’m not using an adapter, but didn’t need one.

This is a photo using the camera alone with my telephoto lens at maximum zoom:
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Notice a difference?  The telescope photos are like mirror images, the telescope images need to be flipped to match what your eyes see.

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Last Tuesday before heading out to work I noticed many white worms all over the lid of the refuse container (i.e. trash bin). There was plenty of dew on the car and the trash bin lid was also pretty wet, however the photos don’t clearly show the amount of dew present on the lid.

These little worms were knee deep in dew.

Do you see the pairs? why are they next to each other like that?
These aren’t the usual kind of worms I”m used to seeing, will these turn to butterflies or some other flying insect?

If you click on a photo to enlarge it you will notice the  water surrounding the worms.

Later on that day, 1/3rd the worms were “dead by drying” in the sun light, the rest were gone, somewhere. Maybe birds ate them, maybe they went back into the trash bin to eat trash, I donno.

Well, I think they looked pretty and cute, a bit unusual for a garden worm.. I thought they looked interesting / cool. You might agree.

If you thought these worms were anything but gross, I hope this next piece of info doesn’t change your mind: These are maggots.

They must have come out of the trash bin some how, they are the larva of flies (house flies, blow-flies, and cheese flies). In this case I believe these are from blow-flies.

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Let the sun shine

through

for the green buds

to

grow

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March 24, 2012
At Lebanon Hills Regional Park, Eagan, MN Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera

Glowing Amber?  Inner Sun? Golden Gem Stone, the Philosopher’s Stone?

Molten Glass? Frozen Water? A Geological Formation?

Hmm, what is this?

Here’s a close-up

Ok, I’ll show you.

It’s resin from a tree, here’s the branch

This inner glow, or “inner fire” here is nothing but the sun light shining on this substance

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Nature painting itself shadows on a rock

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March 24, 2012
At Lebanon Hills Regional Park, Eagan, MN Taken with a Canon Rebel XSi 12.2 MP D-SLR Camera