pause in flight

Do I ever take pictures of anything other than insects and plants?  Not often...the truth of the matter is, unimaginative as I am, I would rather do the finding and let Nature do the hard work of composing a photograph.  And besides, could anything I came up with be more beautiful than the shadow of a dragonfly's wing on a reed?

bloodworm

Bait from a weekend in Shady Side, MD.  Bloodworms, well, bleed (excessively).  The weird nodule on the left end is its proboscis, or retractable mouthpart; you can see the four-pointed area that contains its four hollow teeth (that inject poison!).  I wish I had gotten a better photo of the proboscis, but the worm had already retracted it after I took this one.

teej

Like most UVa students, I have a half-joking, half-serious reverence for Thomas Jefferson, the founder of our school.  This picture was taken on graduation morning, as my last look at TJ as an undergrad.

eye of newt

Eye of ornamental dragon, actually, but newts and dragons are both vaguely lizardlike, right?