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What are these guys?

Ants, Bees, and Beetles, oh my!

A stop at the Insectarium was in order after the Biodome.  Tysen had a field day taking photos of all the bugs!

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Beetle jewelry anyone?

Petite pearlescent dragonfly (not scientific name)

Ants on a log, for real!

They make some honey just for [...]

Macro Mania Photoday

Today was photoday.  I had wanted to take a few specific shots, but I ended up skipping those and focusing on using my new-ish macro lens.  I was pleased with the results.  More photos are available on the Official Perszyk.com Gallery.  I made many of these into HD wallpapers, let me know if there is [...]

I Need to Get a Macro Lens

I would like to get a macro lens (as does Tysen). I love taking pictures of insects (since I don’t have any cute kids to take photographs of). My Sony point-and-shoot does a nice job, as evidenced here, but a macro for my Nikon would be better. These dragonflies magically appeared one day and were [...]

Speaking of Bugs that Sting

I really feel bad for these bees, maybe it’s the sad accompanying music or the fact that the giant hornets can decapitate a bee in a single bite. I guess it’s just nature, but if this kind of attack were to be translated to human scale (or applied to humans versus, say, [...]