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  • A close up of a Spangled Skimmer sitting on a tan weed stock against a multi-shaded brown background.
    Spangled Skimmer Libellula cyanea.tif
  • A Common Whitetail Skimmer male perches on the top of a bent stock in a pond at the Pine Hollow Arboretum. His colloring shows well against a clear gray sky.
    Common Whitetailed Skimmer Male.tif
  • A Tropical Kingbird, a large tyrant flycatcher, sitting on a branch displaying his bright yellow chest in the Pantanal area of Brazil. His beak is shadowed on his chest offering an interesting detail to the photograph.
    Tropical Kingbird.tif
  • A macro photograph of the center of a dark pink hollyhock showing the star created as the petals fan out from the stem. The light green base and veins of the petals frame the star and the cream and pink stamen puntuates the center. Printing on metalliic paper is recommended.
    Hollyhock Star.tif
  • A beautiful white Nazca Booby standing on a rock ocean-side is stretching his neck, pointing his orange beak in the air, his mask apparent, and preparing to extend its dark-brown to black-tiped wings
    Nazca Booby Stretching 10x15 _2590.tif
  • A single red and yellow Heliconia Caribaea Jacquini (a false bird-of-paradise) on a green stem against a black background photographed in Thailand..
    Heliconia Caribaea Jacquini.tif
  • Sngle bright golden-orange, Bird of Paradise on a green stem standing out against a black background. Photographed in Thailand.
    Thai Bird of Paradise.tif
  • A single, fully-opened, lotus flower in shades of pink and burgandy with a lime green and yellow center photographed in Temple;s water garden, in Thailand.
    Lotus Pink Thailand.tif
  • A single Hyde Hall Clematis with its stark white pettals and burgundy-tipped stamen photographed in a garden in Upper New York State stands out on a pure black background.
    Clematis White Solo.tif
  • A close up Dorsal of Cream-striped Owls mating. The butterflys' multi-segmented eye, antennae and blue, cream and brown markings stand out against the digitally blurred background.
    Owl - Cream-striped - Mating.tif
  • A close up Dorsal of the Cream-strped Owl standing amongst leaf-looking cocoons waiting to dry in a Butterfly Garden in Costa Rica. The butterfly's multi-segmented eye, antennae and blue, cream and brown markings are clear on this newly hatched Owl.
    Owl - Cream-striped - Caligo teucer ...tif
  • A Giant Illoneus Owl with tattered hingwings hanging from a green leaf against a multi-green and red background. The lower edge of the forewings and the hindwngs glow irridecent blue.
    Owl - Illioneus Giant - Caligo Illio...tif
  • A close up Dorsal of the Cream-strped Owl resting on a turquoise mesh curtain in a Butterfly Garden in Costa Rica. The butterfly's multi-segmented eye, antennae and blue, cream and brown markings stand out against the background and the blue "owl eye" shows beautifully.
    Owl - Cream-striped - Caligo teucer ...tif
  • A mosaic-like reflection of a historic church and a blue, blue sky in the all glass building across the street.
    NYC - Reflection 1.tif
  • A beautiful and very large moth, this Atlas moth is resting on a metal mesh screen    displaying his wonderful shades of browns with black and white banding and clear "windows" in his wings.
    Cesar Atlas Moth - Attacus cesar.tif
  • A dragonfly perched on a green blade of pond flora against a multi-colored green background at the Pine Hollow Arboretum
    12-Spotted Skimmer Ventral.tif
  • Red Cracker butterfly sitting full-wing spred on a light-barked tree with garden in the background. Banding and markings very distictive, red bands very light.
    Red Cracker - Hamadryas amphinome 2.tif
  • A mult-colored, Brown Cracker sitting on and sipping from a fresh orange surrounded by other fruit set out for the butterflies.
    Cracker - Brown Dorsal.tif
  • A beautiful juvenile Galapagos Hawk perched in a tree intently watching. His gold and brown coloring is beautiful, as is the intensity in his eyes. What power!
    Galapagos Hawk Juvenile Solo 1.tif
  • Juvenile Swallow-tailed Gull with three Sally Lightfoot crabs on brown and grey lava rocks in the Galapaogs Islands. The bright red and gold Sally Lightfoot crabs stand out against the dark lave rocks and one of the crabs is peeking out from under a rock.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Juvenile Sallyli...tif
  • With its long wings spread out, a Blue-footed Booby flyes over a beautiful blue ocean in a light blue cloud-enhanced sky.
    Blue-footed Booby in Flight.tif
  • A blue-shaded, Tabular Iceberg glissening in the Antarctic sun sitting in the blue, blue sea. There are four "arches" have formed at sea-level forming intriguing caves.
    PB-Blue-Tabular-Iceberg.jpg
  • A gentle image of a Eastern Tiger Swallowtail sipping from a trumpet-shaped, red flower in a garden in North Carolina.
    Swallowtail - Eastern Tiger Female V...tif
  • A gorgeous, beautifully marked, multi-colored Danaid Mimic Eggfly sipping from a purple flower stands out against soft green leaves.
    Eggfly - Danaid Mimic Ventral.tif
  • A Cattleheart sitting on a green leaf with wings fully spread  showing off his beautiful markings, his probiscus curled and fuzzy body apparent.
    Cattleheart Trans-Andean Dorsal 5x7.tif
  • A Black-collared Hawk, balancing on the top of a post, spotted as we cruised through the labyrinth  of rivers in the Pantanal area of Brazil. The hawk has a white head, tinged with buff and a ciinnamon-rufous body that is paler on the chest enhanced by a black crescent on the upper breast.
    Black-collared Hawk.tif
  • A small, bright red-feathered, Vermillion Flycatcher perched on one of the branches of a leafless-bush against a pastel pink and green background.
    Vermillion Flycatcher 1.tif
  • A Galapagos Dove sits on the straw-covered ground on Espanola Island showing off its striking bright-blue rimmed eye, mahogany throat and multi-shaded wings above its red feet. Endemic to the Galapagos the dove  is fairly common in the semi-open habitat of the Island.
    Galapagos Dove Solo 1.tif
  • Two adult Galapagos Hawks perched on a large rock stand out in the leafless-brush on Espanola Island, in the Galapagos where they are endemic. Similar in size to the Red-tailed Hawk, the Galapaogs hawk is about 47-inches long with a wing span around 21-22 inches.
    Galapagos Hawks 1.tif
  • A single opium poppy with liight burgundy petals and dark burgandy interior and a bright green stigma and stamens. The poppy is in full bloom against a bed of of green leaves in a heritage garden.
    Poppy Burgundy - Opiium 1.tif
  • Close up of the pure white head and shoulders of a Nazca Booby, its black-masked, yellow eyes and long orangish-red beak against a blurred, multi-green and brown background.
    Nazca Booby Head.tif
  • A Nazca Booby is standing on a large, lava outcrop preening its beautiful white feathers in total concentration, oblivious of the ocean waves furiously crashing and spraying behind it.
    Nasca Booby Preening.tif
  • A close up of a Blue-footed Booby standng on a whitish rock on its right foot while scratching its neck with the bent, middle "finger and nail" of its left foot. The flexibility a Booby has with its feet, "fingers" and nails is interesting and apparent. Note that the bird has straw around its beak. .
    Bue-footed Booby Scratching 2.tif
  • A Blue-footed Booby standng on a whitish rock on its right foot while scratching the  back of its head with its left foot. The Booby has tilted its head almost upside down and twisted it so the back of its head is very apparent.
    Bue-footed Booby Scratching 1.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting along in its typical clumbsy way, checking out the surroundings. One foot is off the ground and in process of taking the next step.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting 2.tif
  • Close up of a female Blue-footed Booby preparing her nest in the red sands of Rabida Island by picking up a pebble with her beak in order to remove from her nesting site.
    Blue-footed Booby Preparing Nest 2.tif
  • Close up of a female Blue-footed Booby preparing her nest in the red sands of Rabida Island by picking up a piece of straw with her beak in order to remove from her nesting site.
    Blue-footed Booby Preparing Nest 1.tif
  • Male Blue-footed Booby, with his wings spread wide and head held high, is doing his best to court his fair lady and entice her into mating with him.
    Blue-footed Booby Courting Dance 1.tif
  • Mother, father and juvenile Swallow-tailed gulls nestled in the islands red, gold and green vegetation . A mating pair of Swallow-tail gulls frequently stay together from year to year. They feed their chick for about 90 days before it ventures to the sea.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Family 2.tif
  • In tandem, two Blue-footed Boobys with their very long wings make a sweep showing off their tail feahter against a light blue sky in preparation for landing on a Galapagos Island.
    Blue-footted Bobbys in Flight .tif
  • Immature Blue-footed Booby with a white chest, brown head and back feathers and brown feet standing on a rocky surface in the Galapagos Islands
    Blue-footed Booby Juvenile.tif
  • A male Julia Dryas sits on a vine showing its bright orange wings, white tinged hind wing, segmented eyes and orange-tipped antennae against a green background.
    Julia Dryas - Male Dorsal 1.tif
  • A blue, black and whte Common Eggfly sits on the edge of a white Phalaenopsis orchid  delicatlely decorated with water droplets.
    Eggfly - Commmon Male Dorsal on Orch...tif
  • A stunning Brown Clipper sits on a green and white leaf showing off its brown and gold wing, white markings and gold-tipped antennae.
    Clipper Brown R Dorsal 11x14.tif
  • A Blue Morpho Buterfly perches on a leaf with wings fully spread, showing off its bright blue coloring with its head and antennae erect.
    Blue Morpho Dorsal 4.tif
  • A Doris Longwing perched at the top of a bright red flower with suspended rain drops against a multi-colored green background. The ventral view shows the beauty and grace of this butterfly.
    Doris Longiwing Heliconius Doris - ...tif
  • A Blue Clipper butterfly - dorsal view - with color and markings showing against a bright red flower and a multi-shaded green background.
    Clipper - Blue Dorsal.tif
  • A lovely dorsal view of a female Back Swallowtail sipping from a pink Hydrangea.
    Swallowtail - Black Female Dorsal 1.tif
  • A Cattleheart calmly sitting on a green leaf with wings fully spread  showing off his beautiful markings, his probiscus curled and fuzzy body apparent.
    Cattleheart Trans-Andean Dorsal.tif
  • A Hyacinth Macaw, the largest flying parrot, sitting outside his nest in a big old tree in the Pantanal area of Brazil, displaying his bright blue back, wing and tail feathers beautifully. His head is turned in the typical, quizzical way parrots do.
    Hyacinth Macaw Nest.tif
  • A beautiful juvenile Galapagos Hawk perched in a tree intently watching. His gold and brown coloring is beautiful, as is the intensity in his eyes. What power!
    Galapagos Hawk Juvenile Solo 1.tif
  • A close up of three light green, closed lotus flowers grouped with folded exterior petals ready to be presented to dieties at a temple in Thailand, sprinkeled with water droplets after a rain.
    Temple Lotus.tif
  • Male Nazca Booby, with its orange-red beak wide open, vocalizes as it stands on the rocky, ocean shore of the South Plaza, Santa Cruz Island, in the Galapagos Islands.
    Nazca Booby Vocalizing.tif
  • Close up of a Nazca Booby standing on a rock, in two-thirds profile, showing off its puffy white chest, orangish beak and black masked face against a multi-green background.
    Nazca Booby Solo 2.tif
  • Blue-footed Boobys kissing by touching the tips of their beaks together against the straw-filled, red sands of Rabida Island.
    Blue-footed Boobys Kissing.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting along in its typical clumbsy way, on the red sands of Rabida Island. One foot is off the ground and in process of taking the next step.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting 3.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby just took over the parenting detail and is looking none too happy about it.
    Blue-footed Booby Parenting 3.tif
  • A Blue-footed Booby leaves the straw nest containing two eggs, with straw still wrapped around its beak, as its mate arrives to take over the parenting duties. A intresting insight into parenting "Booby-style." I love the expression on the Booby being relieved!
    Blue-footed Booby Parenting 2.tif
  • A Blue-footed Booby, with one foot on two eggs in a straw nest, awaits its mate to arrive and take over the parenting duties. The Booby has straw wrapped around its beak and looks a little impatient - almost like it is tapping its foot.
    Blue-footed Booby Parenting 1 10x15 ...tif
  • As a male and female Blue-footed Booby dance past each other their heads are in profile, each looking in a different direction.
    Blue-footed Booby Mates Head to Head.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting along in its typical clumbsy way, checking out the surroundings. One foot is off the ground and in process of taking the next step.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting 2.tif
  • A full-body portrait of a mature Blue-footed Booby standing on a red-lava rock on Rabina, Galapagos Island, in the middle of a dried-grass field.
    Blue-footed Booby Solo 2.tif
  • Swallow-tailed standing on brown, lava rocks on an island in the Galapagos. Its breading collors, the gull's head is black and the eyes red-rimmed. It is lovely grey and white shadings and dark swallow-tail are lovely against a background in shades of gray. Swallow-tailed gulls are the world's only fully nocturnal gull and seabird. The species is endemic to the Galapbaogs Islands and prey on squid and small fish.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Solo 1.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby proudly nestled down on eggs, two of which are visibile, on white island sand tucked in behind green plants.
    Blue-footed Booby Sitting on Eggs 10...tif
  • A close-up of a mature Blue-footed Booby's head and beak showing the white and brown head feathers and the bright yellow iris of the eye against a mottled brown and green background.
    Blue-footed Booby Head.tif
  • A Sliver Spotted Skipper looks right at you from his perch on a white and pink flower. The sun shinning through his left fore-wing makes the band on on his forewing glow.
    Skipper - Silver-spotted.tif
  • Taken from below showing underside of butterfly, a female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail  with wings fully spread and body curved balances on a flower in the North Carolina Botanical Gardens.
    Swallowtail - Eastern iger Femal Und...jpg
  • A full dorsal view of a male Starry Night Cracker showing off his beautiful irridescent blue spots against his dark wings. The Cracker is upside down on a grey-blue trunk.
    Cracker - Starry Night Male Dorsal.tif
  • The beautiful gold coloring of this Julia Longwing stands out agains the multi-shade green background as it hangs on a brigh-red flower in a three-quarter vetnral position. Notice the berry dropping from the flower.
    Julia Longwing - Dryas julia - Ventr...tif
  • A close up dorsal view of a  Blue Clipper butterfly with color and markings showing against a bright red flower and a multi-shaded green background.
    Clipper - Blue Dorsal Close.tif
  • A Grey-crested Cachalote sits on a fence in Brazil showing its beautiful rust feathers, grey-crest and very alert yellow eye against a blurred forest background.
    Grey-creasted Cachalote Rufous Solo.tif
  • Carnivorous Venus Flytraps with their red, hinged leaf-lobes, trimmed in gold and lined with red spiked hairs, open and iniviting  - ready to catch an unsuspecting insect.
    Venus Flytrap 1.tif
  • Two adult Galapagos Hawks perched on a large rock stand out in the leafless-brush on Espanola Island, in the Galapagos where they are endemic. Similar in size to the Red-tailed Hawk, the Galapaogs hawk is about 47-inches long with a wing span around 21-22 inches.
    Galapagos Hawks 1.tif
  • Water drops are almost three-dimensional sitting on a portion of golden gladiola right after a brief rain shower at an island hotel in Thailand. Print on metallic paper for interesting effect.
    Gladiola Tears.tif
  • Brown Pelican looking very regal as it poses on the reddish rocks of Rabida in the Galapgos Islands. Whith his long neck extended, his long grey beak rests against his white-feathered beast covered with closed wings in shades of brown.
    Brown Pelican Solo.tif
  • Close up of a brown pelican preening. Pelican has its neck twisted to reach its feathers showing off its head, the well-defined, feathered outline around its long, grey beak.All against the reddish background of the Rabida sand.
    Brown Pelican Preening.tif
  • Nazca Booby, in profile, stands alone on a gray rock along the shore of the South Plaza, Santa Cruz Island, in the Galapagos, with the ocean and typical island flora in the background.
    Nazca Booby Solo 1.tif
  • Blue-footed Boobys preparing to mate. The female is in position in the nest she just cleared and the male is approaching her from the rear with his tail up in the air. Might add that the actual act of mating takes seconds and is somewhat anti-climatic after the very long mating process.
    Blue-footed Boobys Mating 1.tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting along in its typical clumbsy way, checking out the surroundings. Left foot is off the ground and in process of taking the next step.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting 4 10x15_...tif
  • A full-body portrait of a mature Blue-footed Booby standing on a red-lava rock on Rabina, Galapagos Island, in the middle of a dried-grass field.
    Blue-footed Booby Solo 2.tif
  • A male and female with beaks touching preforming a courting dance against the red sands of Rabida Island.
    Blue-footed Booby Courting 2.tif
  • Swallow-tailed gulls about to mate with the female looking up at her mate who is standing on her shouldesr with wings spread. The gulls are in full breading collors of black head and red-rimmed eyes. Mating pairs frequently stay together from year to year and feed their chick for about 90 days.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Loving.tif
  • Swallow-tailed couple kissing [touching beaks] with their beautiful breeding colors of grey and white markings enhanced by their red eye-rims and feet stand out against a background of dark lava rocks in Galapagos. Mating pairs frequently stay together from year to year.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Kissing.tif
  • Juvenile Swallow-tailed gull showing off its imature coloring of a white head and chest, flesh-colored legs and feet, dark-rimmed eyes and black beak with back feathers in shades of grey, brown and white against a background of brown lava rock.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Juvenile.tif
  • Mother, father and juvenile Swallow-tailed gulls. Junior, almost as big as its parents, is looking for food. A mating pair of Swallow-tail gulls  frequently stay together from year to year. They feed their chick for about 90 days before it ventures to the sea.
    Swallow-tailed Gull Family 1.tif
  • Two Blue-footed Boobys - an immature one in profile and an adult facing the viewer in a three-quarter stance - showing the coloring changes that occur as the birds mature.
    Blue-footed Boobys 1 .tif
  • Blue-footed Booby strutting right towards the viewer with one blue foot in the air and the very distinctive look on its face. Background is the reddisht earth of Rabida Island.
    Blue-footed Booby Strutting.tif
  • A Grecian Shoemaker stands on a battered leaf in beautiful profile with dark red wing tips, antennae projected forward and eye and probiscus clearly defined against a green and white background.
    Shoemaker - Grecian - Male Ventral.tif
  • A Snowberry Clearwing Hummingibird moth, that looks a lot like a bumblebee, hovering over a white impatient. The moth's probiscus at ready, the gold and brown body still with the wings beating like a hummingbirds. The Snowberry Clearwing is similar to the Hummingbird Clearwing Moth(Hemaris thysbe).
    Snowberry Clearwing Hummingbird 2.tif
  • A Snowberry Clearwing Hummingibird moth, that looks a lot like a bumblebee, feeding on a white impatient. The moth's probiscus is inserted into the red center of the flower and its clear wings stand out against the green leaves. The Snowberry Clearwing is similar to the larger Hummingbird Clearwing Moth(Hemaris thysbe).
    Snowberry Clearwing Hummingbird 1.tif
  • A lovely Postmanis is perched on a red flower that matches the wide red band on its forewng. Head and antennae apparent and clear.
    Postman - Heliconius Hecale dorsal.tif
  • A close up of a Great Mormon Swallowtail showing its colorful markings, yellow body, head and projected probiscus against water-spotted leaves.
    Swallowtail - Great Mormon - Dorsal.tif
  • A Telelus Longtailed skipper feeding on the nectar of a bright pink flower.
    Telus Longtail Skipper - Urbanus pro...tif
  • Brown Pelican swimming in the clear, bright green water around Santa Fe in the Galapagos Islands. His webbed feet are visible and his beak is touching the water.
    Brown Pelican Swimming Solo.tif
  • Close up of a Brown Pelican flying across wavy ocean green waters waters in the Galapagos Islands. Wing almost touching the water.
    Brown Pelican Flying.tif
  • Male Nazca Booby is giving his female an affectionate peck on her "cheek" as the couple balance on the gray, black and golden lava rocks of Espanola Island, in the Galapagos where the Nazca Boobys are endemic.
    Nazca Booby Affectionate Peck.tif
  • Blue-footed Boobys have mated and the female is preparing to settle into the nest and the male strutting with his head and tail in the air seemingly all proud of himself. Might add that the actual act of mating takes seconds and is somewhat anti-climatic after the very long mating process.
    Blue-footed Boobys Mating 2.tif
  • A Blue-footed Booby preening its wet feathers after having just emerged from the ocean onto the red lava rock of Rabida Island, one of the Galapagos Islands. Notice that its feet are not blue which is typical when the bird comes from the water. As the bird warms up the feet slowly turn the recognizable blue.
    Blue-footed Booby Preening.tif
  • Rarely photographed, this white moth with wings fringed in rust and irridencent gold, bead-like bars sits on a beige tile floor with its wings spread and rust colored antena apparent and shadowed. Markings on white wings are dotted with rust enhancing the scalloped edge of the moth. It took hours of searching to identify. It has no common name.
    Leuciris beneciliata, Proust 1910.tif
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