A got a little bit of luck for a change with a friend of mine calling me up to take a macro picture of a green crab spider. It just so happened that this little [...]
May 132013
Apr 262013
Our Port Elizabeth Photography Club often gets folks together for sunsets and sunrises. Here is one of my shots from such an event.
Mar 232013
The Garden Inspector or the Garden Commodore is from the genus Precis. This genus consists of robust, medium-sized and brightly coloured nymphalines. These are similar to Junonia (the Pansies), but they don’t have eye spots [...]
Mar 032013
Over the years, I have taken many macro shots, some being ants. Here are some of the shots have taken mostly with a Canon 7D with a Raynox DCR250 filter attached to give a little [...]
Feb 142013
Here is a beautiful green jumping spider. I believe it to be of the family Salticidae and of the Genus Thyenula. The species is probably juvenca. This male was found in my back yard in Port [...]
Jan 282013
Both the Geranium Bronze (Cacyreus marshalli) and the Water Bronze (Cacyreus tespis tespis) are butterflies from the family Lycaenidae. They are both small, low-flying butterflies, with the undersides a ground-colour brown, irrorated with white. The fore-wing has a [...]
Jan 012013
A recent outing of our Facebook group, the Port Elizabeth Camera Club, called for a sunset shoot out at a place called Seaview. This was a chance to test some HDR style photos of sunsets [...]
Dec 152012
I have been trying out my 90mm Tamron Lens recently with my Canon 7D. I had installed an alpha version of Magic Lantern onto it to see what could be achieved with it. I was [...]
Nov 292012
The Depicta Copper – Aloeides depicta is pretty small butterfly ranging from 26mm to 29mm in the males and 29mm to 35mm in the females. Depicta is a relatively variable butterfly, colour-wise. The upperside being a [...]
Nov 202012
I am not going to say too much about this spider as I have given a pretty good explanation of it on a post a few weeks ago. You can find the information here. I [...]