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Beetles
Favorite Focus, July 2023
View the July 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Northern lights as seen in Kansas. Photo © Thaddeaus Magley. Fireflies. Photo © Steven Russell Smith. It looks to me like Steven Russel Smith’s creative...
Focus Illustrated, June 2023
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide I took this HDR panorama just after sundown at a field with a beautiful mixture of Indian paintbrushes and Texas Bluebonnets. I used six individual HDRs...
Sparks of Beetle Light
View the April 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Along the roadside in a mass of morning glory plants, specks of gold flitted among the leaves. They moved fast and were hard to focus on, but with the...
Acquiring Photographic Inspiration: Focus Illustrated and Favorite Focus, September 2022
Focus Illustrated, August 2022
Of Bolides and Birds
Bolide with Tau Herculid meteor shower and fireflies. Photo © Cheryl Shank. I didn’t know birds talk in their sleep, but they surely must. About 12:30 a.m. an Ovenbird began to talk. Before long, a...
July 2022, End of the Trail: Bolides
Photos © Cheryl Shank.
Insect Unscramble
Mailbox, October 2021: Black Swallowtail Chrysalises
Creation Close-ups, October 2021
Pictures and Poems, October 2021
Living Lights
My eyes were glued to the western sky as I searched the darkness for incoming lights. Although it was the fourth of July, 2021, I wasn’t watching a fireworks display, nor was I looking for an...
Mailbox, August 2021: What Kind of Bee?
Hickory Mystery
“Where’s Sparkie?” “She’s over there on that knoll. You don’t have to worry about her. She knows this woods better than we.” Hickory tree. Photo © Stephanie Nicole Castle/Dreamstime.com. “Look at...
