The title of this post is a quote attributed to Yogi Berra and how true it is!
When one is low to the ground with a camera set up to take photos of small things (such as odes) one finds oneself attuned to a world that is hidden in plain sight. There is a lot of “stuff” going on between the ground and six inches of elevation!
Much of the “stuff” one sees are insects, but I often observe other types of critters as well. The immature wood frog is one of those.
I had just stood up from photographing a damselfly and had taken a step or two when I heard a faint rustle in the old leaves underfoot. I quickly dropped to my knees to investigate and after searching for a few minutes, I finally found the source of said rustle… a wood frog the size of my thumbnail, unmoving and doing its best impression of a dried leaf!
I moved a bit trying to find a “window” in the detritus on the ground without scaring away the frog. I successfully found an angle with a clear view of the frog and was rewarded with a nice photo of this fairly common but seldom seen animal.
Grasshopper
Insecta Fantastica
Immature Woodfrog
Another good subject for a camera set up to photograph odes are small wildflowers. One can easily make nice photos of the flowers nicely isolated against out of focus backgrounds.
Wildflower
Hawkweed
Yarrow
Fern
REALLY REALLY like your flowers! Great detail and soft backgrounds. I especially liked the yarrow.
The grasshopper and friends aren’t too bad either.
Comment by Joe Kennedy — 28 June 2015 @ 10:30 PM