The end of life for the flower. the beginning of life for the seed.
More of my garden flowers. Rained last night I had to get outside to take these before the sun dried everything up
Terrible day for landscape photos at the Eagle river nature center. When the weather gives you lemons it time for macro shots
Alaskan flowers near Girdwood. Wanted to test my macro/ Focus stacking. I could use som more practice.
Arctic Valley fall colors. I took this photo while waiting for my boys that were picking the fall blueberries.
A simple image of a tuft of grass poking through the wind swept snow along the Seward Highway
Three stages of the Dahlia. All captured on one stem
my depressed Dahlia.
Busy bee making fireweed honey
The first blooms of the season for our dahlia plants.
A few of my dahlias around the house
A very tiny Spring Azure butterfly. This little insect is smaller than a dime. I used my Tamron 150-600mm, standing about 15 feet away . You can't tell , but it was super windy last night.
Dahlia flower bud from my gardem.
Just felt like doing something a little different to break up the landscape photos.
Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
My son spotted this Butterfly fluttering around the yarrow plants.