Monday, June 29, 2009
Modest Sphinx moth
Last week while kayaking in Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula, I found this large moth with a fur-like body floating in the St. Marys River. Nudging it with my paddle I discovered the moth was still alive so I scooped it up onto the bow of the kayak.
After returning to shore, I scrounged a piece of birch bark, set up the camera and tripod, and made this photo.
A week later, with a somewhat lengthy search on the different kinds of moths, I'm surprised at just how many species there actually are.
Image © 2009, Daniel Staudacher || Chippewa County, Michigan.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Road Trip
Saturday, June 6, 2009
A New Cloud?
That's right, a new cloud formation called asperatus clouds, or its proposed Latin name, Undulus asperatus. While reading the online NG article I recalled making a photograph of those clouds just over two years ago. Inconclusive results suggest these clouds may be an indicator of climate change.
Image © 2007, Daniel Staudacher || Essexville, Michigan
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