Eastern Swallowtail

We just had a fast but nasty storm blow through. The sun quickly came back out and so did this butterfly. I don't know where it weathered the storm but I'm glad it made it through.

Another Dragonfly

Here is another view of yesterday's dragonfly!

The Dragon's Fly

I watched this cool dragonfly while I was out walking my dog. Afterward, I grabbed my camera and was delighted that the little guy was still hanging out in the bushes. I couldn't use auto-focus
so I had to manually focus but I'm getting better and quicker at that. Here is one of the pictures that I liked the best.

Not quite the super moon.

The super moon is supposed to be visible tomorrow night, so I will probably be out taking more pictures. Meanwhile, I got one of the moon tonight. I had a 100-300 lens with a 2x converter. The auto-focus wouldn't work with my converter so I had to use manual focus with my window sill being my "tripod". I'll have to go outside with the tripod tomorrow night. Here is the picture of the moon from tonight.

I caught a lightning bug right as it spread its wings to fly away!

The Sweet Blooms of Spring

I love Mimosa Tree Blooms. They look like sweet tentacles of nectar that the butterflies and bees seem to love. They are such a pretty pink and so delicate. Here is one for your enjoyment.

A Real Lady---Bug

I took this a couple of days ago but I thought it was a good picture and thought I would share it with you!

Big Fat Red Ant

I'm out taking bug pictures and today I saw a big fat red ant on a mimosa leaf. He looked pretty ferocious but didn't bother me. Hope you enjoy!

More rainy day pictures

I thought the leaves looked pretty with the leaves covered in little raindrops from the rain yesterday. It is supposed to rain really hard today so I don't think I'll be out taking pictures today. Enjoy this dark moody picture.

After the Rain

There has been pretty steady rainshowers this morning. I went outside during a break and noticed these ladybugs on a Mimosa Leaf. Here is the shot I got.

Prom Time

I had the enjoyable experience of taking some prom pictures for the 8th grade prom for one of the kid's mom. He gave her a beautiful corsage and I took this picture of them holding hands and showing off the corsage. Although it only shows the hands of the young man and young lady, I just love this picture. Hope you will enjoy it too.

Kitty Cave

It's time to feature my feline friend Marty. He's quite the photogenic fellow but I can't really say he loves having his picture taken. He does like hanging out in his Cat Cave. He is peeking out and probably trying to figure out what this round alien thing aka my camera lens is doing. No worries, I was pretty far away.

Fun at a friend's house

I recently had the pleasure of taking pictures at the house of a friend name Audrey. We had a great time doing it and I look forward to going there again. Here are a couple of the pictures from that day. One is of Audrey and her younger son and the other is of her older son.

Mallards Hanging Out

I was looking through some of my old pictures and came across some Mallard ducks that live at the pond on Elon University. The drake was walking toward the female.

More Spring Beauty

My neighbor has the best green thumb and allows me to come over and take pictures whenever I would like. Her Irises have started blooming and they are so beautiful. I hope that you will enjoy them.

A Swan's View

I found some of my pictures from last semester. Here is a swan who lives at Elon University in the lake. He decided to check me out while I carefully used a telephoto lens to capture this image.

A Little Bling

I thought I would try photographing something different so I grabbed some costume jewelry and took it to school. Here are some of the results:

Texture and Clipping Masks

It's the weekend and I'm goofing around with photoshop and thought I'd play with text, texture and clipping masks. I used a picture of a campfire clipped onto my texts so the word fire would be made of fire. I also took a texture and used it with my multicolor background. So here it is: As always, your comments are welcomed.

Check out my Facebook page

Hope everyone will check out my facebook page and "like" it. Please share it with your friends so that I can break the 100 likes mark! Here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=hp#!/pages/Daylily-Dreams-Photography/103577386667

Spring has Sprung

We are finally getting some real Spring color around here. I'm not sure what kind of tree this is but the flowers sure were pretty.