Marbled Beauty: Photographing the Marbled Orb Weaver Spider
A nature photography blog post about encountering and photographing a colorful Marbled Orb Weaver Spider in an Arkansas forest.
Wildlife Photography
Spider Testing the Wind with Ballooning Silk
A spider showed ballooning behavior on my birdhouse, releasing silk to test wind but staying put when flight wasn’t right.
Juvenile Five-lined Skink on a Log
A juvenile five-lined skink flashes its blue tail on a fallen log during my nature walk in Arkansas’s Ouachita Mountains.
Young Cottonmouth Along a Refuge Service Road
I photographed a young cottonmouth along a service road at Sequoyah National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma and kept a safe distance.