I'll admit it.
I have a strange (maybe a little unlady-like) fascination with creeping crawlies: ants, caterpillars, butterflies, snails, slugs, praying mantises, spiders, bees. They're all intriguing to me, and every so often I'll go for a spin around the yard with my camera to snap them up.
I loved this little creature. I think it was a moth, but it's back was this lovely emerald/blue color, and it looked like it had tail feathers like a little bird. It was quite the camera ham too.
Sometimes the closer you get, the more interesting things become.
If you look closely at the ant closest to the camera, you see a little black dot by its head.
That would be its conjoined twin, living, with antennas and all. These particular ants just bumbled about while the others went to work on the flower. Every so often, a friend would drop by just to make sure they were doing alright.
Steven the Quick believes I've discovered either:
A. the ant oracle
B. ant empathy
I believe either discovery merits an award (and not West Nile from all the bites I got trying to document it, please).
I was also in love with bees this summer.
I'll admit with giddy glee that I didn't get stung one time.
Sometimes they do get a little scary though....
Like this bad boy right here, that was perched on my grandparents' tomato plants a month or two ago.
He moved. I screamed.
We had a love/ hate relationship.
It's fun to get so up close and personal with creatures so different from us. It makes me a little more aware of the way I move, of the way I sense things, of the way I look at my world. It's practice in observation, definitely.
Now to find a job where I can just photograph bugs and birds all day.
Any offers?
-Riley
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