Cruising Beetle
Ladybug – paying no attention to me and defying gravity on a spring day. http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com Image copyrighted. Any use requires licensing from Martha Lochert.
Tag Archives: Macro
Poppies Are Poppin’
The California Poppies are gracefully unfolding their petals … http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com Image copyrighted. Licensing for use may be obtained from Martha Lochert.
Butterfly, Flutterby
Butterflies are hard to photograph. Getting oneself to the right angle to show facial detail, and have it in focus before it flutters off is a challenge. That alone is a test, but add to that using appropriately shallow depth of field to blur the background and getting the face in focus is even harder to […]
First Day of Autumn
Red-orange leaves from Sedona, Arizona to usher in the first day of fall. It’s still hot in Tucson, but eventually we will get some fall color on the few trees we have here that go through the change. Have a happy and healthy autumn! http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com Image copyrighted. Any use requires licensing from Martha Lochert
The Simple Beauty of a Rose
Stop and enjoy the beauty along your path today. Image copyrighted. Any use requires licensing from Martha Lochert. http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com
Tree Bark
Sometimes beauty and form manifests itself in something as simple as the peeling bark on a tree. Image copyrighted. Any use requires licensing from Martha Lochert. http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com
Black and White Aloe
The luscious spears of an aloe plant. Boy, would I love to make a silver gelatin print of this. I miss film. Image registered with U.S. Copyright. Any use requires licensing from Martha Lochert. http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com
Baja Fairyduster
One of the many plants erupting in color at Tohono Chul Park in northwest Tucson, Arizona (www.tohonochulpark.org) is the Baja Fairy Duster (Calliandra californica). It is a soil and drought tolerant shrub which grows to five feet and blooms year-round, though more heavily in the Spring. It can take full sun, but is also hearty down to twenty degrees. As […]
Morning Leaves
.. and in the end, all is washed clean and the soul renewed in the hope of a new day. Image copyrighted. Any use requires licensing from Martha Lochert. http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com
Winterized Fern
My Boston Fern is showing signs of winter, but it is still beautiful while back-lit by the early morning sun. Image copyrighted. Any use requires licensing from Martha Lochert http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com
Happy New Year
The end of another year and my wish for us all is redemption, renewal, growth and good health. May the early morning light shine rays of hope on your world. Image copyrighted. Any use requires licensing from Martha Lochert http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com
Rain Drops on Prickly Pear
… and so the day begins – freshly washed by a morning rain. Image copyrighted. Any use requires licensing from Martha Lochert http://www.MarthaLochertPhotography.com
Prickly Pear Flower Buds
In February we had three days of temperatures that hovered at about fifteen degrees fahrenheit. These kind of temperatures just don’t happen in a place like Tucson, but this winter they did. My city is still showing the signs of the freeze by the numerous palm trees sporting brown crowns, citrus trees which have totally died and thousands […]
Sunflower
Happy Easter. May your day be as bright and hopeful as this cheery yellow sunflower. Image copyrighted Martha Lochert. Any use requires licensing.
Desert Chicory
Desert Chicory (Rafinesquia neomexicana) is a member of the sunflower family. It is a wildflower in the open desert of the southwest United States in elevations from 500 – 4500 feet. I found these on the Douglas Spring Trail in the Rincon Mountains east of Tucson, Arizona. They have a long flowering season of February through July. If […]
Grasshopper
We haven’t had a particularly cold winter in Tucson, but I’m still looking forward to the end of the season and the beginning of Spring because that means we can start taking some excursions to create images of little critters so tiny one needs a macro lens to capture them, like this half-inch long grasshopper nymph I photographed in […]
Beetles on the Move
Pleasing Fungus Beetles enjoying pleasant tasting fungus in southern Arizona. Image copyrighted. Reproduction, copying & file sharing prohibited.
Land of the Lizards
It’s hot in the Sonora Desert. The daytime high’s are still hovering around 106 degrees as we near the end of August. The dogs & cats are lazing in the shade or inside their homes, birds are perched on branches with their mouths open and the lizards are scurrying around, stopping only long enough to do some […]
Green Lynx
This little spider is a Green Lynx (Peucetia viridans). I found him crawling around on a plant by a stream in the Santa Rita Mountains of southern Arizona. That I saw him at all is remarkable since, besides the fact that his color blends so perfectly with the plant, he is only 1/4 to 1/2 inch big! […]
“Black Lighting” for Moths
I recently had the pleasure of “black lighting” with some entomologists and botanists in Gardner Canyon, southeast of Tucson in the Santa Rita Mountains. While it was still light they set up a white scrim to which the moths and other insects would be attracted, and then set up black lights powered by generators on either […]
