Flamingos at Fort Worth Zoo

These are some of my early photographs.  I had only had my camera a few months when we went ot visit the Mola Exhibit at the Fort Worth Zoo.  I shot these Flamingos while at the zoo.  They were captured on a Canon 5D Mark II.

Yellow Jacket photographs

These are some photographs of Yellow Jackets.  I found these Yellow Jacket Wasp under a log on a cold morning in spring.  These wasp, just like most other insects, slow down and cant fly during the colder days.  I was able to get these macro photographs of Yellow Jackets without any problems because the insects were cold and couldn't fly.

I shot these macro photographs of Yellow Jackets on my Canon 5D Mark II using a Canon MP-E 65mm 1x-5x macro lens and a Canon MT-24EX flahs unit.

Yellow Jackets are predatory insects that feed on necture, other insects and meat.  They live in colonies and will fiercly defend their nest.  Generally holes in the ground, bushes and other protected areas are used for nesting.  Yellow Jackets are mostly harmless to humans except for a painful sting.  Only people allergic have anything to fear.

These are some macro videos I took of Yellow Jacket Wasp.

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Prairie Kingsnake photographs

I caught this Prairie Kingsnake in Troy Texas in April.  Prairie Kingsnakes are generally very docile snakes.  This snake did not bite and was not aggressive.  These reptiles are found in most of the southern states.  Prairie Kingsnakes eat mice and rats and will eat other snakes if they find them.  This is how they get the name Kingsnake.  Like all Kingsnakes they will eat other snakes even venomous ones.  They have an immunity to the venom which makes Rattlesnakes and others vulnerable.

These photographs of a Prairie Kingsnake were taken on a Canon Rebel T3I.

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White Crabspider on a Purple Flower

This is my favorite spider photograph I have taken.  This is a White Crabspider on a Purple Flower.  I was in Troy Texas visiting family.  I noticed that almost all of the purple flowers had these tiny White Crabspiders on them.  I got my macro lens and started taking photographs.

These tiny arachnids wait on the flowers for other insects to land.  When they land the spiders grab them and eat them.  I don't believe these spiders spin any sort of web.  I never saw any webs around any of the spiders.

These photographs were taken on a Canon 5D Mark II camera using a Sigma 180mm lens and a Canon MT-24EX twin flash unit.  No tripod was used.

Photographs of a Tarantula.

These are photographs of a Tarantula I shot a few weeks ago.  My co-worker knows that I like to take photographs of animals.  Over the fourth of July weekend she offered to bring me back anything unusual she found at her parents ranch.  She called Sunday and said she had found a Tarantula Spider for me.

The first photograph is my hand holding the Tarantula.  These arachnids are mostly gentle and wont bite unless you really harass them.  

Tarantula in hand.

I decided I wanted to get some shots of the spider crawling on a branch.  I grabbed a branch from the yard and set it up so that the Tarantula was crawling on it.

Tarantula Spider

In the end I wanted to do some stock type shots as well.  I couldn't think of anything except using some toy blocks to spell the word spider and have the Tarantula crawl on it.  These eight legged arachnids are pretty slow moving and calm so it wasn't hard to get a few photographs of the Tarantula.

Tarantula on blocks