{"id":1081,"date":"2015-05-02T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T12:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2015\/05\/02\/150502-wildflowers\/"},"modified":"2022-03-05T17:47:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T23:47:02","slug":"150502-wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2015\/05\/02\/150502-wildflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"More Texas wildflower action (with 17% more bugs, too!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The bluebonnets are thinning out in the Texas Hill Country, but wildflower season is far from over. The amazing fields of blue are giving way to even more vivid arrays of yellow, red, and white blooms, and not just from the typical flowering plants. Cacti are busy putting out their own displays of color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, of course, where the flowers go, bugs are bound to follow. And, sometimes, creatures more reptilian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spent last weekend at Horseshoe Bay and on Sunday afternoon Debbie and I took our cameras out for a walk. The first thing I did was drop my macro lens on the pavement. Fortunately, Canon makes a really rugged lens and even though it suffered a few scratches and dents, it continued to perform perfectly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was quite breezy and those of you who do macro photography know what a challenge it is to get decent closeups when your subject is swaying continuously. But my technique of taking about 8,000 photos at a time paid off in a dozen or so semi-decent images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is some of what we came back with. You know the drill; click on each picture to see a larger, uncropped version.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n