10 of each
120 photos
10 species of each family of insects (and arachnids).
Cheryl's Favorite Photos
1069 photos
Favorites from every category. Trying to keep these to 10% or less of any group, but to get a range of photos representing most of the groups.
100 Flowers
106 photos
This hasn't been my typical wildflower year. My close-up camera broke and I had some trouble getting it replaced (it was supposed to be under warranty, but Canon stopped making that model). By the...
Bird Life and Action
120 photos
For 2024, the 100x group, I have chosen the theme of Bird Life and Action.
The idea is to include ten photos of each of ten themes.
As a place holder and example of where this theme is...
366 days of 2024
277 photos
In 2020, 2022, and 2023 I participated in at least one 365 group per year. In 2020 I didn't miss a day; in 2022, I missed only the days I was quarantined in my bedroom during Covid, and in 2023 I...
Mammals
434 photos
All my life I have loved animals. Most places in America, it is easier to see birds or insects than mammals, and I have taken far more photos of birds and butterflies. But mammals are a special...
Chipmunks
79 photos
They're rodents and can be destructive, but they are oh so cute too.
Muskrats
115 photos, 1 video
This has become one of my favorite species of mammals simply because they seldom show much fear of humans, leaving the careful photographer free to continue to take shots while the rodent feeds,...
Squirrels
440 photos
Mostly fox squirrels, with an occasional individual of other species.
Rabbits
87 photos
This species seems to have one main purpose in life, turning plant life into protein for the benefit of carnivores. They reproduce rapidly; they are cute and wary and a fun find for the nature...
Creatures Making Eye Contact with Me
27 photos
Some of these might not actually be looking at me, but in each case it seems that the subject and I are aware of each other.
White-tailed Deer
260 photos
butterflies of 2024
51 photos
Sorting insects into folders, generally one photo per species (although there are likely to be more than one of some while I sort out the best ones).
moths of 2024
30 photos
Sorting insects into folders, generally one photo per species.
caterpillars of 2024
32 photos
Sorting insects into folders, generally one photo per species. It has been a good year for caterpillars, though, and I may initially have some duplicates.
damselflies of 2024
23 photos
Sorting insects into folders, generally one photo per species.
dragonflies of 2024
20 photos
Sorting insects into folders, generally one photo per species. Since dragonflies of some species have different colors for male and female, I will have two shots (if I can get them) for some species....
dragons and damsels
37 photos
flies of 2024
60 photos
Sorting insects into folders, generally one photo per species.
wasps of 2024
38 photos
bees of 2024
32 photos
For sorting.
true bugs of 2024
68 photos
Sorting insects into folders, with the end result ideally being one photo per species, but currently a work in process.
beetles of 2024
30 photos
miscellaneous insects of 2024
21 photos
spiders of 2024
72 photos
Sorting insects and arachnids into folders, generally one photo per species, though they may have more than one of some while I'm sorting.
This has been the best spider year I've ever seen, both in...
Explored photos sorted by subject
115 photos
As of the end of September 2024, I have had more than 70 photos chosen for Explore. (Big Huge Labs shows three additional ones, which I have now added to this folder, though none show numbers that...
Raptor Nests
421 photos, 12 videos
Red-tailed hawks built a nest about a mile from me, and over the several weeks before the chicks fledged I made frequent checks on it. The last two years I saw the fledglings after they left the...
heronry of great blue herons
391 photos, 2 videos
A heronry in southern Indiana, USA, of perhaps 50 nests, observed and photographed over multiple visits in spring and now early summer 2023.
Black and White
281 photos
Nearly all shot in color initially, but converted to black an white, sometimes for challenges and sometimes because it seemed like a good photo to have in black and white. Some conversions will work...
Arizona birds
54 photos
Arizona flowers
80 photos
Frost Shots
852 photos
I didn't grow up in snow country, and only recently have I had equipment capable of taking macro photos. Besides, most of my animal subjects are harder to find in winter, leaving me to focus on what...
insects and arachnids of 2023
674 photos
Since 2020 I have attempted to collect all the species of insects (and spiders and their kin) I have found during the year in a single folder. It always adds up to hundreds of species, and I'm always...
Nature Collages
403 photos
Images collecting photos of a series into one place for comparison and contrast. Collages occasionally allow uses of an image not strong enough to be uploaded on its own (e.g., with slight lack of...
365 days of 2023
376 photos
After being a member of two 365 groups in 2022 (and posting different photos to each 90% of the time or more), I planned to take at least a year off. But I found good creature shots as the year...
100x (action shots) 2023
105 photos
This year I have chosen the theme action shots. I want to do better with some aspects, so this allows me a chance to practice. I will probably take photos in groups of ten. For instance, 10 mammals...
100 Wildflowers of 2023
105 photos
For the 100 Flowers group, and to keep track of the prettiest wildflowers as they bloom in my area of Indiana.
insects on flowers (variety)
174 photos
In this folder I'm trying to get as large a range as possible of both flowers and insects. The goal is no repetition of either, although in the process of creating the mix, inevitably there will be...
frosted flowers
56 photos
moths of 2023
23 photos
flies of 2023
109 photos
Not yet sorted, so there will be repetition here--but a large array of insects, nevertheless.
bees of 2023
56 photos
Not yet sorted, and probably a fair amount of repetition in this set.
365 creatures of 2023
374 photos
I'm trying something new this year. Thirty different creatures per month, with as little repetition as possible through the year. That should be easy in May through September, but I may not be able...
creatures of 2023
357 photos
creatures posing on me
41 photos
Probably any wildlife photographer has this experience: a little tickle or a prick alerts you that your subject has come to you, landing on your hand or your arm or your leg. In a few of these cases,...
non-public photos
9 photos
sorting photos--these are all supposed to be private (though apparently some aren't) so that I can choose photos from it to upload later and delete them from this album
Raptors
504 photos, 1 video
Birds of the air and specialist hunters, the birds of prey.
So far I have photographed at least ten species, but have to determine which of the photos are good enough to post here. I have chosen to...
Raptor Photo Session
33 photos
A photo session with a raptor rescue organization. A group of us was able to photograph four birds of different species, posed in various outdoor settings--and some photos taken as the birds chose to...
American Kestrels
108 photos
Most of these shots (so far, anyway) are of one male American kestrel I have found repeatedly since November 2022. The most predictable bird I've ever found, outside of a nesting location, it has...
Passerines / Songbirds
1227 photos
Passerines, including the songbirds, include many of our prettiest small to medium birds: warblers, goldfinches, cardinals, chickadees, and hundreds of other species. If I have multiple photos of any...
Red-winged Blackbirds
132 photos
Red-winged blackbirds love reedy areas near water. So they love Indiana.
I find these birds spectacularly beautiful. And the big difference in color between the gaudy males and the camouflaged...
Cardinals
231 photos
My fascination with cardinals extends back to the first one I saw, which was not within its official range. That I can see many a day where I live now, and photograph them pretty much at will, is...
Bluebirds
208 photos
Eastern Bluebirds have taken their spot among the general "Passerines," but I Have enough shots of this bird to give it its own album.
Non-Passerine Backyard Birds
79 photos
Miscellaneous bird species, non-passerine birds other than raptors and water-loving species.
Woodpeckers
355 photos, 1 video
Indiana has seven species of woodpecker, and I showcase all seven--including the nest of the largest species, the pileated woodpecker. I love getting shots of them in flight--the colors are so vivid.
Herons and Egrets
493 photos, 2 videos
Green herons and great blue herons, other herons as I find them and egrets, mostly photographed in Indiana.
Also see my album focused on photos of nesting great blue herons at a heronry from spring...
Ducks and Geese
304 photos
The most recognizable of the bird species that hang out near water, ducks and geese.
Though Mallards and Canada geese will be included, hopefully they won't predominate!
Belted Kingfishers
69 photos
This is notoriously a difficult subject for photographers because it is quite shy and quick to flee. Notably the most likely ways to get a photo are: from a car, from a blind, or a photo of a...
Other Water-Loving Birds
231 photos, 2 videos
Gulls, terns, and more. Herons have their own group, and so do ducks and geese, but these are birds that nest near water, spend much of their time over or on the water, and/or usually find food...
Birds in Flight
343 photos, 1 video
One of the most rewarding challenges in wildlife photography, the successful flight shot.
Peacocks
13 photos
Domesticated birds, but beautiful.
Feathers
84 photos
Funny Photos
35 photos
An unexpected posture or a funny expression on the animal's face--something a little unusual
that caught my attention when I took the photo or when I looked at it later. This album contains a few...
Caterpillars
309 photos
Larvae of butterflies and moths, and interesting on their own. (Note that a few of these might be sawfly larvae, though I try to remove those if I see I've included one.) More caterpillars can be...
Moths
238 photos
I have had moths in with butterflies for a long time, but this interesting and variant category of insect deserves its own album and is getting it.
Butterflies
951 photos
Exquisite markers of summer, butterflies are beautiful, helpful (pollinating flowers and providing food in the form of caterpillars for many other creatures), and fascinating. Caterpillars are in...
Monarch Butterfly: caterpillar to adult
228 photos
Caterpillar, chrysalis, adult: all the stages in metamorphosis (in the wild) here.
Many of these photos appear in other albums, but are gathered in one spot here. All chrysalis photos are a single...
Swallowtail Butterflies
240 photos, 2 videos
Indiana has six species of swallowtail butterflies: giant, zebra, tiger (two color forms), black, spicebush, and pipevine. I will include swallowtail shots that were taken outside Indiana, but most...
Skippers
200 photos
Skippers are small insects that are considered to be like butterflies in some ways and like moths in some ways, but currently considered a butterfly group. They come in many varieties but can be...
Damselflies
291 photos
Dragonflies
478 photos
Summer is definitely near when these little beauties take to the air. Growing up in water, as adults some spend their lives within sight of water and some do not. They come in a wide range of colors...
Flies
491 photos
This album will include craneflie, scorpionflies, and mayflies as well as the robber flies and flower flies and other Diptera species. Originally bees and wasps were also included in this album, so...
Bees
158 photos
For a long time I have kept bees, wasps, and flies in a single album, partly because I can't always tell them apart. I still have a few that confuse me and I've probably made some errors, but the...
wasp photos to download
296 photos
Wasps and Hornets
462 photos
True Bugs
441 photos
"Bug" and "insect" tend to be used interchangeably, and many bugs are easily confused with beetles by the non-expert. (I'm not an expert myself, though I've been observing insects...
Beetles
284 photos
Brightly colored insects with hard outer wing casings protecting the wings they use to fly, beetles come in a range of colors and sizes and some unusual shapes.
Mantises, Crickets, Katydids, Grasshoppers
130 photos
Other Insects
113 photos
Summer simply buzzes with an amazing variety of insects.
Though insects aren't my specialty, the last few years I've attempted to capture some of that range of shape and color. Butterflies have...
Insects on Flowers
655 photos
This album is limited to photos in which both insect and flower are important to the image, not flowers in which one is incidental. In most (but not all) cases that will mean the flower shown is a...
Turtles
282 photos
With ready access to several ponds, in the last few years I've gotten shots of several species of turtles. Most were photographed in Southern Indiana.
Frogs and Assorted Other Creatures
215 photos
Living near two or three ponds now gives me more chances to photograph these creatures that aren't my special interest. This group is for all reptiles and amphibians, and other cold-blooded animals,...
Spiders and Webs
665 photos
Spiders aren't my specialty, but if I get a chance at a good nature shot, I take it. Sometimes that means spiders and/or their webs.
Pets and Zoo and Farm Animals
32 photos
It seems like cheating to put these in with the wild animals, so I have kept them separate. Here are my favorite shots of domesticated and captive animals.
Trees
565 photos
From their grand beauty to their blossoms, leaves, and fruit--and their ability to house and feed creatures, and to recycle our oxygen, trees are a magnificent part of creation. Some of these shots...
Tree Blossoms
110 photos
Flowers of native and non-native trees, mostly photographed in Indiana.
Leaves and Berries
523 photos
Mushrooms and Other Fungus
32 photos
Explored
76 photos
Photos that made it to Flickr's Explore. The good, the bad, and the ugly . . .
collages
18 photos
2020 wildflower challenge
63 photos
In 2020 I collected photos of all the local wildflowers as they bloomed during the year. I visited each of several trails at least every two weeks, ideally every week, and kept track of the species...
Landscapes
435 photos, 1 video
The beauty of a good landscape is a special treat. Landscape is not my specialty, but a good landscape draws my eye and invites the chance to see if a photo can capture the scene. Here are a few...
Macro
774 photos
Close-up details, the smaller the better. Many photos in this album have been shot with the aid of the Raynox DCR-250 super macro snap-on lens. In all of these shots, the total area is no larger than...
Patterns in Nature
455 photos
Much that we see around us is patterned and orderly. It was hard to know where to quit with this album, because I could actually have included photos to show that all monarch butterflies look like...
Almost Black and White
81 photos
Color photos with just a single color in a picture that could almost be black and white. These are not special-effect shots, but true-color photos usually taken on days (or nights) with little color...
Monochrome (not B&W)
694 photos
Photos with a single color. (Black and white will not count as "colors" for this purpose.)
Note: photos that are mostly black and white with just a spot of color (full-color photos that...
Silhouettes
52 photos
I have long loved a good silhouette shot, though I have never had opportunity to take the one that caused me to fall in love with the form: a saguaro cactus against a sunset. Maybe someday! (I tried...
Snow and Ice
830 photos
Frost shots have their own album, but here are the wintry shots that involve snow and/or ice.
Seasons
704 photos, 2 videos
Ice and snow, barns, shots that don't fit in any of my other categories but that I still love. I have arranged them seasonally.
Moon Shots
83 photos
I chose one camera partly because of seeing shots it could take of the moon. And one of my current cameras has a "moon" mode. It's not one of my most frequent subjects, but periodically I...
Wildflowers
679 photos
Colorful, ephemeral, and often pollinated by insects, wildflowers are a highlight of the warm months. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish whether a flower is a wildflower or garden flower. My...
Winter Flowers
257 photos
This is what is left in winter after the color of the flower has faded: seedheads or dried designs. In a handful of cases, the flower itself grew in winter.
Dandelions
111 photos
Non-native, invasive, and difficult to keep out of lawns, yet the dandelion is also a pretty flower with a varied and interesting life cycle. This spring I focused my camera often on this lowly...
white or mostly white wildflowers
651 photos
green wildflowers
56 photos
An unusual color for flowers, but not as uncommon as we might expect.
A few of these are stages other than the mature flower, but most are flowers.
white flowers
85 photos
yellow wildflowers
605 photos
orange wildflowers
61 photos
Orange is a color that in my opinion only God does well. And even He uses it sparingly. Very few flowers have this vivid color. It also appears in the rainbow, butterflies, and in some sunsets.
red or deep pink wildflowers
71 photos
pink or purple wildflowers
358 photos
purple or blue wildflowers
450 photos
Garden Flowers
161 photos
Generally I prefer to shoot wildflowers, but some blossoms are too lovely to miss the chance to photograph them. Shots include blossoms of trees--any flower that was probably deliberately planted.
Non-Nature Photos
210 photos
Photos outside my usual categories, taken for challenges. If I take a photo in my usual categories of photography, it won't end up here. These are more likely to be deleted from my feed unless I...
Cards and Cardmaking
73 photos
Photos of a few favorite cards I have made and card supplies (usually taken for challenges)
wasps on flowers
72 photos
bees on flowers
112 photos
butterflies on flowers
78 photos
flies on flowers
218 photos
moths on flowers
46 photos
beetles on flowers
62 photos
bugs on flowers
56 photos
spiders on flowers
57 photos
new flowers with creatures
631 photos
I'm going to pull together a collection with a range of creatures (ideally 100 species) and a range of flowers (as close to 100 species as possible) from photos I've taken. This is just playing with...
hawk sequence
8 photos
Working with flying osprey nestlings
September insects
17 photos
sorting album 1: butterflies
65 photos
sorting album 2: dragonflies
49 photos
sorting album 3: wasps
46 photos
wasp sorting album
154 photos
sorting album 4: moths
57 photos
sorting album 5: beetles
62 photos
sorting album 6: bees
37 photos
sorting album 7: flies
101 photos
fly sorting album
166 photos
To make it simpler to sort photos for other collections.
hoppers album
73 photos
sorting album 9: caterpillars
47 photos
sorting album 10: spiders
83 photos
new sorting album
149 photos
insects sorted and cropped if necessary
pink album
128 photos
white album
126 photos
black album
141 photos
green and red album
177 photos
blue album
73 photos
green album
170 photos
monochrome stripes album
131 photos
monochrome colors album
149 photos
Insect (and Spider) Species in 2020
557 photos
After finishing the 100x challenge I decided to see if I could get a second hundred. . . . But I have now passed 400 species of insects, even 450, and finally got close to 500. (As of December photos...
2020: 366 Days of Photos
379 photos
I've never tried this before, though I have had years when without "trying" it is a rare day that I haven't taken a photo, where I will go for months at a time without such a day. The last...
100 Flowers in 2020
104 photos
This is simply a group for 100 pretty shots from the year for the 100 Flowers group.
I am trying for 25 shots of garden flowers (including bouquet cut flowers), 25 tree blossoms (wild and cultivated...
100 Insects (and/or creepy-crawlies) in 2020
105 photos
In 2020 I am attempting to separate out one photo of each interesting insect species, whether flashy or tiny and dull. Surprisingly, the first one showed itself January 7. In the 100x group for which...
Best Flowers of the Year (2020)
187 photos
I've been focusing all year on wildflowers, and these are my favorites, usually limited to just one shot per species, though a few have more than one.
100 Flowers of 2021
105 photos
Last year in the 100 Flowers group, I chose 25 tree flowers and 75 species of wildflower. I had no idea how many species of wildflower southern Indiana actually had, and I ran out of photos well...
Insect (and Spider) Species of 2021
719 photos
It's time to see how many insect species smiled for my camera this year. There will be duplicates in here, undoubtedly, though I try my best to limit the shots to one photo per species.
I wasn't...
100 Insects of 2021
105 photos
My 100x theme is again insects, one photo per species, but I am looking for a different set of species than I photographed in 2020. For now I will be putting insects as I photograph them (which...
100x (flowers with creatures) 2022
215 photos
Flowers with Creatures is my chosen theme for 2022. The last two years I chose insects, and this time I wanted to do something a bit different. I think most of the shots will be pollinating insects,...
365 days of 2022 (365: the 2022 edition)
377 photos
So, I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. After taking 2021 off from a 365 challenge, I signed up again for 2022. And signed up for a second 365 group, too, in which I am nearly always putting a...
2022: one photo each day
365 photos
In 2020 I signed up for a group of 366 daily photos. Sometimes it was hard to choose which of two photos to include, and it was also a lot of work for primarily one group. This year I've signed up...
Vertebrate Species of 2022
138 photos
I haven't collected mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians in their own folder before, but the last two years I collected insects and spiders. And it has already been a good year for other species,...
Insect and Spider Species of 2022
540 photos
As was true the last two years, this is a work in progress. The idea is to show one photo of each species of insect or arachnid that I can photograph through the year. If I get the insect in...
new species of 2022
100 photos
In 2020 I photographed every species of wildflower I could find in my area throughout the entire blooming period, quite an intense project, since each month brought hundreds of species.
This year I...
robber flies of 2022
26 photos
It has been an exquisite year for robber flies in southern Indiana, and I have seen multiple species. In this album I've tried for a range of species, poses, and actions, trying to represent each...
100 days, 100 species of creatures (2022)
105 photos
Here's something I haven't tried before . . . and now I've done it successfully. In mid-August I saw that I had taken at least one photo with a creature daily since June 25. I sorted those photos to...
50 more creatures
53 photos
From June 25 to October 2--100 days--I gave myself a challenge to photograph 100 creatures with a different species each day. Obviously I photographed far more than 100 species in those three-plus...
March wildflowers
38 photos
One of each species of wildflower photographed in southern Indiana in March 2020 or March 2021.
April wildflowers
90 photos
One photo per species of wildflowers photographed in April. Collages are of the first and second halves of April in 2020.
May wildflowers
129 photos
One photo of each species of wildflower seen in May 2020 or 2021--nearly all of them within five miles of my house! A couple of these may be duplicates, but all or nearly all are separate species.
June wildflowers
193 photos
One of each species of wildflower photographed in southern Indiana in June 2020. If the flower has more than one color form, I've included all of them. I'm not a botanist and may have made some...
July wildflowers
222 photos
One of each species of wildflower photographed in southern Indiana in July 2020. If the flower has more than one color form, I've included all of them. I'm not a botanist and may have made some...
August wildflowers
195 photos
One of each species of wildflower photographed in southern Indiana in August 2020. If the flower has more than one color form, I've included all of them. I'm not a botanist and may have made some...
September wildflowers
141 photos
Although I have been recording flowers for each half month of the year since April, as far as I know no new flowers begin blooming the second half of September. Some summer flowers will have ceased...
October wildflowers
147 photos
I had planned to stop in September, and I doubt October has any new species. But so many "old" ones are still in bloom, or bloomed at least a week into the month, that it made sense to keep...
dragonflies of Indiana
58 photos
Attempting to narrow it down to one shot per species, but at the moment I'm just collecting the best shots.
butterflies of Indiana
138 photos
Working to include one each of the species of true butterflies I've photographed in Indiana. I'm excluding skippers from this album. Will include more than one color phase if they come in more than...
mating insects
180 photos
One photo per pair. I've included pairs engaged in mate guarding.
rainbow flowers album
157 photos
newer album
247 photos
good insects of 2022 and 2023
248 photos
Shots that I might want to use to update my privately printed "insects" book . . .
photos to print
427 photos