Photos

Nature

Wildness from a person’s eye view

A dark brown snail wearing a slightly blurred shell crawls along a forest floor.
Two white stalks of ghost pipe stick up from a forest floor.
Yellow pistils with brown stripes are clear atop a flower bloom that is lavender in color.
Red fronds stick up from green lichen that is atop a rock shelf.
A red pine cone bud sticks out from the end of a conifer twig.
Sunlight illuminates the moss-covered remains of a tree trunk.
The gray bark of a fallen tree limb stretches into the distance along a forest floor.
A black-capped chickadee, looking at the camera, clings to a tree branch.
A sandpiper with a gray top and white underbelly walks across a sandy beach.
Sunlight strikes fungus growing out of the side of a rotted log.

Garden

Wildness under the illusion of control

Yellow flowers atop a dill plant offer a meal to a small fly that is about to land.
A monarch butterfly sips nectar from a butterfly milkweed flower.
A multi-colored sunflower is among green green leaves at the end of the stalk.
A multi-colored sunflower is among green green leaves at the end of the stalk.
A row of flowers with multiheaded blooms of white and red are in a row under hanging lights.
A row of red, spiked flowers runs down a bed with tall flowers with white blooms behind them.
A brown paper wasp sips nectar from a dill flower.
A butterfly sips nectar from a cornflower.

Life in small

Wildness from a worm’s eye view

Snow is caught in the center of a flower with several emerging bulbs of green and yellow.
Small facets of a large rock are mirrored in the water of a small pool on its surface.
Multiple fronds of dark-green lichen are shown up close.
An ant's head is shown up close.
Snow clings to the side of a flower with multiple reddish buds.
Snow is caught in the center of a flower with several emerging bulbs of green and yellow.
The wisps of a spider web are caught in morning sunlight.
Three small blooms of lavender and white are clustered in the center of the photo.
The heads of several golden fungus stalks are in focus while the rest of it fades to blur.
Water pools in a multi-colored basin on a rock's surface.
A central flower bud is surrounded by green leaves.