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Insects and spiders can be found everywhere, not just outdoors, perhaps to manys dismay (not mine!). Actually, a few of my favorite shots were taken in my own bathroom, but I don't think the general public wants to see photos of dank and dusty corners. I certainly prefer shooting insects and spiders their more natural habitats, plus I just plain love being outside. So here are some of my photographing havens, the flora within, and the scenic settings throughout.
Jump to: LANDSCAPES | TREES & PLANTS | MUSHROOMS & FUNGI | ARTSY
LANDSCAPES
|  A serene setting of Joe Pye Weed byt mountain streamside near New Paltz NY
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 A water lily festooned pond in Harriman State Park, NY
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 My favorite place for bug huntin'. An abandoned farm field near my family's summer cottage in upstate NY.
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 A small waterfall in a stream in upstate NY
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 It's all about the angle, from here this millimeter high moss looks like a high hillock.
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 More moss taken from ground level, where inches look like miles.
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 Farmland pasture
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 Where pasture meets pond
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 Pasture meets pond again
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 Another streamside waterfall
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 A larger river upstate, was looking for caddisflies
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 Another meandering stream shot
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 Water lily pond shot behind some reeds
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 New Platz known for its natural beauty never fails to deliver
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 Woods and swampland
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 Abandoned railroad high atop a hill, buzzing with bugs, also rescued a turned around turtle once.
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 Wetlands
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 Trail in the woods
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PLANTS & TREES
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 Yikes, an invasive but a beauty, Porcelain Berry.
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 Black Raspberries, yum!
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 Chicory, you can make coffee from its ground up root. So I hear.
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 A dramatic daisy.
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 My mom would know this flower, will have her ID soon. They look like small non thorny thistles.
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 One of my favorites and popular with the bugs, Queen Anne's Lace, wild carrots!
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 False Solomon's Seeal
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 A fern unfurling
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 Fiddlehead ferns, I am not too keen on their taste but a delicacy in some restaurants.
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 Wild ginger, how cute is this tiny blossom?!
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 Jewelweed, aka Touch-Me-Nots. But really, touch them when their pods are fat and ready to burst, a favorite summer past time.
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 Jewelweed
from the front, beautiful plants but unfortunately they
often grow amongst poison ivy.
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 The lovely Maidenhair Fern up close.
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 A patch of Maidenhair Ferns dappled with sunlight, scenery like this soothes me to no end.
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 Maidenhair Fern, named for the fronds that form in a circle like a crown.
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 Milkweed pod fluff, mini marachute ready to seed forth.
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 More Milkweed pod fluff. Insects that feed on this plant can also be noxious like the plant's poisonous sticky white sap.
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 Milk weed is a great plant for finding bugs, not just the Monarch Butterfly. I am hoping to find a chrysalis of one some day...
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 Milkweed blossom, aka bug buffet!
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 I think this is a New England Aster.
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 Spadderdock leaves, they aren't really that tall, I shot this from the ground up.
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 Just a tendril, or bug highway if you will.
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 Some
kind of curling vine.
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 Maple leaves.
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MUSHROOMS & FUNGI
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 Tiny black mushrooms, was thinking of tackling this category as my next photo hunt.
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 This cute one looks like there should be a fairy resting on top.
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 If I discovered this I might name it bubble gum mushroom.
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 Very cool fungi, a creamsicle orange color with brighter hues, was rather large for a fungi.
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 Another view.
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 Ok, I have to say it: What did the mushroom say when the barternder refused to serve him? "C'mon, I'm a fun-gi!"
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ARTSY
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 If
you have a good macro, droplet shots are a must
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 Check out the reflections inside of them!
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 I would like a necklace like this actually.
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|  Softer dew
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 Droplets
on a leaf, ok ok, I reallllly like droplets...
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 Last one, spider web lace!
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 An aptly termed blade of grass, piercing through a leaf, what strength!
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 It's just a dead leaf but flowing down the river, it looked more organic.
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 I
like getting down on the ground and shooting upwards, makes
these millimeter high spouts look like tall wheat almost.
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| Again ground up, mere moss turned into mountain.
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Moss on rock looks like a mini topography map.
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On golden pond...oh to have this lighting at my beck and call, dusk on a lily pond through reeds.
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Ground up, spadderdock leaves look like a rainforest. To me.
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Just a maple tree but in the right lighting, splendour in the leaves.
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Simple daisy in dramatic lighting.
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