June 2025
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Independence Day Fireworks (26-June-2025)
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Montgomery Township typically celebrates Independence Day with fireworks several days before the 4th of July. Five cameras were set up to capture the event.
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Whitetail Dragonfly on a Stick (20-June-2008)
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Seventeen-Years Ago Today. Backyard Summertime Nature in New Jersey. I noticed this dragonfly on a stick while on my afternoon backyard walkabout. This was on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. It is a male Common Whitetail Dragonfly (Plathemis lydia) also known as a longtail skimmer. I see them quite often in…
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Wrong Side of the Fence (19-June-2019)
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American Crow and Garden Gnome. Image taken with a Fuji X-T2 camera and 100-400 mm OIS telephoto zoom lens (ISO 200, 400 mm, f/5.6, 1/320 sec).
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Hairy Spider (18-June-2018)
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Seven-Years Ago Today. Springtime Nature in New Jersey. I noticed this hairy spider with some iridescent green at my front door. It stuck around long enough for me to get a camera with a macro lens. I think it is fascinating how many eyes spiders have. I just wish it would do a better job…
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Pink Clouds at Dawn (17-June-2014)
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Pink clouds at dawn over the Atlantic Ocean from the deck of the MV Explorer.
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Wildflower Meadow Selfie (16-June-2020)
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Five-Years Ago Today. Backyard Springtime Nature in New Jersey. Back in the days of Covid-19 I had the backyard wildflower meadow as my own private outdoor retreat. This is a Little Planet selfie view of the wildflower meadow. The main flowers at that time were the yellow Lance-leaf Coreopsis. There are also a few Red…
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Honeysuckle Flowers (15-June-2018)
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Seven-Years Ago Today. Backyard Springtime Nature in New Jersey. I love the smell of the Honeysuckle flowers. I used to have a lot of the vines growing in my backyard. In recent years I haven’t seen as many of the flowers. This week I did see a vine and some of the flowers on the…
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Emerging Mosquito (14-June-2018)
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Mosquito emerging from the water. Image taken with a Leica TL2 camera and 60 mm f/2.8 macro lens.
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Homegrown Pineapple (13-June-2017)
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Pineapple. Backyard urban garden in St. Petersburg. Image taken with a Fuji X-T2 camera and 100-400 mm OIS lens (ISO 200, 138 mm, f/11 1/60 sec).
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Snowy Egret and the Fisherman (12-June-2010)
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Snowy Egret (Egretta thula). Image taken with a Nikon D3s camera and 70-300 mm VR lens.