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Ruby Redthroated hummingbird on guard at the feeder

Hovering Ruby Redthroated hummingbird guarding its food source

Result of a practical photo session in college that was really spooky a week or so before Halloween. The vampire mask on the floor belongs to me.

Desert Botanical Garden Hummingbird

Peering groggily towards me, this Big Brown Bat, appears like a little drowsy with his suitable roost on the side of a Flowering Pear tree.

This Praying Mantis is preparing for the air. With her wings spread wide she expressed her agitation with me by lashing at the lens. What a flighty temptress.

The 2 main industries of Northern Ireland at the time of the launch of the Titanic taken during the year of the 100th anniversary.

A Water Hyacinth blooms one morning in my water garden.

Protecting her young, this mother Wolf Spider bares her fangs at the camera. Living only 2 feet from a chicken coup, I feel I am the least of her worries.

An male Eastern Dobsonfly prepares for battle as he raises his jaws to my lens.

The fountains by the Albert Clock, Belfast on a very wet day shot sheltering in the entrance of the First Trust Bank HQ without permission.

Emerging from the leaves an Indian Pipe, or Corpse Flower, shows its true beauty in its pale, fleshy flowers.

While walking along a drying creek, what I believe is a Tree Volvariella mushroom, emerges from the side of a rotten log. This fungus surely enjoyed the humidity that arose from the recent rain more t

Foggy Night in Windsor

Backyard Beauty

Tilted Window View of Toronto

Roaming the neighborhood alleys on a spring day.

Rambling along a neighboring path during a spring day.

Stopping by the church on a spring day.

Street Performer

Bromo Mountain Temple its Phenomenon Landscape and Culture at East Java,Indonesia

On a walk through Haddonfield, NJ.

9th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

Emerging from the leaves an Indian Pipe, or Corpse Flower, shows its true beauty in its pale, fleshy flowers.

Emerging from the leaves an Indian Pipe, or Corpse Flower, shows its true beauty in its pale, fleshy flowers.

TAGS: Missouri, United States

Garrett Hargiss

Middlebrook, Missouri, United States of America

Member since 2014

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© Garrett Hargiss.
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digital

Date Taken:

09.2011

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Nov. 9, 2011, 9:12 a.m.

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COOLPIX L110

Focal Length:

15.1mm

Shutter Speed:

1/33

Aperture:

f4.5

ISO:

ISO400

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