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The Variety Collection

My images in this gallery are used in other galleries or for elements of the website, but please do feel free to browse/shop it if you are curious. You will find a large potpourri of my photography in this collection with image subjects ranging from urban to wilderness.
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Swallowtail Mineral Lick Puddle Club
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Swallowtail Mineral Lick Puddle Club

Many butterflies like to siphon mineral salts from exposed soils and evaporating mud puddles. These butterfly "puddle clubs" form in places such as along dirt roads and paths where water regularly accumulates after rain and evaporates, concentrating the nutrients. Butterflies will even continue to visit these sites after the puddles have dried up. They exude saliva through their proboscis (tongue) and then suck up the nutrients.

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  • Ancient Sentinel Lookout
  • The Welcome Home Rainbow
  • Mountain Mahogany Sun Seeding
  • An Entry into Atmospheric Optics
  • Ginormous Front Range Rainbow
  • A Lunatic's take on South Loveland from Carter Lake
  • Bridled Wind Machine
  • Another Denver Broncos Fan
  • Alfred Hitch-owl Presents
  • Beauty Buteo
  • Gated Transcendence
  • Nokhu Crags at Lake Agnes
  • Lake Agnes in Evening Sunshine
  • Moore from the Denver Botanic Gardens
  • Wildfire Season in the Colorado Rockies
  • Soapstone to Rawhide Moonrise
  • If it were only a mirage
  • Swallowtail Mineral Lick Puddle Club
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