a little wild   (a small slice of wildlife)

From 20150415_devils_rock

From 20150415_devils_rock

If you take a short exposure, it seems to freeze the waves, and often seems static. If you take a long exposure, it blurs all the movement and ends looking rather static, too. These exposures are about half a second or so, and to me they bring out the action and look more dynamic. I really need to use a tripod, and get a neutral density filter, though.

From 20150415_devils_rock

From 20150415_devils_rock

From 20150415_devils_rock

Looked under a rock, and there was a network of strands (fungus)? Water droplets were on them, clearly not dew, perhaps snow melt.

From 20150404_moose_hill

Water beetle with an air bubble for breathing. Dytiscidae?

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A collection of air bubbles under the water. The nest of the water beetle?

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Mosquito Larva:

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Some kind of nymph. Perhaps dragonfly nymph, Dytiscid beetle nymph, or hellgrammite (dobsonfly larva):

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Millipede under water:

From 20150405_moose_hill

Lithobiomorpha centipede, perhaps Lithobius genus:

From 20150405_moose_hill