Common Checkered Skipper Canvas Print

Common checkered skippers rarely sit still long enough for a detailed photograph. But, thanks to the arrival of cool autumn temperatures this skipper was stranded on some dahlias that my wife Jenny placed in a vase on our deck table. A strategically placed lavender dahlia provided the colorful background for this image.

Jim Zablotny is a natural historian, entomologist, and nature photographer from Fenton, Michigan. His present work emphasizes color, detail, and bold composition of natural subjects. His artistic endeavors included scientific illustration, and presently nature photography with subjects ranging from macro photographs of insects and wildflowers, to birds, reptiles,amphibians, and mammals. Many of his newer images are photographs of the living things found in endangered habitats like prairies, and fens. Jim is a regular participant on the Nature Photographers Network (http://www.naturephotographers.net/enter.html) and has earned Editor's picks for weekly and monthly presentations for his macro-photography of insects and wildflowers. One...