I love the river (generic) but I only passed over the Ottawa once (that I know of). I saw freshwater clams on your previous posts. Have not seen many of those in the Susquehanna lately even though NY tells us it is now clean. I see one of those things that grab onto your pants (grass burdocks?) in picture two, a beatle on a Bridal Veil in picture six (correct me if I am wrong), five and nine look like relatives. The rest of them are beyond me except for the catapiller.
Boy do I miss the river! And even though my best fishing buddy and I canoed and portaged in the Algonquin Provincial park I sure wish he would have been more adventureous. I miss the park and him both. He was a good fishing companion.
Thanks for the river pictures. I still can not get over the fact that you put on your boots and took all those late winter pictures with ice-encrusted branches.
Hi Karen – I knew after all the beautiful fall and winter photos, you would bring us spring and summer too! You give us natures spring palette and the colors are just gorgeous. Thanks so much for sharing these with us – K
The Ottawa River’s edge in full-on summer.
draw and shoot 
Karen,
Absolutely enchanting! The first and second pictures mostly, to me.
Le Clown
The first one is a wildflower I don’t ever remember seeing before.Thank you, Le Clown.
Karen
karen,
It’s wonderful, the perspective, and the fact that it’s hard to define. Really.
Le Clown
Rhythmically charming:)
Thank you, Elena. 🙂
Sensuous and sensitive images with beautifully controlled focus.
Louis, thank you very much!
Great focus, Karen!
Thank you, Graham!
Simply so charming !
Yoshizen, thank you!
I love the river (generic) but I only passed over the Ottawa once (that I know of). I saw freshwater clams on your previous posts. Have not seen many of those in the Susquehanna lately even though NY tells us it is now clean. I see one of those things that grab onto your pants (grass burdocks?) in picture two, a beatle on a Bridal Veil in picture six (correct me if I am wrong), five and nine look like relatives. The rest of them are beyond me except for the catapiller.
Boy do I miss the river! And even though my best fishing buddy and I canoed and portaged in the Algonquin Provincial park I sure wish he would have been more adventureous. I miss the park and him both. He was a good fishing companion.
Thanks for the river pictures. I still can not get over the fact that you put on your boots and took all those late winter pictures with ice-encrusted branches.
Wally, I’ve no idea what some of these are, i guess I should do a little research!
Thanks for all your interesting comments!
The first one is my favorite.
🙂
Nice!
Thanks, Al!
macro love
Yay! 🙂
I always like to see your close up shots. Love these flowers.
Jim
Thank you, Jim, that is kind of you.
Chills! 🙂
Oh, I hope that’s a good thing! Thank you. 🙂
YES!!! Like that noisy shampoo!
Noisy shampoo?!
giggling….here is the video,
Ha! 🙂
I can’t pick which one I like the most LOVE THEM ALL
Thanks for that, much appreciated!
Shooting colorful magic. Okay¡¡ Super¡¡
Carlos, thank you! 🙂
Bright and beautiful. I really like the first three and the bug one. What’s the bug?
I don’t know what kind of beetles those are, I’ll see i I can find out.
Thanks, chrysalis!
Karen – another great collection.
Thank you, Anita.
Wow – gorgeous shooting Karen!!! Love the colours, the compositions & the special elements that you managed to capture! 🙂 **
Xandre, thank you! such a lovely comment! 🙂
LOve those colours! They really pop out!
Thank you!
You’re welcome
…painting nature with your camera!
Much thanks, Marina. I like that you think that. 🙂
Beautiful images… you might enjoy the work of Mike Moats he’s a macro photographer too.
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Oh, thank you, I will check out his work. 🙂
These are wonderful.
Thank you, Michael!
Wild and beautiful. Lovely series, Karen!
Thanks, Sorin.
So beautiful karen. The fourth image down is really great. Love all this colour 🙂
Marina, thank you. some of the flowers don’t seem to mind all this heat and no rain!
amazing photographs! I have not ever looked at each of these plants or insects…
Thank you for showing them.
Thank you for commenting, I’m glad you find them interesting!
Beautiful macro-work, Karen…as always….
Thanks so much, Scott. 🙂
You are most welcome. 🙂
Absolutely beautiful photos! What camera + lense do you use?
This set of images were taken with a Nikon D7000 and a Nikkor 60mm macro lens. Thank you!
Oh gosh! This is just too beautiful! Ooh, those colours! Wonderful 🙂
Thanks so much, Gigi! 🙂
Hi Karen – I knew after all the beautiful fall and winter photos, you would bring us spring and summer too! You give us natures spring palette and the colors are just gorgeous. Thanks so much for sharing these with us – K
Thanks for visiting, Kathleen! 🙂
All gorgeous, and again the first one very much speaks to me 🙂