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Callen Harty
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Writer/photographer/activist. he/him/his www.callenharty.com All photos and words mine unless reposted or noted.
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Sunset over Lake Mendota. #Sunset #Lake #Sky #Clouds #Pier #Nature #Photography #LakeMendota #Madison #Wisconsin
Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin as the sun sets. The bottom third of the photo is the lake with a couple of piers in the foreground. One goes almost all the way across the photo, from left to right. The other goes about a third of the way. Just a little under center in the photo is a line of trees on the opposite shore. Above the trees is a layer of pink sky. Above that is a purple cloud. And above that is a patch of blue sky surrounded by grey clouds, with a hint of white at the top center.
January 1, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Pronghorn. #Pronghorn #AntilocapraAmericana #Antelope #AmericanAntelope #PronghornAntelope #Animal #Mammal #Nature #Photography #YellowstoneNationalPark #Wyoming
A pronghorn in the middle of a field. It is facing right, surrounded by grasses. It is mostly brown with a large white rear end and some lighter coloration on its side, neck, and the lower part of its face. There is also a black mark under its neck. Its snout is white with a black stripe on top. It has short black antlers that stick straight up from its head.
December 31, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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American snout. #AmericanSnout #LibytheanaCarinenta #CommonSnout #Snout #Butterfly #Brush-FootedButterfly #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #AldoLeopoldNatureCenter #Monona #Wisconsin
An American snout butterfly resting atop watercress or duckweed. The butterfly is facing right and is just right of center in the photo. The plants are surrounding it. Its wings are closed. The body and wings are mostly brown, but with some tan at the top of the wing and a tan line just a little below that and another swath closer to the body. A little bit of orange can be seen on the hindwing. The butterfly's mouth is elongated, giving it the name. The antennae stick out a little further than the snout.
December 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Common blue mud dauber. #CommonBlueMudDauber #ChalybionCalifornicum #BlueMudDauber #MudDauber #Wasp #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #GlacialDrumlinTrail #CottageGrove #Wisconsin
A common blue mud dauber, a type of wasp, atop a fence railing. The was is facing right. It is a metallic blue color. The head appears to be black, with long black antennae sticking out and down. The legs are also long and appear to have the metallic blue on them as well.
December 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Florida fern moths. These were on a cupboard in Wisconsin, which is outside of its normal range. #FloridaFernMoth #CallopistriaFloridensis #FernMoth #Moth #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #Monona #Wisconsin
A pair of Florida fern moths on a kitchen cupboard. The moths are mating. One is facing up, the other facing down. They have fuzzy brown bodies. The wings are spread out on both. The wings are a dark brown and when open the moth has a triangular shape. There is a white line going across the center and several white markings near the upper outer edge. There is also a thick white line at the bottom of each wing. The underwings appear grey. The head is tiny, but with long antennae reaching out to the sides. The female on the bottom of the photo is upside-down relative to the male and is also turned over, so it is viewed from the underside. It is mostly grey with white stripes across the body.
December 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Monarch. #Monarch #DanausPlexippus #Butterfly #MilkweedButterfly #Insect #Animal #ButterflyWeed #AsclepiasTuberosa #Wildflower #Milkweed #Nature #Photography #AldoLeopold'sShack #Baraboo #Wisconsin
A monarch butterfly on butterfly weed. The butterfly weed is orange and consists of clusters of multiple tiny flowerheads. The butterfly is at the very bottom of the flowers, facing up, with its wings spread wide. It is mostly orange, with thick black around the edges. The tips of the wings have a number of small orange and white dots, while the inside of the sings have several thin black stripes going through them.
December 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Ice road. These roads are created when conditions are right to get from Bayfield to Madeline Island in Wisconsin. It's a 2-mile road w/a speed limit of 15. #IceRoad #Ice #Road #Highway #CountyHighwayH #Photography #LakeSuperior #Bayfield #MadelineIsland #ApostleIslandsNationalLakeshore #Wisconsin
A road created on the ice during the winter. The road comes into the picture from the bottom right and curves to the right about a third of the way up the photo and goes out of the picture at the right about halfway up the photo. There is an SUB driving in to the photo and another vehicle coming from just past where the road leaves the photo. It is surrounded by Lake Superior. Across the lake is a line of trees with a bit of sky above it.
December 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Buffalo treehopper. #BuffaloTreehopper #StictocephalaBisonia #Treehopper #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #Wisconsin
A buffalo treehopper on a shirt. It is a bright green with yellow or white spots throughout. It has a little horn that is yellow at the tip. The wing showing at the bottom is clear. Its legs are green with yellow tips. The eyes are alternating black and yellow stripes.
December 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Pearl crescent. #PearlCrescent #PhyciodesTharos #Butterfly #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #Wisconsin
A pearl crescent on a blade of grass. The blades cuts diagonally across the center of the photo. More grass is in the blurred background. The butterfly is in the center of the photo, looking up left. Its wings are spread open. The wings are mostly orange with dark margins small brown or black markings throughout. The body appears to be a light brown. The antennae are fairly long and are in a V formation.
December 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Newman's mathildana #Newman'sMathildana #MathildanaNewmanella #Moth #ConcealerMoth #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photograhy #GovernorNelsonStatePark #Waunakee #Wisconsin
Newman's mathildana, a type of moth on a a green leaf. The moth is mostly black with two yellow stripes. Its antennae are long and sticking straight up. It is a long thin moth. The tip of the tail is yellow with a black stripe.
December 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Orange sulphur. #OrangeSulphur #ColiasEurytheme #AlfalfaButterfly #Butterfly #Sulphur #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #GovernorNelsonStatePark #Waunakee #Wisconsin
An orange sulphur butterfly on a red clover. The clover is a brilliant pink atop a tall stem, with some leaves at the bottom left of the photo. Another clover is blurred in the bottom right corner in the background. The butterfly is yellow with a line of brown dots toward the edge of the tail. It also has a couple of white spots surrounded by pink in the center of its wings. There are a couple of brown dashes on the wings just under its head and another white spot surrounded by black at the top edge. The top of its head is a fuzzy brown, and the eyes are yellow. The antennae are medium length.
December 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Green hairstreak. #GreenHairstreak #CallophrysRubi #Hairstreak #Butterfly #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #ValentiaIsland #CountyKerry #Ireland
A green hairstreak. The butterfly is facing left, but its head is turned away from the camera. As a result, the eye is barely visible and one of the antennae can be seen. It is alternating white and black up to very near the tip, where it turns all black with a small orange spot at the tip. The wings, which are closed, are a brilliant green with light brown edging with a line of small white dots just to the right of the center of the wing. It is perched atop a small blade of grass.
December 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Red and blue doors, Dublin. #RedAndBlueDoors,Dublin #DoorsOfDulbin #RedDoor #BlueDoor #Door #IrishDoors #Dublin #Ireland
The photo is of two doors on a brick building. The one on the left is slightly higher than the one on the right. The frame is white and above the door it ends in a curve. The door itself is red with the door handle on the left, a horizontal mail slot in the middle a little above the handle, and the number 31 at the top. There are a couple of steps leading up to it. The one on the right is similar, a bit lower, and is dark blue with a vertical mail slot in the middle above the center. The door handle is on the right and the number 32 is above the door. Both are on a brick building and the bricks curve around the top on both.
December 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Peck's skipper. #Peck'sSkipper #PolitesPeckius #Skipper #Butterfly #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #Wisconsin
Close-up of a Peck's skipper atop a leaf. The butterfly is facing left. It is mostly brown, but with wide tan spots on its wings. The one in the middle, toward the end of the wing, is longer and larger than the others. In the photo its wings are closed. It has a large black eye and short antennae.
December 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Ice cave. This was taken in 2014 on a hike across frozen Lake Superior to reach Sand Island. Since 2015, it has not been safe enough to walk across the ice. #IceCave #Ice #Cave #Winter #Cold #Icicle #SandIsland #ApostleIslands #ApostleIslandsNationalLakeshore #LakeSuperior #Bayfield #Wisconsin
Interior of an ice cave. The floor of the cave is sheer ice. The walls of the cave, both left and right, are also covered in ice and the floor of the cave stretches under the wall in the middle on the left. The ceiling is covered is covered with icicles. At the far right, light is coming in through the opening, which is barely visible between the two walls.
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Large lace border. #LargeLaceBorder #ScopulaLimboundata #Moth #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photography #GovernorNelsonStatePark #Waunakee #Wisconsin
A large lace border moth resting on a dark green leaf. Its wings are fully spread out. The moth is mostly an off-white color, but with a few yellowish lines crossing wings near its head and just below its abdomen. There is a thick grey line crossing near the bottom and another thinner brownish line under that. There are also two black dots near the edges of the wings over the middle line and two closer to the body under it. It has a very small head and antennae, which go out to the side.
December 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Bonaparte's gulls. #Bonaparte'sGull #ChroicocephalusPhiladelphia #Gull #SeaGull #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #NineSpringsE-Way #Madison #Wisconsin
Five Bonaparte's gulls hovering over and diving into water. Three of them are hovering over the water at the left, near the center, and at the right. There is one with its head in the water and another one just splashing into the water at the bottom. The gulls are mostly white with jet black heads, black tips on the wings, and orange legs. The one on the far left also has grey on its uplifted wing.
December 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Grizzly bear. #GrizzlyBear #UrsusArctosHorribilis #Grizzly #Bear #Mammal #Carnivore #Animal #Nature #Photography #YellowstoneNationalPark #Wyoming
A grizzly bear foraging on a hillside. Directly behind it is a large log which extends diagonally out of the photo. Around it is grass and rocks. The bear is brown, but with lighter colors on its back. Its head is down at the grass level, facing right toward the top of the hill.
December 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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My mother's hands. #Hands #Mother #Age #Aging #Photography #Shullsburg #Wisconsin
Photo of my mother's hands. Her right hand is clasped over the left one. They are thin and both show wrinkles and aging. They are resting on her body and a blanket. She passed away in 2017 at 92.
December 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Great egret. #GreatEgret #ArdeaAlba #Egret #Heron #GreatWhiteEgret #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #DisneyWorld #Orlando #Florida
A great egret standing on a post. It is an all-white bird with yellow eyes, a long orange beak, and long black legs. In the photo it is hunched with its wings up behind its head. It is looking right and is in the lower left of the photo. In the background is water. There is a paddle wheeler that has several levels. There are people standing on each level looking out the back of the boat. There is red, white, and blue bunting on the upper levels.
December 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Isola di San Giacomo in Palude Chandelier II. #IsolaDiSSanGiacomoInPaludeChandelierII. #Sculpture #Art #Sculptor #HandblownGlass #Glass #Artist #GlassArtist #DaleChihuly #Museum #MilwaukeeArtMuseum #Milwaukee #Wisconsin
This sculpture is hard to describe, It is standing on a black circle and climbing up a black pole. There is a clear glass or plastic wall around it, a few feet high, presumably so people don't get to close. It is made of multi-colored glass, which stretches out from it like tentacles, mostly orange, red, and blue. There are sound round shapes throughout the body of the piece, and same clear ones at the tips of some of the tentacles.
December 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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White-margined burrower bug. #White-MarginedBurrowerBug #SehirusCinctus #BurrowerBug #TrueBug #Bug #insect #Animal #Nature #PheasantBranchConserbatory #Middleton #Wisconsin
A white-margined burrower bug. The bug is faxeing left n the photo and is one top of a plant. It mostly black, with white showing on the body beneath the wings. It also has alternating black and white spots on the antennae, which are fairly long and split out in a V formation. There are also three white dots spaced out over the back of its head.
December 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Transverse flower fly. #TransverseFlowerFly #EristalisTransversa #TransverseBandedDroneFly #SyrphidFly #HoverFly #Fly #Insect #Animal #Photography #UniversityOfWisconsinArboretum #Madison #Wisconsin
A transverse flower fly resting on top of a wildflower. It is facing down left. The fly is mostly brown, with yellow markings on top if its body, which make it appear to be some kind of bee. The wings are transparent.
December 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Larder beetle. #LarderBeetle #DermestesLardarius #Beetle #SkinBeetle #Insect #Animal #Nature #Photograhy #Monona #Wisconsin
A larder beetle climbing up. The beetle is mostly brown with a tan band across the middle of its wings. In the middle of that band are a number of brown dots going all the way across. Its antennae and legs look reddish-brown.
December 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Christmas train. #ChristmasTrain #Train #WisconsinAndSouthernRailroad #Engine10A #Christmas #Wreath #Photography #Waunakee #Wisconsin
A Wisconsin and Southern train on the tracks, led by engine 10A. It has a Christmas wreath on the front, around the light. The logo of the railroad is beneath that. The train is mostly silver, but it is painted red at the top of the cab and the bottom corners. The red continues along the bottom on the following passenger cars.
December 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM