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Cloud with power lines in the foreground. Shot on Cinestill 400D film. Nikon FM2n film camera.

Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.

-2 Corinthians 9:11

Amazing trees at Matheson Hammock Park, Miami Florida. Photographed on the classic Kodak Tri-X 400 film and the Nikon F6, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D lens.

Blue neon light line. Lomography Color Negative 800 film. Nikon F6, 50mm f/1.8D lens.

Yellow, pink, purple and blue bokeh balls made with the Nikon F80s film camera on the Nikkor 24-85mm VR G ED lens.

Bokeh balls on 35mm film

AF-S NIKKOR 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED VR

Yellow, pink, purple and blue bokeh balls.

FLOWERS ON FILM

Lomo CN 100

White and yellow flowers. Lomography Color Negative 100 film. Nikon F80s film camera with the Nikkor 24-85mm VR G ED lens.

Spaceship Earth

double exposure

Chuck Taylor All-Stars on Kodak Ektar 100 film. Nikon F80, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 D lens.

Consumer Value Store
at Night on Film

CVS pharmacy, with the Crossroads mall across the street in South Miami. Photographed on Lomography Color Negative 800 film. Nikon F6 with the Nikkor G 24-85mm VR lens.

CVS pharmacy South Miami on Lomo CN 800 film. Nikon F6, Nikkor 24-85mm VR ED G lens.

Female alligator with red lipstick. Lomography CN 100 film shot on the Nikon FM2n with the Voigtlander 40mm f/2 lens.

Openroad.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

John 15:5

Tree photographed with Black and White Kodak Tri-X 400 film. Nikon F6 with the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens.

Spaghetti with no meatball. Nikon F6 with the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens on Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400 film.

On top of spaghetti

All covered with cheese

I lost my poor meatball

When somebody sneezed.

It rolled off the table

And onto the floor

And then my poor meatball

Rolled out of the door.

It rolled in the garden

And under a bush

And then my poor meatball

Was nothing but mush.

On top of spaghetti

Making Spaghetti. Shot on the Nikon F6 with the Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens on Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400 film.

Double exposure on Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400 film

Nikon F6 film camera with the Voigtlander 40mm f/2 lens

Golden Hour light with Sunny 16

Shot on Kodak Ektar 100, I used Sunny 16 as a guide and set the shutter speed to 125 and the aperture to F/5.6. I should have used F/4 because it's slightly underexposed in the shadows.

Golden hour light on a steamboat. Kodak Ektar 100 film shot on the Nikon F80s film camera with the Nikkor 24-85mm G VR ED lens.

FLOWERS ON FILM

Lomo CN 100

County Line Rd 1200 W, Fair Oaks, Indiana. Shot on Lomography Color Negative 800 film with the Nikon FM2n film camera and the Voigtlander 40mm f/2 lens.

COUNTY LINE ROAD 1200 W
Fair Oaks, Indiana

By Sam Ortiz

How big was the largest moth you’ve ever seen?

The largest moth in North America is the cecropia. These moths are part of the silk moth family and can be anywhere from five to six inches in wingspan. Cecropias are said to be common, but you may not see them often because they are nocturnal.

Their wings are a grayish-brown color with the base of their forewings being the same red color as their bodies and having an orange stripe near the edge and an orange teardrop shape closer to the center. The edge of the forewing has a wavy white line and a black circle.

The hindwings of the cecropia look very similar except for the absence of the black dot and a white stripe directly above the orange one.

Its antennae are, just as all moths’ are, feathered. The body of the cecropia is a bright red color accented with white and dotted with black down the sides of its furry-looking abdomen.

Moths are commonly known to have scales on their wings, but what about that fur you see on some kinds’ bodies? This “fur” is actually just more scales. Research has shown that these scales can absorb sound and allow them a better chance against predators that use echolocation, like bats.

However, even if a cecropia manages to avoid death by bat, it won’t live for long. Cecropias can only eat when they are caterpillars. Cecropias, and a few other kinds of moths, lose their mouth during their metamorphosis. Cecropias cannot eat and can only live for about two weeks.

In those two weeks that a cecropia is fully grown, it only has one objective: to find a mate. Cecropias can lay up to 100 eggs in a batch, though most won’t survive until adulthood.

Cecropia caterpillars right after they hatch are black. As they go on and molt a few times, they grow in size and eventually change colors to green. Then, when they are ready, they spin their cocoon and begin the cycle again.

The life of a cecropia may not be very long, but these beautiful bugs are much more than the stereotype of the ugly and plain-looking moth everybody knows.