Welcome to my photo blog!
I'm Elaine and I love nature photography. I'll take pictures of all sorts of things--landscapes, textures, plants....and most of all I love bugs! (Maybe they're not most of the pics, but please do expect them)
I live in the US, currently Virginia, previously Indiana, so many of my pictures are from these two areas. I named my blog after coastal Virginia, which is incredibly full of swamps and marshes
I've been taking photos since I was young, able to steal the camera from my parents whenever we traveled somewhere. As an adult with my own camera I've found refuge from daily life hiking in places big and small. Bugs became my favorite subject quickly. They're all around us, and if I lost track of one of them, there's bound to be another within a few feet. I was driven to learn more about bugs, and in turn seek them out even more on my outings
Rarely I might post pictures of dead things. I don't intend to have anything particularly gory, but just a heads up. They'll be tagged "#dead animal" if it's anything more than clean bones (#bones will be tagged too)
All photos are mine unless stated otherwise (and reblogs of course)
