Guy Albertelli

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Close up of the head and forelegs of the Elegant moth, the black very furry legs and the thickly covered head with bright white stripes on both sides and a dark center line. It's on a rough wooden surface
A macro photo of a tiny moth where the wings are feather like plumes, 12 on a side with various brow and white stripes, the center body is a good size brown with 5 thin stripes along the abdomen and two very thin antenna.
A bumblebee with a very yellow head and some large people. Saca on its legs is fully inside the bright orange cup of a California poppy not fully open. Various leaves and stems of the poppies fill the rest of the frame.
On a wooden board a brightly striped moth with patches of black bordered in yellow and separated by lines of light or bright orange and a yellow furry head with three black stripe an a cap of bright orange.
Cover of a book called hand knits for men which shows two men doing something with a tool for the 60s (router? Grinder?) one is wearing a long sleeve brick red cabled sweater the other is wearing a bright white shirt and brown satin tie under a green tan a brown plaid sweater vest. Behind them is a wall of hand tools like tin snips and a saw
Three wooden spoons sitting on a black glass surface.
A wooden cabinet in a bathroom, white tile floor with the occasional black tile, wooden door, white wainscoting and a pedestal sink are visible around it
On a bradies metal wire is a brown leafy looking moth all huddled in trying to be unnoticeable.
Cherry and wenge wood mission style cabinet. Sitting in front of a workbench in a rather messy workshop.
A moth with very reduced wings that are basically just a line off of each side of the body with a smattering of patterns and colors standing on some dusty plastic with some black thing in the background. You can see the feathery edges on the wings and the spikes that decorate its leg joints.
Two sides of a cabinet mid construction one having finish applied and one not resulting in a display of the very different colors of wood the rich cherry color coming out rather that the very pale color of the raw freshly sanded wood. They lean again a drill press and table saw on a sawdust strewn cement floor.
A shallow cabinet made of cherry wood with doors and sides made out of slats of wenge in a garage assembled but not finished.
A heron standing on one foot on a wooden hand rail feather blowing in the wind. Behind is rusted barb wires and the blue of the bay water
$ white crowned sparrows, 3 female, 1 male, sitting on 3 strands of barbed wire, a small amount of a bush visible in in the bottomed right corner. The male on the top wire looks at the camera, 2 females on the middle and bottom wire look to be grooming and facing away from the camera and the final female on the bottom wire on the left is looking over their shoulder at the camera.
A Great Egret (large white heron like bird) is directly facing and looks straight at the camera with it's neck leaning to it's right in a field of mostly brown vegetation with a few bits of green.
Common godwit (heavy bodied bird with a thin straight long beak) standing in a grassy field.
A brown pelican leaps into the air, its feet pushing on the water and leaving a splash behind, it's wings are spread out as are the feathers at the tips, an immature gull sits by idly. Color wise the head is yellowish and then red at the neck
A common loon sits in a body of water, its head is turned to face the camera and your looking straight down its beak, it's face is very puffy (I assume due to subcutaneous fat) which gives it a very silly look.
In a brown wetlands, slight waves in the water in the lower left four great blue herons stand in the center of the photo in a line across the center equidistant apart. The three in the right partially hidden by the vegetation.
A Western gull (white and grey with an orange beak) stands on a rock in a field of green vegetation covered rocks (algae of some kind I assume) with some water (pacific ocean) in the foreground.
Full body shot from the 3/4 rear of a burrowing owl, it's looking at the camera as the sun light falls on the side of it's face, one foot can be seen peeking out. It's surrounded but rocks covered in a variety of colorful lichens.
A head of a Burrowing Owl can be seen squinting and staring into the camera behind a blurry rock.
A white crowned sparrow faces the camera but has it's head turned to the right. It's got a lovely brown white cap of feathers and very orange feets as it stands on some lichen covered rocks. A faint hint of green vegetation can be seen in the background to the upper right of the shot.
A reddish-browm moth with hints of blue along the fore wing edge and a few dark spots in the middle of the fore wing. It is posed on top of some pine.
Two birds in flight, on the left a crow with claws outstretched trying to grab the Red Tailed hawk on the right as it casually floats on the air.
Anna's hummingbird on a branch with a very pink iridescent head and white and black chest feathers, and such tiny cute feets.
Three coots running on top of water with fully extended wings
A yellow brown moth with translucent wings a very fuzzy thorax and a bright pink abdomen atop some wood slats.
A white moth with grey and black line decorating it's wings and a hefty fur coat around the head, it's resting on a piece of wood.
A small black and grey bird standing on a rock in water, who is very round.
Black Phoebe above some water, it mid flight trying to grab little fishes from the water and so looks like it's floating with the beak open and the tips of its beak in the water and the wings pointed back and up as it hovers. A reflection of the bird can be seen in the water below though distorted by waves.
It's a moth holding on to the rim of a clear plastic container. The moth's face and legs dominate the foreground. Its antennae can be seen tucked under its wings. The eye is large and black. The legs are mostly pale with some red color.to.some segments and black stripes. In the background is some grey cloth and a large white rectangle.
A very small baby hippo with mottled grey and pink skin lies sleepily stop the nose/mouth of the head of what is likely a parent. Baby to the right and adult on the left. They are both in a water at the edge of lake and some mud and grasses are at the bottom of the photo.
Spotted Shag coming for a landing on a cliff wall. Wings are fully stretched to the sides and curled back. Feet are also fully flared to the side.
A cascade of water, smoothed by a long exposure flanked by mossy rocks on both sides and some branches on the right.
Tiny round black and white birb perched on a branch, long thin green leaves in the background
A lamb with some darn fuzzy legs standing in some grassy green hills.
A black swan (black feathers and a red bill with a white stripe) and a tiny cygnet floating in water. The adult looks at the small cygnet.
Two bellbirds in a tree. One is singing and its tongue is fully extended.
A small back and white cormorant perched on a log surrounded by stones and water in the background
White-fronted tern in flight carrying a fish in it's beak
A red dragonfly motionless holding on to a plant.
A brown, red and white striped bird with some spectacular blue eyeshadow sits in a leafless tree surrounded by 2 inch long bone white spikes pointing at it.
Two barn swallows, one in the foreground rests on a poop crusted metal pipe with its back to us, a second in the background and not in focus is mid flight swooping from right to left wings outstretched
A white pelican stands tall atop a small log on a beach with other peicans and mallards
Two blurry blue butterflies the one on the left, with orange highlights flies along while the one on the right, with some nice black spots looks to be in heavy pursuit.
Western Flycatcher facing camera perched on a branch of an oak tree.
Face shot of a male lion caught mid-yawn so it looks like he's sticking out is tongue and saying "ahhhh." Can really make out the highly textured surface of the tongue too.
Weaver bird hanging upside down with some grass stalks in it's beak.
Cheetah in some sunny grasslands carrying some internal organs from it's kill in its mouth.
A Lilac Breasted Roller looking to the left sitting on a branch in a tree with a blue sky behind it.
Vervet monkey in a thorny tree, sitting on a branch looking to the right, tail hanging straight down.
hummingbird resting on a branch
Fairly close up shot of a Honeybee butt sticking out from a pink cherry blossom
The head of an Eared grebe staring directly at the camera.
White crowned Sparrow starting nearly at the camera sitting atop some bushes with twigs in the background.
Two cats one light brown, one dark brown striped hiding behind some cardboard looking intently to the right.
A grassy field, a dirt hole, some tools, a vertical pole