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This female Orange-Tip butterfly warming in the morning sun. The sunlight just back-lighting the wing pattern.
Anthocharis Cardamines.
Taken in dull conditions. A single frame handheld with no added light (except in pp). This female is sat on a dandelion seed head.
Not another Long Winged Conehead! --- but this was found in my garden yesterday woohoo. A male nymph, recently hatched and i assume born in the garden. Hoping to find it again, and more.
I found this dandelion on the front lawn and figured spring must be just around the corner - thank goodness! There was some warm sunshine and nice light catching all those tiny parachutes, which seemed to add to the spring vibe.
Looking at a dandelion through a regular lens isn't enough though, so I had to brush the cobwebs off my macro gear.
Now for a little photography tech talk - try to contain yourselves, I know this stuff is sexy.
Took this with my M4/3 60mm macro (90mm full-frame equivalent) together with a Raynox 250, giving 2.5× magnification. At that magnification the depth of field is tiny, so I focus-bracketed 10 images and let the camera stack them together.
Okay, you can settle down now ;)
It always amazes me what you can find in your own backyard, or crawling around your front lawn.
And if the dandelions are appearing, I'm calling it - spring is on the way! Yay!
Thanks for stopping by and for any comments — always appreciated!
Anthocharis Cardamines.
Another cold windy cloudy day today. Lucky to manage a couple of sharp shots despite the constant movement. Saying that, these Orange-Tips are restless in warm temperatures, rarely settling and always flighty. The current cold late spring means they often have to rest up for longer periods.
#MacroMondays - #Backlit
This little teasel is 1.5'' - so it's a real macro and was a lot of work.
Manual mode with two flashes in the back.
HMM !!!!
“When I find a ladybird, I ask the butler to take it outside, instead of killing it.” - Winston Churchill.
A macro capture, taken on the surface of a small pond. The water was completely frozen with a lot of gas bubble inclusions which, I suppose, came up from decomposing organic material on the ground.
A newly hatched dragonfly is unfolding its wings for the first time. It It has just released its cocoon down into the water of the pond. The larva climbs up this shade of grass and after 15 min it begins to move out of the cocoon. It take abut 3-4 hours, during this time the young dragonfly pumps up its body and begins to unfold the wings for the first fly which can take it high to the top of the trees.
Bluebells... otherwise known as English bluebell, British bluebell, English harebell, wild hyacinth, cuckoo’s boots, granfer griggles, witches’ thimbles, lady’s nightcap, fairy flower, cra’tae (crow’s toes) and Hyacinthoides non-scripta.
At Neroche in Taunton Deane, Somerset.
Another from the garden a few days ago. I haven't seen any for a few days now. It's freezing almost every night.