A macropterous male Long-Winged Conehead.

“Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.” ~ Kahlil Gibran

"It's not what we have in life, but who we have in our lives that matters"

Crazy Tuesday, Happiness is...

Satyridae

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Cœur d'anémone

Echium vulgare

“Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.” John Muir

Backlit Pristine Clouded Yellow found nectaring on Fleabane at RSPB Pulborough down the Zig-Zag.

I had great fun trying to get a shot of this very mobile butterfly,they never land for long,continuously flying between the large flower beds at Pulborough,sometimes disappearing, only to reappear a little while later.After many failed attempts,and many rubbish shots I got this backlit image with defocused highlights behind him.

Please view large...thanks

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Thread the needle, something that seems to get more difficult with each passing year. It was miserable outside so I decided to shoot a little macro inside.

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"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." ~Oscar Wilde

He's very fascinated with the hourglass, I had to turn it over for him at least 20 times :)

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

~Martin Luther King Jr.

A tiny spider on a hazel leaf... enjoying some autumn sun.

“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. – Aristotle

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Hyles euphorbiae

I'm almost certain this is the Lesser Marsh Grasshopper

Yellow is not an in-between color, you're either all in or you're not. ~Mobolaji Dawodu

A loose ivy leaf snagged on a rock. In the millstream at Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset.

“Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.” – Lau Tzu

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. ~Frank Herbert

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Image © 2018 Nicola Riley

Mirando al amo

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Spring flowers at Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset.

It was once thought that you could use lesser celandine to predict the weather as they close their petals before raindrops. The leaves are high in vitamin C and have been used to prevent scurvy. - The Woodland Trust.

The Long-Winged Conehead (conocephalus discolor) appear in two forms, the normal winged form and an extra long winged form called macropterous.

The numbers of macropters in a population increases with density and also at more northern latitudes. This enables the spreading of the species as these longer winged forms can hold sustained flight 3 times further than the normal form, roughly 1.5mi as opposed to 0.5mi.

This image is of a macropterous Long-Winged Conehead.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Charles de Lint

Captured this weekend at RSPB Pulborough.

Backlit Adonis,using on camera reflector to lighten the shadows ....picking out the amazing iridescent scales on the base of the wings.Taken in the pre-dawn light before the risen sun.

Worth looking at large to see the individual scales....thanks.

Floating on the millstream at Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset.

Working through some old folders.

Conocephalus discolor, also called Conocephalus fuscus. Long-winged Conehead - a Bushcricket.

This image is of an adult female Long-Winged Conehead.

Pommes et anémones

My textures

Rusting horseshoes on a window ledge at Mill Farm, Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset.

In camera stacking

My first season macro-photo

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms. George Washington Carver

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. – Thich Nhat Hanh

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. ~Jiddu Krishnamurti

The yellow advance guard of spring.

Cotoneaster salicifolius 'Parkteppich'

Feuilles de 2 à 4 cm

Baies de la taille de petits pois

“You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.” – Captain Beefheart

Dogs don't make judgments about physical appearance or abilities, and they don't care how big your house is or what you do for a living. They care about the quality of your character and your capacity to love. ~Elizabeth Eiler, Reiki Master

The obligatory, annual bluebell shot.

On the farm at Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset.