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A few of the 12 frames processed decently from the 50 year old 620 Verichrome film.
Argus Argoflex Seventy Five camera - first attempt at using it, love it.
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Argus bleu
Polyommatus icarus · Azuré commun, Azuré de la Bugrane, Petit Bleu commun
A confirmer, ou Argus bleu céleste...
(sur une Salvia Verbenaca)
The diagnostic feature for separating Brown Argus from female Common Blue, is two spots on top of one another at the top edge of the Brown Argus hindwing, creating a figure of 8 like this: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/5990925447/in/photolist But this Brown Argus that I photographed in my friend's Rutland garden, lacks this feature and so superficially resembles a Common Blue like this: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/5799969922/in/photolist The spot in question appears to be slightly comma-shaped so maybe the two spots have merged. To add to the confusion the Brown Argus was nectaring on Bird's-foot Trefoil, which is the larval foodplant of Common Blue. An additional identification feature is the marginal orange lunules on the forewing. In Common Blue they usually peter out towards the tip, whereas on Brown Argus they are solidly orange right to the tip, as they are here.
Today I found an old Argus rangefinder camera at a flea market. It's a model C44 an upgrade from the C4 that was an upgrade from the C3 (The Brick). I have a thing for cameras that were made before I turned ten years old. At any rate I didn't know anything about this camera so when I first picked it up the weight of it and the brushed aluminum finish set off a trigger I have no control over. I bought it. Once I got it home and started going through the usual tests and checks some interesting facts started to surface. First everything worked so I will be buying a roll or two of film. I found a PDF copy of the manual and more interesting things came to light. I found out how to load the film, reset the frame counter and rewind the film once all the exposures have been taken. And something else. There is a lever with an arrow on it at the base of the lens. It had me mystified. Come to find out it's a lens release switch. By twisting the lens barrel to infinity pushing the lever in the direction of the arrow and twisting the lens in a counter clockwise direction the lens comes loose from the bayonet mount. Horror!! I HAD to buy a 35mm f4.5 and a 100mm f4.5 on Ebay. How could I possibly enjoy using a camera without having all three available lenses. No big deal the entire outfit was less than $90.00. If I get any good photos out of it I'll post them.
Looking west from the floor of the Panamint Valley you can see the Argus Range of mountains,on this particular morning surrounded by layers of cloud which reached down to the valley floor,about 20 mins later this was all completely gone.
This small butterfly is characteristic of southern chalk and limestone grassland but occurs in a variety of other open habitats as far north as north Wales and Yorkshire. It is a close relative of the Northern Brown Argus, which is restricted to Scotland and northern England.
L'Argus a toujours la cote
L’Argus bleu, Azuré commun, Azuré de la Bugrane ou Petit Bleu commun (Polyommatus icarus), tout plein de noms, très commun, mais ravissant !
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L'azuré de l'ajonc : Silver-studded Blue : Plebejus argus
photograhed in the Hautes Pyrenees... elevation 1400m.
The next butterfly species is brown argus. It's been a good year for the small grassland butterflies at my local site with plenty of photo opportunities
Brown argus (Aricia agestis) butterfly perched on red clover (Trifolium pratense).
Modraszek agestis (Aricia agestis) siedzący na koniczynie łąkowej (Trifolium pretensis)/
The next butterfly species is brown argus. It's been a good year for the small grassland butterflies at my local site with plenty of photo opportunities
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John Mellencamp/Wasted Days ft. Bruce Springsteen
Saw this little butterfly in the corner of my eye, thought it was a female Common Blue at first, but then realised it was a Brown Argus, don't often see them so was really pleased to manage a couple of shots.
Canon EOS 550D EF-S55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
ƒ/5.6 250.0 mm 1/800 ISO 400