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Vancouver Island - 25 images - Canon 5D Mark II with Canon EF 28-135mm 1:3.5-5.6 IS USM (EOS mount) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Meanwhile, he could not hide his sorrow after losing the most precious thing of his life.
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Great to have met up with Melissa and other HK Walkers tonight. Still very full after the dinner.
A four-coloured cuckoo bumblebee (Bombus quadricolor) eating nectar on a purple flower.
If you look closely at the hind legs, you'll notice that it lacks the pollen baskets which "regular" bumblebees have. The answer is that "cuckoo" part of the name. Just like the cuckoo bird, these parasitise on other species (these on Bombus lucorum), but they take it a step further than just leaving your offspring to be raised by others. Here, she enters the nest of the other species and either chase the other queen away or outright kill her and destroy her eggs. The workers of the colony are convinced she is "their" queen using pheromones and will raise her larvae to adult bumblebees.
Because of their more violent lifestyle, cuckoo bumblebees generally have larger mandibles and stinger/veom sac and there are about 30 known species in the world and eight of them can be found in Sweden.
In pursuit of clues. You can almost hear the footsteps of the suspect coming.
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Thanks for your comments. Many commented on the blue tone. Actually I have not done much adjustment of colour tone with post processing. Like this one, apart from adding the black borders, this is pretty straight out of camera.
The secret recipe? White balance.
No one is gonna have a quiet moment to themselves when the HK Walk gang is there!
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Going out of town for a couple of days! See you soon!
This is the stairway to the Chapter House at Wells Cathedral. This is what seven centuries of footsteps will do to stone treads.
This was edited to correct for converging perspective lines.
@ Vevey, Switzerland
Vevey is a lovely little town 20 minutes away from our first stop, Montreux. You can see the snowy Alps covered by the early morning smog at the back.
緣份大概 就似花火的曲線
流動下去 滑過天涯才相見
緣份未到 讓我等到那一天
迴旋下去 木馬終端再遇見
緣份大概 未想這麼早發展
Listen to 迴旋木馬的終端
Woohoo! I got myself an early Easter present - the Canon EF 70-200mm f4L IS USM. I have seen too many brilliant work taken with this lens by my flickr contacts (you know who you are), so I have decided to join the club!
This shot was an old shot taken with the 135mm f2L.
Narcisi del mio giardino
DIVISIONE 3
A corona piccola
E’ un gruppo delizioso per
la grazia della corona,
piuttosto piccola rispetto al
fiore, spesso con margini
ondulati, quasi sempre di
colore molto vivace. Chi è
alla ricerca di narcisi
particolari trova in questa
divisione alcune delle
varietà più attraenti. Un
solo fiore per stelo
This little beauty with a blueish metallic sheen and a finely punctated elytra is a Chrysolina varians leaf beetle. The host plant is St John's wort (Hypericum sp.) but here it is sitting at the edge of a leaf of a rhodendron.
Looking closely at its feet and antennae, you can notice they are dirty with yellow pollen which is there because it sat on a different plant first but didn't like it and after opening it's elytra and displaying a wonderful pair of orange wings it flew off - right before I was about to take a shot of those wings!
Not sure if this is a guy or a girl. They are quite variable in colour and can be green, bronze, reddish or blueish black but it doesn't seem to be connected with which sex it is.