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Good morning everyone and I hope you had a nice weekend. I'm still playing catch-up on my 2015 butterfly pics/series with just maybe one more to go.
Featured today is the Cabbage White (Pieris rapae). A small to medium size butterfly with a wing span of 1 3/4 - 2 1/4 inches (4.5 - 5.8 cm). While normally very common here in the Midwest, it was kind of spotty this past season. And due to it's tolerance of cool temperatures it's also one of the first butterflies to emerge in the spring and the last to be seen on wing in the Fall.
As for the title, the Cabbage White in the above photo is nectaring on a wildflower with the name Hairy Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum pilosum). A wildflower I see here locally only at Lacey Pond.
Due to Cabbage Whites being spotty I had few good photo opportunities and didn't realize until putting this series together I didn't get a single open wing shot this year. As a result I dug into my files from past seasons so as to be able to include one open wing pic. Otherwise all the photos were taken in 2015.
As always, don't forget to click on "view previous comments" if you don't see the additional photos in the comment section. Even better, scroll to them by clicking on the arrow thingy to the right of the above pic. And if you want to any pic in the comment section large all you have to do is click on it where you'll also find the complete text describing this species of butterfly.
Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you have a truly great last day of November.
Lacey
ISO400, aperture f/10, exposure .001 seconds (1/640) focal length 300mm
IMAGE INFO
- The viewpoint for this historic & rare image is looking south-south-west from the northern end of Coogee Beach.
- The "bathing machines" shown here were invented & produced by Mr Harry Greenfield from about March 1885 at the Vial & Sons coach factory, Castlereagh Street, Sydney. Though similar to others already in use in England & Europe, Mr Greenfield added an ingenious shark-proof cage mechanism that bathers could keep within, if they felt it necessary.
- The machines shown here would likely have first appeared at Coogee Beach sometime during September 1886, since Randwick Council gave approval for their immediate use on Coogee Beach on 31 August 1886. Not all councillors were in favor!
- The image is therefore dated September 1886.
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SOURCE INFO
- Photographer is Henry King.
- The original silver gelatin dry plate glass negative (full plate) was digitized by the Museum of Applied Arts & Science & is available from the M.A.A.S. online collection here:
collection.maas.museum/object/31068#&gid=1&pid=1
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CREDITS
- Henry King (photographer)
- Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (aka Powerhouse Museum) New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.
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COPYRIGHT STATUS
- The original image is no longer restricted by commercial Copyright, per advice -
"Out of Copyright
Reason for copyright status: Created/Published Date is Before 1955
Material type: Photograph
Government copyright ownership: No Government Copyright Ownership".
- As for my own work in creating this unique cropped & restored sepia duo-tone version, I have applied a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivative" Copyright.
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PROCESS INFO
- I downloaded a copy of the digitized original (large file size & very faded, with a lot of cracked emulsion damage).
- Using Adobe Photoshop CS Windows, I cropped out the worst blurred & damaged top & side sections, enlarged the resulting image, then repaired much of the remaining image, removing thousands of cracked emulsion artifacts, restoring contrast, sharpness & lastly applying an adjusted sepia duo-tone curve for much better dynamic range.
- I resisted attempting to remove the remaining thousands of cracking artifacts from the sand areas & some of the water areas, since they only become a bit annoying at full zoom (my mouse recorder tells me I had made over 25,000 clicks, 10,000 zoom scrolls clicks & covered 1 km already to get the image to this stage, so I wasn't about to expend that much again for a "more perfect" result!)
I was incredibly inspired by electricsheep26354 and his custom landscapes, as well as Tamu\'s awesome Alternative Aspen Trees that look much closer to realistic aspens to me. I\'m working on adding a denser aspen forest to the rift along with new green grasses and aspens. I would have to ask lots of peoples permission to share this, so at the moment it\'s WIP. Let me know what you think.
EXPLORED
I was sitting on the top floor; it was less occupied, only ancient scrolls wrapped in sheets on wooden stacks. A young monk was chanting verses from the old text. There are statues of Buddha’s facing towards the entrance.
A bright bit of sun entered the floor illuminating the age old wooden surface. Impressions of blue falling out from the sky softly landed near the door step. Light and reflection kept a narrow distance, and in the corner dusts gently indicated their presence.
Leaving all these, my eyes wondered in the distance, to the mountains. Most of them enjoying summer, and few maintained white winter caps to look cool. The blue sky complimented them with white clouds, and the clouds gratitude the sky with dramatic formation.
A faint breeze echoed through the flying prayers carrying even fainter chime. It displaced the smell of burning candles and the smell of old paper inside the library. I closed my eyes.
Lens: EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Location: Thiksey Monastery, Leh, Ladakh, India
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Stagecoach Selkent 13015 BN14 WAJ on the 472 (it's blind still scrolling to find Thamesmead) leaves North Greenwich station. Friday 4th May 2018. DSCN45601.
Volvo B5LH - Wrightbus Gemini 3 10.5m.
During the latter part of 2019 the whole batch of thirty-two buses (13001-13032) based at Plumstead were withdrawn. All were taken on by Arriva London North becoming HV161-192.
Updated her again. She's looking as close as I can make her. Not bad for the low poly mesh.
So glad I found good hair! Wish I could dress like this in rl haha. Going to do ones of my friends now so we can have each other as followers!
The second house I build from XB-01102 was the House of Scrolls, aka the library.
In this case an even smaller building, but it even comes with a tiny walled in garden!
The entrance - I removed the banner for this picture to show the entrance better- to the building is through the garden, and it has a lovely gate with a brush as its sign.
The hole on the side is for connecting this with the other buildings. However, no Technic pins are included. And, more importantly, I think the buildings look better in a staggered line than lined up straight. And with a bit of space between them.
This calls for some 'landscaping' in the future, but for now I do not have the plates and bricks to do that.
I admit to still being completely enthralled by the shapes and patterns in the smoke. I had no idea...
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Wheaton IL, Cantigny Park, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17-40mm, f/4L
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Scrolling through my archives, Im quite surprised by how many planes, birds and other winged things I have for the new group ! HWW folks ! www.flickr.com/groups/wing_wednesday/