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Last Thursday I spent a few hours on one and the same field for the Orange Tips.
They were very active and shy, luckily I had the telelens with me. So I could keep some distance, while zooming in.
Here a male feeding from the Cuckoo Flower.
Handheld shot.
Last post for a while, going away.
Thanks to you all for your visits faves and comments.
Will fight the battle to catch up when i return.
Warmest wishes
David
I'll start a little series with this one and I'll call it:
Behind The Scenes Of The Parade
Ricoh GR III
Ricoh GR Lens 18.3mm/f2.8
First shot of the orange tip from the other evening before moving in closer, Kingcombe meadows, Dorset.
From the Asteraceae family.. this Pericallis x hybrida looks delightful.. Taken at Shaldon.. can be seen on black
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EXPLORE.. Highest position: #196 on Thursday, April 30, 2009
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shot with an olympus om-d e-m10 mark iii and a panasonic 20mm f/1.7 mark ii lens
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my thoughts on this camera:
aarondesigns.org/Olympus-OMD-EM10-markiii-long-term-review/
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White tip reef sharks grow to about 2.5m and are harmless to humans but not so to reef fish. They are especially very thorough hunters by night.
GBR FNQ
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Orange tip Butterfly resting and showing the attractive underwing. Large numbers on the wing in this hot sunny Spring weather
Burnt Tip Orchids in limestone grassland in the Derbyshire Peak District. As rare as hens teeth in the Peak District.
A rusty circa 1970s Volvo F89 4X2 rigid tipper lorry, abandoned behind a commercial vehicle workshop on the Ionian island of Kefalonia, Greece.
This could easily be mistaken for a piece of Birch tree but it's a Buff-Tip moth. I love its camouflage!
Part of the entourage at the Grimaldi Service at the All Saints Church Haggerston - the annual celebration of Regency-era clown Joseph Grimaldi.
A little more work on the tipper body and the cab interior are all that’s left to complete this model.
My butterfly photography season is up and running, with this wonderful male Orange Tip found earlier this morning.
I think I like this.
more ggt tomorrow. funnnnnn.
I bought new shoes.
finally.
my face is dry.
I don't want to sleep yet.
It's been a good day.
wow. I am lame as shit.
Phanogomphus militaris, the sulphur-tipped clubtail, is a species of clubtail dragonfly in the family Gomphidae. It is found in central North America. Source: Wikipedia
Colotis danae
A prize find on an early morning search for butterflies, insects and other natural spectacles.
A close profile view revealed some precipitation on its eyes. Here, as several other butterflies seen that morning, it was basking, intent on getting a right dose of vitamin E (or warmth) in readiness for a good day of flight and flowers.
JS 6261 is in charge as another load of burning spoil is deposited on the tip at Sandaoling opencast coal mine.
The Master III meter finally bit the dust, glass fell in which is a common fault, so although nostalgia means it is retired with honour a replacement was due.
Step forward the advance that was the following model the IV which enjoyed only a short reign from 1960 until 1963 when the model V was introduced.
Why only the IV given decent examples of all the more modern models are common but the IV, due to the short run or perhaps to photographers like me that see it's advantages, less so?
The IV was a complete redesign, new casing smaller size, lighter but more importantly higher sensitivity (an extra stop at the low end) and with the needle lock. In this model an intuitive slider, replaced by a press action, far inferior in use IMHO, in all later models. A redesigned Invercone, marked IV as it will not fit earlier models, the V invercone is the same but marked IV and V, much confusion in poorly informed e-bay sellers, beware, I had to return a IV supplied with the "correct" cone, no it wasn't it was a Model III fit.
Now rather like early M3 Leica production there seems to have been much "tinkering" during the shortish run. There are certainly two calculator dials one, as in my Serial M example, that is "simplified" ie much clearer to read but with a silver "Setting" arrow and a more "traditional" one seen in at least the Y series more like a complex slide rule with a red arrow resembling the Series III. Some models have the ASA rating, yes Weston Ratings are gone, with a ratchet type click lock others seem not to but that could be wear perhaps, on others the slide lock button works in the opposite direction, all interesting but the light still gets measured.
This one tested accurate against my "standards".
A tip for buyers is to look for one sold with a tatty or well worn case, that means, hopefully, it has been stored protected from light most of its life which is what preserves the cell. The lock by the way is often instructed to be engaged when stored, the manual says the opposite of course !!
I am more than happy with my £10 expenditure with cases for both meter and invercone and the year 1960 matches one of my favourite M2 bodies, win, win.
For the curious the red blocks against 25th 50th 100th are speeds of 30th 60th and 125th for the cameras with those speeds.