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From the Washington Trails Association:
The furthest northwest tip of the contiguous United State, Cape Flattery provides a dramatic backdrop to a surprisingly accessible hike. It's managed by the Makah Tribe, who provide permits for parking here at Washburn's General Store, The Makah Museum, and many other locations in Neah Bay. As you drive through on the way to the trailhead, be sure to purchase yours -- they're good for the year, and you can also use it for Shi Shi Beach.
From the trailhead, depart down a wide, graveled trail into open forest. Heading gently downhill, the trail narrows down to boardwalk, keeping hikers out of the worst of the mud before transitioning to rooty tread. Signs along the way encourage you to stay on the trail; please honor these. This area sees enough traffic that a spur trail can quickly impact the area in a bad way. Preserve your future visits here by remaining on trail during this visit.
Eventually, the trail returns to boardwalk, carrying you over a boggy sections as the wind intensifies. You're approaching the point. Three turnoffs exist that allow you to see views from all sides of the point. The first branches off to the left, to a viewing platform that allows you to peer down the sheer south side of the point. The second, a few hundred feet further down the trail, is a two-layered affair, where you can enjoy an expansive view north from the upper deck, and a more intimate view of the sea caves below from the lower layer.
The third and last is, appropriately, the piece-de-resistance: a viewing platform accessed via a very steep but short stepladder. Straight ahead is Tatoosh Island. A lonely lighthouse sits on the island, which is constantly buffeted by waves and wind. To the north, it's the rocks of Cape Flattery reef, while to the south it's Kessiso Rocks. Birds wing in the breeze, and the seas around here teem with life.
The constant pounding surf and the meeting of water with land here provides an ideal place for animals of all sorts to feed. As you gaze out on the Pacific, look for seagulls, cormorants, shorebirds of many other sorts, and marine animals like whales or otters playing in the surf.
When you've had your fill, return the way you came.
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.
i'm trying to learn how to do wide shots and/or colored, taking another direction (from street portraits.. but will still do more of it) :) would appreciate if you leave your inputs/tips/tricks/techniques inside the comment box.. \m/
A male Orange-tip (Anthocharis cardamines) from this morning's session at Loddington
The back drop is a field of Dandelions
I photographed this female Orange Tip butterfly nectaring on Forget-me-nots in my garden yesterday. Females lack the orange tips to their forewings which makes them more difficult to find as they are easily overlooked as Green-veined or Small Whites. Its scientific name is Anthocharis cardamines. The first bit means "rejoicing in flowers" while cardamines is the scientific name of its other main larval foodplant; Cuckoo Flower.
I nearly didn’t spot this butterfly, and in fact there were two on adjoining stems. The sunlight was weak, it was windy and it was fairly well camouflaged with the flowers because to the naked eye, its variegated patterning matched the foliage and flowers. First photo of an Orange Tip of this season although I saw one a few days ago.
Photo 22/30 April picture a day.
Photo 110/123 Variegated.
Fly-tipping is the illegal dumping of waste, and it is a real problem in many parts of the Chilterns. There is a lot of finger-pointing. Under suspicion are dodgy companies that, instead of taking waste to the official rubbish tips (and paying a small fee), unload the waste unceremoniously in the countryside - and at a huge cost to the public. Fuji X-E2.
A tip for photographers (first lesson 😉) .... make sure your lens hood is right on the lens or you will get an unwanted vignette!
It was really wind still yesterday, I used a 30 sec exposure here and as you can see the clouds barely moved during that time!
4 Misty Morning Panoramas.
This one is 4 images taken with the Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmar 100-400mm 4.0-6.3, stitched in Image Composite Editor, edited in Photoscape X
Une autre vue du Bassin Minier d'Aniche, ancien terril aménagé en parc de loisir View of an old coal tip, successfully tranformed into a recreation area. HDR, 3 raw.
After seeing a green veined white yesterday, the spring butterflies are now appearing everywhere - saw a speckled wood and several orange tips on this KWT roadside reserve (of course when he landed, he folded his wings, but you can just about spot a tiny piece of orange.)
My daughter spotted this in the garden one evening perched on a small clump of bluebells (the spanish sort!) however it was a bit too dark to do any photography, so after going out in the morning to photograph the grizzled skipper, came back and we took some shots before the sun got too high.
Best viewed very large.
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There was a forest fire burning nearby when this photo was taken, hence, the smoky background and coloring.
Back Garden - one from a couple of days ago, unfortunately I was unable to get at right angles to him.
Orange Tip Butterfly. Rushey Common.
Having finally given up on days of chasing them up and down the rides, this chap settles beside me and patiently waits for me to rummage the camera out of the rucksack.
Think there might be a moral there somewhere.
Delighted to see my first Orange-tip male Butterfly in my gdn this morning in spite of a cool wind. the underside shot was taken with a lot of zoom as it was still very mobile. Still not seeing as many butterflies as usual by this time of year & not seen any Small Tortoiseshell's, most unusual but those are reported as declining species