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Brittainy Collins
Luka Requiem
Get Behind Me Satan custom pose by Nathaniel Pevensey
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Built in 1926, the Hotel Yorba is in southwest Detroit, MI and can be seen along I-75 near the Ambassador Bridge to Canada. The building is now used as government subsidized housing. "Hotel Yorba" is the lead single from the White Blood Cells album by the local garage rock band The White Stripes, and their first single to be released commercially in November 2001. Parts of the video for the song were recorded in room 206 and on the grounds of the of the hotel. Jack White says that as a child he heard a rumor that the Beatles had stayed there—a rumor that, although false, he loved.
The Amazon Blue belongs to the Snapdragon family and originated in tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world, but it can be grown in other parts as an annual or as a houseplants. The plant develops its flowers at the top of the branches and has two petals, but the lower petal has a white stripe. In the Amazon Blues native environments it will flower for almost the full year whereas in other parts if grown outside it is only used as an annual plant.
pic for MacroMondays Theme "sweet spot squared"
HMM for everybody - HMM para todos !
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Two lands at last connected
Across the waters wide,
And all the tolls collected
On the English side.
[ Harri Webb ]
High-key processing for Sliders Sunday - HSS!!
BW conversion for "Monochrome Mondays" - obviously! ;-)
"Well its one, two, three, four
Take the elevator
At the Hotel Yorba
I'll be glad to see you later
All they got inside is vacancy"
Detroit, Michigan
This portrait depicts a juvenile raft spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus), taken at 3.9:1 magnification, eating a wet mosquito which it had just picked up from the water surface of a blue rain water barrel in the garden.
Fortunately for me the mosquito must've been very tasty because it was quite occupied with eating and let me get way closer than I could've hoped.
The raft spider is, along with its cousin, the largest spider in Sweden, but this juvenile was less than 10 mm in body length, despite looking massive here.
A shot of the very same spider, but standing on the rose petals floating on the water surface here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48506742957/
Nicley posing for me along the banks of the Chobe River.
Chobe National Park, Botswana.
Love their ears!
Southern Greater Kudu
Seen on our 2025 African safari. Here is the link to the album www.flickr.com/photos/25171569@N02/albums/72177720326025958/
iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/observations/282683955
Jenny Pansing photos
Among the various invertebrates fond of the purple angelica in my mother-in-law's garden, juvenile raft spiders (Dolomedes fimbriatus) like this one seem to be one of those who like it the most.
As they become adult, the green legs will turn into the same chocolate brown as the rest of the spider.
Here is a great eggfly (Hypolimnas bolina), in some places known as the blue moon butterfly because of the markings on the other side of the wings.
In case you want to know where the "eggfly" name has its origin, have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53347135973/
Photo taken on an early April visit to the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden in 2023.
Hunters (Poynters) WIG 2642 heads down Royal Oak Way on an afternoon school contract. All the Hunters buses now have Northern Ireland plates fitted. This is the former S272 CCD
This leopard lacewing (Cethosia cyane) sat (or stood?) on the ground at the Haga Ocean butterfly house and was the exact opposite of hidden. That orange colour is magnificiently intense - it felt like there was a small spotlight on it or something.
I had the good fortune to be able to get a couple of shots of the underside of it as well when it closed the wings and I think you're going to like those even more - crazy patterns!
As a bonus, I also got a shot or two of a female of the same species just two meters awy from this one. She has the same basic pattern, but lacks the intense orange colour.
Here's a good shot straight from the side of a peleides blue morpho (Morpho peleides).
Zoom in on that wing and you can see all the tiny scales which make up the pattern of it quite nicely.
When I see these up close, I always think the wings look like they're made from cloth.
California Bumblebee on California Poppy. In California.
Funny how that works sometimes..... :)
iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/photos/59100029
The Sara longwing (Heliconius sara) is a species which can be found in the rainforests of the Amazon basin and as far up north as parts of Mexico. This particular specimen was photographed at the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Stockholm, Sweden though.
This species practice a curious behaviour known as "pupal mating".
The chrysalids of females give of pheromones which attract males who fight for the "best" perch near them. As the female emerges from her chrysalid, one of the males will immediately mate with her.
After this, the female lay her eggs on passion flower vines which contain toxic compounds - but the caterpillars are immune to this and store the toxin, resulting in them becoming poisonous themselves as a protection against predation.
My mother-in-law has a large Flammentanz rose climbing on the side of her house. Next to it is a water barrel and here some petals from the flowers have fallen into the water.
This became a nice base of operations for a juvenile raft spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus) to run across the water surface from and pick up small insects that had fallen into the water.
Here it is some sort of mosquito which has ended its days as an early lunch for the spider.
Part one here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48506742957/
Part two here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48506742957/
Part 3 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50507089932/
A close portrait of the very same spider here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48515193146/
This beauty is known as a Sara longwing (Heliconius sara), one of the quite many butterflies which feed on the leaves of the passionflower.
In fact, they have a bit of an arms race going there. The plants developed poison which killed the caterpillars eating the leaves - until they came up with a way to not only be immune to the poison, but in fact store it within themselves, making the caterpillars in turn poisonous.
Caterpillars are no strangers to eating other butterfly eggs so female butterflies are hesitant to lay eggs on leaves which already have eggs on them as those, with a head start, will hatch before their batch and thus most likely eat newer eggs. This fact has led to the pasion flowers having leaves with little dimples on them - which look like eggs and thereby fooling the butterflies that leaf is already taken and therefore looking elsewhere for a spot for their eggs.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52751931220/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52760545555/
Some butterflies seem to accumulate many names. Like this blue wave (Myscelia cyaniris) which is also known as blue wave, blue-banded purplewing, tropical blue wave, whitened bluewing and royal blue.
It had landed pretty low on a monstera leaf at the Haga Ocena butterfly house in Solna, Sweden so I spent quite some time on my knees in front of it waiting for it to open its wings.
As you can see, this eventually did succeed and I managed to photograph that super-intense colour. The ventral side is instead really inconspicuous in a tan camouflage pattern.
Given that this is a fairly small butterfly with a wingspan of around 35 mm / 1.3" and was sitting in the shadow, I am quite pleased with the level of detail I managed to eak out here.
Amazing facial markings make the White-throated Sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) an attractive bird as well as a hopping, flying anatomy lesson. There’s the black eye stripe, the white crown, the yellow patches between the beak and eyes, and the white throat bordered by a black whisker. They’re also great songbirds, with their pretty, whistling of Oh-sweet-Canada. These sparrows breed mostly across Canada, but they’re familiar winter birds across most of eastern and southern North America and California. They also come in two colors or morphs – the white-striped and the tan-striped, which makes them even more distinctive and special. You can attract White-throated Sparrows to your backyard feeders with millet and black oil sunflower seeds on platform or tray feeders.
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This rather tall butterfly is a sara longwing (Heliconius sara). Their larvae feed on passion flower vines and have evolved through a literal arms race with the plants to be able to feed on those. Like the plants became poisonous - and the caterpillars manage to not be affected and instead store the poison, becoming poisonous themselves.
This one was photographed at the Haga Ocean butterlfy house in Solna, Sweden.
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So I was in meeting at my customer's offices for a few hours this afternoon and couldn't help but notice how the chairs in the conference room were almost perfectly matched to the colour of wall.
There was something about the colour - I love orange - and the shadows cast on the backs of the chairs that I knew this had to be my image of the day.
After the meeting ended, I waited for everyone to leave so I could discreetly capture the scene I was envisioning with my trusty Lumia smartphone. A little tweaking with the levels and detail in Lightroom and voilà! Done & dusted.
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Every year I see many juvenile raft spiders (Dolomedes fimbriatus), but very rarely do I come across an adult. Perhaps I am looking in the wrong places or something.
This however, is an adult female raft spider, guarding her young ones in the nursery web she built in a large day lily next to the garden pond.
Judging size in macro shots is alway difficult without something for scale, bu this lady was massive! Along with the cousin, the fern spider, these are the largest spiders in Sweden.
First shot of this specimen: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/22151158453
Second shot: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/29583270096
Third shot: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/29348815274/
The beautiful butterfly here is a Sara longwing (Heliconius sara), but that's not the cool thing about the shot. Zoom in on the front legs and you'll find one of the more optimistic ants I've ever seen.
It's not exactly a great shot for identifying the ant, but surprisingly good for handheld indoors in natural light. A good friend who knows his way around ants (Hi Jitte!) came up with a maybe in form of it being a pavement ant (Tetramorium sp.) so we'll go with that (as a maybe).
I highly suspect the ant came home without this prize though.
White stripes on green grass .... or is green stripes on white grass ???? After a day of gardening all the plants got a good drink of water. Captured the last drops of water on the green & white striped Ribbon Grass in my garden.
Altiplano Leste - Brasilia, DF, Brazil.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Eudaminae
Tribe: Eudamini
Subtribe: Eudamina
Genus: Chioides Lindsey, 1921
Species: C. catillus (Cramer, 1780)
Subspecies: C. c. catillus
Scientific name: Chioides catillus catillus
When trying to take photos of butterflies - the Canon MP-E65mm is both a great and an awful choice of lens. Mainly awful.
This is because the working distance is so poor - the furthest away you can be is 101 mm/4" (at 1:1 magnification) and for a shot like this one which was taken at 1.8:1 mag, it is less than 70 mm/2.75" between the front glass and the butterfly.
Obviously this is most of the times way to close for the butterfly to not fly away - but on the rare occasion when they don't, you are rewarded with a *very* sharp end result.
This is a scarce copper (Lycaena virgaureae), a species which definitely isn't the scarcest of coppers where I live - but the name originates from them previously being very scarce in the UK - and nowadays extinct there.
Shot with Canon EOS 400D + Canon 18-55mm
Somehow I didnt want to publish this. In my opinion this is pretty unspectacular and so many people did something like this before. On the other hand I love it.
The contrast and toning developed well during the postpro and so I just publish it now without further thoughts about it.
This is the last week of working for me. After that I will have three month of recreation time without working etc. I hope I can realize all the photo ideas that I have got and meet some flickrers in this time.
And I also hope that you keep following my stream. I am really thankful for all the feedback that you are giving me and I really appreciate it.
Don't stop =)
Getty
I have a question to all of you who published images of them on Getty. I contributed my images last week that means I uploaded the model releases, writing the texts, copyright note etc. and sent it to them.
Since this day nothing has happened. Those images are not on sale yet but I also dont see them in my account at contribute.getty. Does anyone of you know how long it takes until those images are on sale? I just wondered if I made a mistake or something like thta. Please help me if you can =)
One other point
A friend of mine registered on flickr some days ago. He is pretty new to photography and to flickr and he would like to have some feedback to his images.
If you have some time why don't you take a look at his stream?
Thanks!
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This is a juvenile raft spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus), photographed at 3.3:1 magnification, eating a wet mosquito which it had just picked up from the water surface of a very blue rain water barrel in the garden.
Fortunately for me the mosquito must've been very tasty because it was quite occupied with eating and let me get way closer than I could've hoped.
The raft spider is, along with its cousin, the largest spider in Sweden, but this juvenile was less than 10 mm in body length, despite looking massive here!
Part 1 (at even greater magnification) here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48515193146/
A shot of the very same spider, but standing on the rose petals floating on the water surface here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48506742957/