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I couldn't afford the White Stripes Triple Inchophone, or find the Softly! Records version, so I had to settle for this! It's the HMV version of the Eightban player that was only available in their stores in the Far East (or on ebay!)!!
I had the pleasure of watching this juvenile raft spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus) run across the water surface in the water barrel and pick up a mosquito that had gotten stuck in the water and then how it ate it through the lenses of my camera. I say lenses because at first I was using the Canon 100mm f/2.8L IS plus Raynox DCR-250 and got a bunch of shots before shifting to the Canon MP-E65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro and getting a couple of really high magnification portraits.
This one was with the 100mm though and it was fascinating to see through the viewfinder how it kept moving the left and right chelicerae (one at the time) and retract one fang from the prey and then reinsert it before doing the same with the other. No idea what function this serves, but then I don’t usually eat that way.
Part 1 showing how the spider moves its chelicerae while eating here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48734313741/
Three shots of the same spider on a couple of rose petals on the water here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48506742957/, here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48684623271/ and here : www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50507089932/
Much closer shot using the MP-E here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/48515193146/
A major snowstorm is headed our way and the birds have been busy at the feeders, refueling to keep warm. Among my regular birds are the white-throated sparrows. There are two forms of the white-throated sparrow-- the boldly marked white-striped with a white and black face pattern, and the less bold tan-striped sparrow with a buff on brown face. I have both types at my feeders, although there seem to be more of the tan-striped variant than the white-striped birds. I have been noticing some interesting behavior among the tan-striped sparrows. They seem to be aggressive and chase other birds from the feeders, including their white-striped relatives. Backyard bird.
A September (of 2024) visit to my local butterfly house was a very fruitful one when it comes to new species. Even though I have visited the place like fifty or sixty times by now, I still found three or four new (for me) species.
One of those was this female cruiser (Vindula dejone), also known as the Malay cruiser, resting on the spadix of a peace lily (Spatiphyllum wallisii).
This is an Asian species with clear sexual dimorphism, ie the male and female look different. There are also more than 20 recognised subspecies, but I am unsure which one this is.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54006797755/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54061206137/
Clinging to the end of a long thin leaf hangning just ~60 cm / 2' above the floor this Lebeau's rothschildia (Rothschildia lebeau) was a very convenient moth to photograph at the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna on the northern side of Stockholm, Sweden. Not only because of the height, but also because it didn't move (being a nocturnal moth means they obviously stay as still as possible during the day).
Also, don't those antennae (and that face) look absolutely super cute?
This is a quite spectacular species with a surprisingly chubby body and beautiful silver "windows" on the wings.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51992300131/
Another shot of it showing the dorsal side of the wings here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52022135745/
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 a great songbird, 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. I photographed this little fellow in Van, Texas
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a photo of the sky and the trees through a fisheye lens.
the line in the middle of the image is from having to tape 2 pictures together because the developer (IF you can call him that) didn't print the image properly.
On top of a couple of almost completely wilted tansies (Tancetum vulgare), this juvenile raft spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus) had made itself comfortable. I initially though I had scared it away when I bumped my kne aginast the stem of the tansy, and it disappeared, but it turned out it had only hid on the far side of the flower and with a little coaxing with a finger, it was soon back in place again.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53969183975/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54191151328/
A young (as evidenced by the green legs) raft spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus) climbing around on the leaves of a raspberry shrubbery (I think) in search of some tasty bug to snack on.
A pine looper caterpillar (Bupaulus piniaria), also known as the bordered white climbing around among some actual pine needles which makes for a great comparison where we can see how good it mimics the needles.
Every summer in my mother-in-law's garden outside Härnösand, Sweden, I keep finding juvenile raft spiders (Dolomedes fimbriatus).
Just once in all the year's I've been there have I found an adult one though - which is a shame as they are about as large as spiders in Sweden get which always makes for cool shots.
This female, which jumped out of a corn/maize plant on the patio when my wife was watering it might be the closest to adult after that though.
Unlike the wolf spiders we find there all the time, she wasn't at all interested in running down in the gaps between the planks and just stayed still - which I of course immediately took advantage of and snapped away with the camera.
This is an uncropped 50 megapixel shot so you should be able to zoom in quite a lot and see some nice detail on those eyes.
Part 1, more from the front, can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52285411716/
Part 2, from the side, here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52499545556/
Pretty unsurprisingly, the female of the nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis) constructs a nursery web where the eggs she has carried around in her egg sac are hatched under her protection.
In this shot, it sure looks like she is keeping a watchful eye on the big camera lens I stuck in here face, right?
HDR? Not, lol...
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I's a cheap trick, turning reflections upside-down, but the results can be amusing. Garðskaga lighthouse in SW-Iceland.
Last Monday's visit to my local butterfly house was a very fruitful one when it comes to new species. Even though I have visited like fifty or sixty times by now, I still found three or four new (for me) species.
One of those was this female cruiser (Vindula dejone), also known as the Malay cruiser.
This is an Asian species with clear sexual dimorphism, ie the male and female look different. There are also more than 20 recognised subspecies, but I am unsure which one this is.
A closeup on the body of a female atlas moth (Attacus atlas) - pretty chonky, huh? Looking at the antennae, you'll notice they are combed wich usually is something only male moths have, but for some species, both sexes have then - though the male atlas moth has larger ones
A shot showing the entire moth here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52068556528/
The Carolina Wren is easily recognized by the white stripe above each eye and its distinctive "tail-up" posture that it assumes as it flits about the bushes. Energetic and vocal this little wren has one of the loudest songs of any small bird. Males sing their “tea-kettle-tea-kettle-tea-kettle-tea." song hundreds of times a day, all year long. One particularly busy bird was recorded singing almost 3,000 times in a single day!
Carolina wrens form lifelong pair bonds and pairs often stay together for years. The birds move and feed together, where you see one, you will usually see its mate foraging close by. The pair works together to build a nest, which can be in a tree hole or on a branch, but Carolina wrens are well known for choosing to nest in man made structures such as mail boxes, door wreaths, flower pots, or even a cardboard box in a garage. They use sticks, hair, feathers, and anything that looks suitable—even shed snakeskins. They often build multiple nests then select one to raise their chicks.
When feeding, a Carolina wren hops around on the ground and in the underbrush turning over dead leaves, and probing cracks and crannies for spiders, insects and larvae. They also eat fruit and berries, but rarely come to bird feeders.
A female lays 3-4 eggs, then incubates them for 14 days, during which time the male brings her food. The parents feed the chicks in the nest for two weeks, then, after the chicks fledge, the parents continue to feed them for a further two weeks. A pair of Carolina wrens can have three broods in a year.
This wren is the state bird of South Carolina.
I found this one in my backyard. Lake Wales, Florida.
I managed to sneak in a brief 45 minute visit to "my" butterfly house today on my way to work and I am really pleased with this shot of a rusty-tipped page (Siproeta epaphus). The bokeh came out really nice on the waterdrops on the large leaf in the background and I also think the colour combination here works surprisingly nice.
Another juvenile raft spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus), this time one which had made its home (and a small web) on one of the giant leaves of the purple angelica (Angelica gigas).
I've complained several times here when posting shots of juvenile raft spiders (Dolomedes fimbriatus) that I never seem to find any adult specimens.
Well, on Midsummer's eve (as in during the day before Midsummer's Day), me and my wife and son had a picnic by lake Långsjön in the Paradiset nature reserve on a very hot day. After eating, my son spotted a, as he put it, "very big boi" down by the waterline.
It turned out to be a male raft spider, not quite fully grown, but still a large spider.
A little while after that one, this, larger, male raft spider came walking over my wife so I managed to get a couple of shots of that one as well.
Part 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52999671762/
Part 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53017521916/
The butterfly in this photo is a rusty-tipped page (Siproeta epaphus) and in German, it is known as the Schokoladenfalter" which I really like as well as it means "chocolate butterfly". When just looking at the underside wings like here, the naming isn't that obvious, but if you have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52733475707/ I'm pretty sure you agree with both names.
I found this lovely juvenile raft spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus) happily enjoying some sort of insect for lunch while hiding between the yet unopenend flowers of a lily.
Multiple exposures are something I always think about doing but hardly ever get around to. There’s a high chance if/when I do get around to it I’ll just try and recreate this one anyway. The F2 and many other cameras make it relatively easy to achieve M.E. By pressing the rewind button on the base of the camera before advancing the film. Some older cameras don’t do anything from stopping a M.E. The Nikon F3 has a nice little lever on the advance arm that makes M.E. Much easier on a tripod.
Preserved Volvo B10M with Alexander PS bodywork in Peterborough Cambridgeshire August 2021, for that year's Key Publishing BUSFEST, held at the East of England Showground.
These are three cocktail glasses with varying amounts of water shot against a striped background to illustrate the effect of water in refracting light.
I set up my camera (or actually the tripod) a little too close to be able to fit all of this blue-banded morpho (Morpho achilles) in frame so instead I solved it by taking another shot with just the top of the wings and then joined them together into this 77 megapixel shot.
A young raft spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus) shot at 3.3:1 magnification on a snowdrop anemone (Anemone sylvestris).
The juvenile specimens can be found quite far away from water while the adults typically stay much closer to it.
I found a brother or sister of this one on one of the same flowers a little later eating a fly here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/51295607840/
The females of the common mormon (Papilio polytes) can be one of several colour forms. Most of them mimic other, unpalatable species to avoid predation, but one, Papilio polytes f. cyrus, look just like the males (which only come in one flavour).
So this one with the impressive proboscis drinking water from the floor at the Haga Ocean butterfly house in Solna, Sweden, is either a female of that form - or a male. I can't tell them apart.
My mother-in-law's garden has loads of juvenile raft spiders (Dolomedes fimbriatus) during the summer - but I extremely rarely find any adults - which is unfortunate as it is one of the largest spiders we have in Sweden.
This one, which my wife found in a potted corn/maize plant, is not yet adult, but it was still significantly larger than the regular ones.
I (by accident) scared her out of the corn/maize and she landed on the patio and tried out some sort of threat display with front legs and fangs lifted, but soon gave that up and just posed nicely for as many shots as I wanted.