Had a nice shoot with Curt (AllHarts) yesterday at Holly Springs (private garden on Route 311).

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A superb solitary mature Sycamore tree silhouetted against a cloudless and cold blue winter sky, at Thorpe, Teesdale

During the journey through to Venice I´ve taken this photo from the cloudless layers behind a church.

Cloudless but still beautiful

Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) male nectaring Salvia, 4/29/2023, Landings Sparrow Field “Pollinator Garden Berm”, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Ga,

The Day Ball sinking into the sea in a completely cloudless sky last night, as seen from Alderney - I am heading to Marrakesh next week - keep watching!

#alderney #sun #sunset #sunrise #cloudless #sea #travel #horizon

Went out with the Flickr Focus landscape group. Not a cloud in the sky... Still, was good to be out and to catch up with the group.

Thanks Ray for lending me your 10 stop.

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The male is the brighter individual. Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Mission, Hidalgo County, TX.

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

this was shot about 20 minutes before the sun would rise above the horizon -- Sunday, September 29, 2019 -- Sony a99 & Minolta Maxxum AF 28 mm 2.8

Taken soon after sunrise on Cannon Beach, Oregon. Zero cloud action unfortunately but a nice lowish tide reflection to make this an OK pic for the records...

"I wanted to belong to the cloudless sky

Not to the shaded ground"

-Riverside - Caterpillar and the Barbed Wire

Canon AE-1 Program

Canon Lens FD 1:1.8 50mm

Kodak Kodachrome 25

Processed in modified K14

Process described here:

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...cloudless morning down at Spittal - was just on my way to bed at 3am when I looked out and saw a deep glow on the horizon and took a wander down before my bed got too tempting!!

A cloudless sunset at Lepe beach. I'd like to go down again when the tide is out to try some different compositions

I thoroughly enjoyed this build. This shot captures several reasons for this. :)

Yard Shots. 8/16/09.

Phoebis sennae on a purple salvia.

Midtown Tulsa, OK

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a Sony A7RV full frame mirrorless camera packing a 200-600mm Sony lens. These are not macro photo but am hoping that I can learn how to make this new camera sing. This is a 61mp camera and is full frame. It is equipped with AI and a ton of other features that I will likely never use. It can be set to function as an APS-C camera as well, but I don’t intend to use it in that manner. I’ll be cropping the photos that I take and preliminary indications are that the details are still there with the frame and I can extract what I want to from the photo and still have more detail remaining in the photo. The previous Nikon and Fuji cameras never returned the type of photos that I wanted and so they were traded in for this setup. I in no way blame those cameras, but other people seem to get incredible results with them, but this ex-Sony man could never make those cameras sing. I only hope that I get decent results with this setup. It’s also a return to Sony, which I grew up with. Almost. Sony purchased Minolta and that was the camera I started with in 1975. Only time will tell if I have made the right decision.

Cloudless Sulphur on Turk’s Hat at El. Franco Lee Park (The garden of good and evil…my name for the garden at the park). The first photo is full frame and uncropped, while the second photo is a cropped portion of another photo, but they were both taken from roughly the same distance. Hope you enjoy.

I’ll try to get to everyone’s posts shortly.

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(Phoebis sennae)

Within a sea of flowering Senna, we found several of these colorful sulphurs.

With so many adults fluttering about, it was easy to determine the I.D. of these vibrant little caterpillars.

This yellow-phased one had most likely been munching on a few flowers.

Calvert Cliffs State Park

Lusby, Maryland

September 4, 2017

sunset in kuwait! kind of :)

Marshy Point Nature Center, Chase, Md.

Gunpowder Neck Quad 39076_C3

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Blowing Rocks Preserve, Jupiter Island, FL

After making all the effort and getting up at 4:00 am to shoot the sunrise at Blowing Rocks I felt I had to upload at least one photo even if it's not the most spectacular one. Looking through all my shooting sessions there (I think this was my 6th or 7th) I am getting less and less clouds. So the next one should be good, you can't have less that no clouds, so there should be some nice clouds then...

This boring shot looks a bit better when viewed large on black or you can view the complete set on black.

PS: For anyone who is planning on going, there seem to have been some incidents in the park so the police is enforcing the "open from sunrise-to-sunst" policy. The cop I had a run-in with wanted to kick me out first, but after I told him that I came all the way from Miami to take photos of the sunrise he let me stay. He probably thinks I am the biggest nutcase ever (who else gets up at 4:00 am, drives 80+ miles to take pictures of a sunrise), but not a crazy vandal or junkie or whatever suspicious subjects they have to deal with there.

This is our first official yard butterfly and it showed up in our blooming azaleas. Our azaleas shouldn't be blooming till April - which begs the question - is Augusta icing their azaleas??

We went to Callaway Gardens yesterday and all of their azaleas were in peak bloom - way early! Forsythia & flowering quince were in late bloom with azaleas and the first dogwoods - these don't usually bloom at the same time. Butterflies were everywhere and the most common were Cloudless sulphurs. If you live up North and love butterflies - hop a plane to Georgia and check out Callaway. It feels like summer down here.

We also saw a few foty species yesterday: Red admirals, S. Skipperling, Checkered skipper, Red-banded hairstreaks and two black swallowtails flew by plus odes: Stream cruiser, Rambur's forktail, Blue corporals.

Happy Butterfly Monday !!!

p.s. our pollen count this morning is 8,164 ... I've never seen it that high

Explore #457 for March 19, 2012 - thanks for the heads up!

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Phortographed in the Dixon Gardens in Memphis.

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Rollei Superpan 200 shot with Leica Ic, Voigtlander (Cosina) 21mm Color Skopar and Orange No. 21 filter. Developed in Adox FX-39II for 13 minutes at 68° F.

My first picture of a Cloudless Sulphur! I have been seeing them on occasion but never had one perch. This beauty settled into the boxelder. Hanging under the leaf it became almost invisible.

I can't stand cloudless sunrises... But I'm bored, so here's the one from this morning.

These butterflies are quite large and found mainly in the southern US.

It’s another beautiful day for pollinators at the BCAS Butterfly/Pollinator Garden in Leonia, NJ 🐝🐞

In one day, the following species were spotted:

1. Fiery Skipper (Hylephila phyleus)

2. Blue -Winged Scoliid Wasp (Scolia dubia)

3. Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)

4. Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus)

5. Small “Cabbage” White (Pieris rapae)

6. Cloudless Sulfur (Phoebis sennae)

7. Monarch (Danaus plexippus)

8. American Lady (Vanessa virginiensis)

9. Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)

10. Broad-Winged Skipper (Poanes viator)

The BCAS garden in Overpeck Park in Bergen County New Jersey is a butterfly / pollinator habitat restoration project using all native plants, paid for entirely by Bergen County Audubon Society and generous donations from the public. It’s open and free for all to enjoy and intended to educate everyone on the wonders of the natural world in our area in Northern New Jersey.

The BCAS garden in Overpeck Park

Leonia, NJ 8/2024

Nikon D500

Reminder: Give Wildlife Space - Make sure to bring binoculars or a camera with a telephoto lens, and give our wildlife the respect they deserve by not going near them.

There's a real-time, annotated construction video on YouTube in three parts. Part 1 includes components like the prongs, intakes, and engine @ youtu.be/ovNaaGRgwFQ. Part 2 has the cockpit and core frame @ youtu.be/WwHBxMFclbQ. And Part 3 has the final assembly and stand @ youtu.be/goD3HdeG63o.

I amped my usual build-ups: there's enough detail on YouTube to recreate the fighter and I provided voiceover. Let me know if you find re-use for some component, or make your own full variation. :)

The music in this lightning-speed cut is from Gradius V.

Cloudless Sulphur at Point Cherokee Park

Clear skies over Portsmouth, NH. The decks are pretty quiet this time of year, with the occasional onlooker checking out the tugs. It's a great chance to explore the city if you are trying to avoid the mad summer rush.

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Green Valley, Az. Sept. 2024.

On Saturday 14/8/2021, 1401s (empty 1rail grain to Crystal Brook loop) is seen approaching Simpkin road (3km’s north of Two Wells, SA) with CLP8-G533 providing plenty of power.

Cloudless aerial sunrise calm seas at Macmasters Beach on the Central Coast, NSW, Australia.

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Bright yellow butterfly, the Cloudless Giant Sulpher Phoebis sennae in my garden. Nov. 2018

Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly on thistle.

Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) male nectaring Lamiaceae, Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana), 9/2/2018, The Landing's, Skidaway Island, Savannah, Chatham Co., Ga.