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Early to Bed Early to Rise
Trekked to Dumbo to catch the Sunrise
While I waited for the Surprise
All I Got was Cloudless Skies
This Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae marcellina) is the first emergence in our yard so this guy will be forever #1. The cassia tree that Gorboy gave me a month ago gets visited constantly. Today we have about 8 chrysalis and probably another 15-20 cats in various stages in the yard. I recently bought more host plants because the cassia tree is quickly disappearing. San Diego County, CA.
I had to include a sulphur. Anyone know the flowers? A female Cloudless sulphur at Callaway Gardens in Georgia. Have a blessed Christmas Eve!
Christmas 2018 album:
Gibbs Gardens closes tomorrow for the Winter - so we made one last trip up there. Surprised to see 6 of these big sulphurs - but I couldn't approach them (no walking on grass) and the light was glary. Still - I wanted to document what could be the LOTY. Then yesterday hubby spotted another Cloudless fluttering thru our backyard. It hit 77o in Atlanta - a record for the day. Should be warm again today.
Enjoy the Alabama/Georgia game!!
Cloudless nights provided two opportunities for photographing the Perseid meteor showers at their peak in the (mostly) dark skies of the Eagles Nest Wilderness. The radiant (point where the dust and ice from Comet Swift-Tuttle that burn up in the atmosphere appear to be emitted from) is in the constellation Perseus in the NE quadrant of the sky, in the “dim” part of the Milky Way. I was off with centering the radiant in this composition, which is a bit to the left of center.
The colors of the meteor streaks are true and not accentuated in post processing. As different elements burn in the atmosphere, they emit different colors. The Perseid particles are made up of calcium, sodium, magnesium, silicon and iron, which give the streaks the green and pink colors as they pass through the atmosphere.
This group of meteor streaks were culled from 957 photos taken during the two nights (around 80 had meteor streaks), selected for brightness and position in the sky. The green end of the meteor streak points toward the radiant in Perseus. On the horizon between the groups of conifers on the right side you can see the Pleiades (seven sisters) and Jupiter rising above the horizon. Despite the isolation of the site you can still see significant light pollution on the horizon, though I’m unsure of the source.
Cloudless Sulfur migration coincides with that of the Monarchs, something I observed with representatives of both species nectaring at flowers in my garden within the last few days. Cloudless Sulfurs have long tongues that can reach nectar inside many tubular flowers which other butterflies cannot access. They seem to prefer red flowers, fortunately despite recent frosts my red salvias are still thriving, providing nourishment for this butterfly on her long journey to the south.
The zinnia & cosmos hills @ Gibbs Gardens need another couple of weeks ... but there were still some nice butterflies posing. These big sulphurs don't pose for photos until Fall! North Georgia, last week
... And here I am again, with another photo from my last sunrise session at the beautiful, peaceful meanders of the river Adda, just downstream the Eastern arm of Lake Como, just before the river leaves the last hills to patiently delve into the Padan Plain. A little, precious world blessed with wetlands and strange, lazy bends and widenings of the river that thwart productive utilization of the area, safeguarding it.
It was just another clean, bright, absolutely cloudless sunrise (we have been experiencing mostly clean, dry weather for months now, leading to a severe drought, with the Adriatic sea flowing upstream the river Po for some 15 km as of today). Yet the early morning was gifted with a beautiful golden light that made the springy colours of the fresh buds literally burst with life.This is another detail of that amazing place I have captured by zooming in a bit, so enthralled by the beauty all around me to forget to put the lens hood on. This quiet corner of our much troubled world has the potential to heal my soul - for a while, at least. And I hope that it stirs positive feelings inside you as well - this is my gift for this weekend.
Some words about the title, that would strive for having both a literal (the weather) and a metaphorical meaning (which is totally up to you). As my fellows addicted to Douglas Adams novels would have got right in a split second, the title of this photo is related to the entry about the Earth in The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. After some 15 years or so of conscientious and extensive field research by one of its collaborators the editors, the Editors resolved to publish a somewhat drier entry:
The Earth - Mostly harmless.
Two words. Full stop. A clean, nice, simple answer to the Fermi paradox - after all, who would be interested in visiting a planet that is merely "mostly harmless"?
Explored on 2022/06/11 nr. 57
I have processed this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot).
Along the journey - post-processing always is a journey of discovery to me - I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic to give a slight tonal boost to several parts of the scene. As usual, I gave the finishing touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
Raw files processed with Darktable.
The butterfly species, Cloudless Sulphur, Phoebis sennae, has been expanding its range in California in recent years. We had not seen one over our property until about 2015, then a few more sightings as the years progressed. Our neighbor, Rich, down the street, has a mature Senna didymobotrya, African or Popcorn Senna bush, on which Cloudless Sulphurs lay eggs and he has had caterpillars in the previous two years. So we planted a Senna and in Oct., 2020 we began to see an adult flying daily through our yard, often over the 1.5 ft. Senna plant. We found the first caterpillar on Dec. 30, then two more over the next week. As the caterpillars matured, I cut the stem they were on and brought them indoors to watch them progress. Each formed a chrysalis and two of the three eclosed perfectly and eventually flew as adult butterflies.
Morro Bay, California
Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae eubule) at Patuxent Research Refuge, Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
Last post for October ... our yard has been full of butterflies on my Tithonia blossoms up to 14 ft tall! Sulphurs galore, Gulf fritillaries and one last Monarch yesterday when ATL hit 85oF. Tonight we have a frost warning - not a single butterfly today. I think the Monarch headed south on strong NW winds. Have a safe night ... from N Georgia
Cloudless 3V 1/2 | original by Nick Trotta
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Stopping to refuel on her long migratory journey to the south. This was one of my last butterfly sightings for the 2016 season. Backyard photography.
This female cloudless sulphur would fly off to a nearby tree each time I approached her on the flowers. She sat so still in the tree that even up close I had trouble finding her among the leaves. Nature's camouflage at its best!
A Cloudless Sulphur taken at Reynolds Nature Preserve, Morrow County, Georgia, USA on the 25th August 2015.
A Cloudless Sulphur butterfly (Phoebis sennae.) on a Vinca plant in my garden. A midsized butterfly in the family Pieridae found only in North and South America.
Cloudless sunrises are the horror of every photographer. However, on the opposite horizon there is usually a pastel-colored pink color that harmonized wonderfully with the snow mountains. Fortunately, this was the only day of my Iceland vacation that it didn't storm, so I was able to use the drone.
Sun is now setting just off the north shore of Hay Bay and we can just see it from our neighbours dock as it disappears below the horizon.
blogged here: djenglandphotography.blogspot.com/2020/10/photo-of-week-2...
Cloudless sunsets are generally not too spectacular, but the hazy sky over Dubai shines in the most beautiful colors about half an hour after sunset
Everything was in the right place, at the right moment. Except for clouds...cloudless sunsets are so boooring :D
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