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Tip. Looking Close...on Friday!
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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 was delighted to find this orange tip settled with wings closed towards the end of my walk. It was in an area I do not usually visit or expect to see much.
The underside of this species is very different to other butterflies in Britain and makes the male orange tip very appealing in both ventral and dorsal views.
I'm struggling to comprehend the seeming speed with which life has transitioned from manageable to the unimaginable. The preoccupation is rightly with the coronavirus itself. But ultimately the psychological aspect of longterm stress and anxiety might prove equally disabling. Each day brings an increased awareness that this is going to be a long term situation with effects that will surely outlast the virus itself. I'm clinging to daily routines in an effort to maintain mental health. But it's deeper than that. I need to feel a sense of self worth; a need to exist. There has to be more to a day than watching endless news coverage. It's important to be dialed into events, but I fear the hypnotic effect of ongoing news feeds. Balance is key right now. It will be a process of discovery for many of us as routines change, perhaps radically, as we find out how exactly we will fit into the new model. It will be a process.
We're on the verge of the vernal equinox; the first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere is Thursday. Normally a time of year filled with hope and optimism. Likely to go all but unnoticed this year. I was scrolling through an old email queue yesterday looking for a past communication. There I stumbled upon threads from exactly one year ago. They were filled with discussion of problems and issues with jobs that seemed paramount at the time, but utterly trivial now. How I wished those sorts of problems were the worst thing in life now.
The other day I noticed a very challenging astrological makeup for this week starting tomorrow, March 18. An astounding six planets will cluster in the sign of Capricorn. The indication is one of a tipping point being crossed. Perhaps a big disclosure is in the offing. The tension will remain strong through early next week. Stay safe.
After leaving Chambers Farm Wood I popped into this small reserve just to see what might be about. My main target was dragonflies but it turned out that my highlight was seeing this orange tip visiting a flower.
Orange-tip butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) (female), Buchanan Castle Golf Course, Drymen. I don't know how this photo turned out sharp, as the stalk of grass was swaying gently in the breeze. Olympus's in-camera image stabilisation is definitely superior to my Nikon.
Allow me, please, just a few words about the spot where this picture was taken.
Faliron Delta is actually the southern tip of the city of Athens and the place where the city meets the sea. As a spot of great environmental importance, it was one of the very few sites close to Athens without major constructions and buildings at the seafront. It was and still is important for the city air circulation and the renewal of the air through the sea breeze which could reach the city and its inhabitants without being obstructed. It was also important for the migrating birds which stopped at this very site on their way from the European North to the South and Africa.
Unfortunately, this huge free space was chosen as a site for the building of several courts, stadiums, buildings, marinas and general infrastructure for the occasion of the 2004 Olympic Games. The result was a big and quite violent intervention in Nature. An intervention which was only practical during the Olympics... The buildings, the stadiums and the infrastructure have not actually been used since the Olympics and only stand deserted as a monument to human shortsightedness.
There still remains free space however... although one does not see anymore the number and kind of migrating birds that used to stop there and take a break...
"Explored" on January 23, 2009. #7
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shot with an olympus om-d e-m10 mark iii and a panasonic 20mm f/1.7 mark ii lens
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my thoughts on this camera:
aarondesigns.org/Olympus-OMD-EM10-markiii-long-term-review/
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White tip reef sharks grow to about 2.5m and are harmless to humans but not so to reef fish. They are especially very thorough hunters by night.
GBR FNQ
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I'll start a little series with this one and I'll call it:
Behind The Scenes Of The Parade
Ricoh GR III
Ricoh GR Lens 18.3mm/f2.8
I WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO GO AROUND THE LAKE TAAL FROM TIP TO TIP. IT WAS A TRIP TO DETERMINE THE QUALITY OF THE WATER BECAUSE OF A RECENT FISH KILL. I HAD MY NIKON D300 AND 12-24 F/4 WITH ME. THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO VIEWED, COMMENTED AND FAVED MY PHOTOS.
First shot of the orange tip from the other evening before moving in closer, Kingcombe meadows, Dorset.
Orange tip Butterfly resting and showing the attractive underwing. Large numbers on the wing in this hot sunny Spring weather