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The slag tipping at Beitai Steel Works, Liaoning Province, China January, 2012. © Photo: David Hill.
11-12-15_MG_4330 It was a treat to find one of these again, several years ago I had my only other one of this species and barely got any usable photos of it at that time.
Just as an exercise in capturing shapes and light, I was undecided as to whether to process this image but fact is the first one turned out so well I thought others may like to see this one.
Thank you for looking
A pair of tiny Burnt Tip Orchids in the limestone grassland of the Derbyshire "White" Peak District.
Sunsets make excellent opportunities for photographing hairy caterpillars such as this Buff-tip moth caterpillar, as the golden light highlights their hairs and really makes them glow.
So named because of the male's bright orange tips to his forewings. The males are a common sight in spring, flying along hedgerows and damp meadows in search of the more reclusive female which lacks the orange and is often mistaken for one of the other 'White' butterflies. The undersides are mottled green and white and create a superb camouflage when settled on flowerheads such as Cow Parsley and Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata. The male is able to hide his orange tips by tucking the forewings behind the hindwings at rest. On close examination of the mottling, the green colour can be seen to be made up of a mixture of black and yellow scales. The butterfly is found across Europe, and eastwards into temperate Asia as far as Japan.
Hello my flickr friends and a rather splendid butterfly today from one of my walks. taken at the banks Fordon
Phalera bucephala. This was quite a scruffy looking individual but from this angle it still has a certain charm to it. HMM!
Once again orange tips were the most common butterfly I saw and I still can not stop photographing them. I am however only uploading one of several shots I liked - all of males.
Garston Wood, Cranborne Chase, Dorset
Orange-tip (male) [Anthocharis cardamines]
LEPIDOPTERA > Papilionoidea (Butterflies) >
Pieridae (Pierids) > Pierinae (Whites) > Anthocharini
I shot this orange tip butterfly while out on a cool and damp walk.
It is shot using my E-M5ii and 14-42mm EZ pancake kit lens
This Orange Tip spent 3 or 4 minutes going from flower to flower, all pink such as campion and herb robert, giving me plenty of chances to capture it.
Skokie, Illinois. Fabulous sculpture outside the most mundane business strip in the world. There's a sculpture park nearby; maybe this one is in for repair.