Focus on the tip

Chipped brush tip.

A male Orange Tip photographed in a local bluebell wood last Spring.

Burnt Tip Orchids in limestone grassland in the Derbyshire Peak District. As rare as hens teeth in the Peak District.

A freshly emerged female Orange Tip photographed last month at. Sewell Cutting in Bedfordshire.

This could easily be mistaken for a piece of Birch tree but it's a Buff-Tip moth. I love its camouflage!

Part of the entourage at the Grimaldi Service at the All Saints Church Haggerston - the annual celebration of Regency-era clown Joseph Grimaldi.

Leica Macro Elmarit R 60mm 2.8

Anthocharis cardamines

JS 6261 is in charge as another load of burning spoil is deposited on the tip at Sandaoling opencast coal mine.

My butterfly photography season is up and running, with this wonderful male Orange Tip found earlier this morning.

I think I like this.

more ggt tomorrow. funnnnnn.

I bought new shoes.

finally.

my face is dry.

I don't want to sleep yet.

It's been a good day.

wow. I am lame as shit.

The second Orange Tip of the year.

on my local patch yesterday

On 7th December 2024, Orenstein & Koppel 0-8-0 tank '11' (Works No.13216 built in 1940) of the 750mm gauge Mansfelder Bergwerksbahn, Klostermansfeld, heads away from Hettstedt for Benndorf skirting the former mine's shale tip. Formerly built to transport copper slate, coal and coke, the railway had a route network of 95 km in its heyday. After the exhaustion of the deposits, the railway was dismantled. Today, museum traffic with steam and diesel locomotives still takes place on 11.8 km of the original system.

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Pieridae

Ixias marianne – White Orange-tip

Orange-tip butterfly, one of the early spring butterflies in my garden in West Yorkshire, UK. I like this shot as you can see both sides of the wing. Taken in my garden....

April 2020

Colotis danae

A prize find on an early morning search for butterflies, insects and other natural spectacles.

A close profile view revealed some precipitation on its eyes. Here, as several other butterflies seen that morning, it was basking, intent on getting a right dose of vitamin E (or warmth) in readiness for a good day of flight and flowers.

Burnt-tip Orchids (Neotinea ustulata). Derbyshire Peak District (White Peak).

First one of these I have seen this year and this was taken near Newton Abbot Devon.

North Yorkshire UK

Two stunt planes fly wing tip to wing tip at the Stuart Airshow in Stuart,. Florida. See this, and more, on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com.

At last the Orange-tips (Anthocharis cardamines) have emerged at my local patch, which is near to Loddington, Northants (approx 600ft ASL)

Here is a rather handsome male from yesterday morning

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A female Orange Tip photographed at Sewell Cutting in Bedfordshire.

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1935 Fordson 7V tipper.

An orange tip butterfly at rest. Photographed in County Durham, UK.

Is the tip jar growing with the economy??

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28 años separan estas dos imágenes.

Parecen 28 siglos.

Y no me refiero al color, ni al tipo de película (en la primera foto ni película hay ya).

Me refiero a... dos maneras de afrontar, de enfrentarse (en este caso, a la cámara, pero vale como metáfora de la vida -todo vale como metáfora de la vida-).

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Anoche encontré estas fotos, una a continuación de la otra. El desorden en que fueron guardadas en su día creó azarosamente un orden particular, algo así como un ensayito sobre el lenguaje corporal y sus etcéteras. Especialmente sobre los etcéteras.

Pero los etcéteras dan tanto de sí (¿algún sociólogo en la sala?) que sólo voy a contar uno pequeñito, lo que recuerdo del momento en que ambas fotos fueron tomadas:

En la foto de arriba alguien le dijo a la modelo: Hace mucho que no te veo, quiero una foto tuya. Y la modelo dijo: "No se hable más".

(Nota: quien hizo la petición fue la modelo de la foto de abajo)

En la foto de abajo alguien le dijo a la modelo: Quiero recordarte siempre, déjame que te haga una foto. Y la modelo dijo: "Ya será menos".

Y etc.

Back Garden - one from a couple of days ago, unfortunately I was unable to get at right angles to him.

I photographed this female Orange Tip butterfly nectaring on Forget-me-nots in my garden yesterday. Females lack the orange tips to their forewings which makes them more difficult to find as they are easily overlooked as Green-veined or Small Whites. Its scientific name is Anthocharis cardamines. The first bit means "rejoicing in flowers" while cardamines is the scientific name of its other main larval foodplant; Cuckoo Flower.

Aurorafalter - Orange-Tip

Good tip!

I first spotted this tiny mammal sitting on top of a drystone wall, looking right at me. Of course as soon as I lifted the camera it was gone but I did get a glimpse of its' tail which was short and without a black tip.( Meaning Weasel, not Stoat ).

I gave a little squeak to see if it would come out for a second look and luckily it did !