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When the sun decided to shine,albeit a short time,it didn't take long for these little beauties to appear. A gorgeous male Orange Tip.
Back Garden - not the most obliging with its positioning (it was fine when it landed, but moved position before I had locked focus)
If you view larger size, you can see a Goose reflected off the tip of his bill.
Focal Length: 145 mm
Another capture of male yellow tip. This one shows better the yellow (orange) tips of the wings. Females don't have the yellow color on their wing tips.
More than 50% crop of the original.
Cinnamon Teals are such beautiful ducks, and I've taken many shots of them, usually from such a great distance that I haven't posted any of them.
Some ducks were sleeping nearby the pond where I was shooting today, and I was pleasantly surprised to see one was a Cinnamon Teal. I wanted to get some nice shots of him swimming so I decreased my shutter speed to 1/1250 to bring out more detail in the darker colors.
But then he decided to fly. They are so fast that I didn't have time to increase my shutter speed. I just got lucky that this was in focus. He's one pretty duck!
Cinnamon Teal
Anas cyanoptera
Member of the Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
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Anthocharis cardamines on Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata), one of its larval foodplants, in a green lane near Starcross, Devon, England.
See my other Orange-tip photos.
The female Orange-tip lacks the conspicuous colourful wing tips of the male, but shares the beautiful camouflaged underwing pattern. I gave up chasing this one until a few minutes later when I realised she was following me instead. Then she skipped ahead and graciously allowed me a close-up portrait
Kansas City Southern's Business train is southbound on the former KCS now CPKC's Pittsburg Subdivision passing through an S-Curve just south of Richards Missouri. The train running under CPKC Symbol D40B-13 and led by KCS 1, an EMD FP9, is heading back home to Shreveport Louisiana after spending the last few days in Kansas City Missouri doing corporate events in the area.
After finding this train in Cleveland Missouri right as the sun was raising above the horizon and shooting it for the first time just south of Amsterdam Missouri the real chase began. Trying to get ahead of this train on unfamiliar territory was quite the challenge, but nothing the Nomad couldn't handle. After getting ahead of the train somewhere around Hume MO we felt we had some time to do some quick drive by scouting of some potential shots, but all were still to shadowed this early in the morning. But as we rolled through just south of Richards MO we came across a nicely lit slight S-Curve and decided this would be the best shot for the time being, since we knew the train would be showing up momentarily. About 30 seconds after the vehicle was put in park this shot was taken, then the chase continued south for another 8 hours through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
I've never really had much luck with Orange Tips until our weekend visit to Cerne Abbas. They were so well behaved in the cool conditions I had time for a few lens changes.
Back Garden - after photographing this guy on Saturday, I watched him go to roost on the Weigela. Knowing it was going to be frosty the next morning I got up early to try to get some images with frost or dew - he was still there, but he must have been sheltered under the leaf, as I can only see the frost on the Weigela.
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There is true beauty in simplicity and in my newest article I give you three quick tips for creating images which are evocative and compelling not only in what they include but also in what they exclude. In photography, and in any of the visual arts, images which are simple, yet evocative, can be particularly powerful. Please feel free to read my article at this link. I hope you enjoy!
This image: There is an infinite beauty to moving water and it can be unlocked by looking beyond what we first see. The purple of a winter evening's twilight is softly reflected in the fast moving waters of the St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Canada.
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Showing less than 1/2 inch of the tip of a #10 white nylon sable watercolor brush that has been well-used. (You might even say it has been over-used and abused...)
Macro Mondays: Less Than 1 Inch theme
Little Blue Heron [Egretta caerulea]
Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge
Collier County, Florida
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2 more photos of orange tip butterflies seen yesterday.
The only flowers that any settled on yesterday.
Victoria Vergara has just walked all the way to the longboard tip. Soon to run back for balance.
This is an infrared shot that's been heavily tweaked to have colors extracted and tuned.
On Explore 2013-07-21, highest at #1 :)