Melanchroia chephise

Dandelion leaf

1 Orange Tip

1 Holly Blue

I saw the same down the road. Only 4 butterflies today.

In my garden 19th April 2026

A quick trip today and I heard a booming bittern and my second cuckoo of the week then got my first azure damsel for 2024 and a few other insects etc.

Many thanks to you ALL for the views, faves and comments you make on my shots it is very appreciated

www.altviewphoto.com

jssteak.picfair.com/

This one is a male as the females don't have the orange tips.

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

My first shot with my new Spectra! I think i'm in love! :)

I'd given up hope of photographing an Orange Tip this year but today (1st June) I came across this. It looks pretty fresh too. It's nectaring on Ragged Robin.

I like the way she's checking me out.

Knecht of Schwaderloch Saurer D330-B 8x4 3-way tipper parked up for the weekend at its owners depot in the canton of Aargu.

These impressive lorries with their massive hub-reduction equipped rear axles ceased production around 1982, and 40years on this one appears to still be working?

Orange tip Butterfly resting and showing the attractive underwing. Large numbers on the wing in this hot sunny Spring weather

large

Tip of a Dragonfly Wing

Phalera bucephala

My Garden 17-06-2025

Copulating Orange Tips photographed yesterday at Sewell Cutting in Bedfordshire.

Chipped brush tip.

Macro shot of the tip of an orchid. I like the texture and the contrast.

Nikon D810, Nikon 105mm, f/8, 1/125, ISO 1250. At a butterfly house. View Large.

Focus on the tip

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

flowers in my garden Christchurch New Zealand July 2019

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

Those green tips are starting to show in the garden ! Time for some macro shots !!! :-)

Explore #25 and Front Page

from near the tip of the Ards Penninsula. I had to pull over and take a few snaps but still managed to catch my ferry back

phone picture

Set the Twilight Reeling · Lou Reed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gEdbbN8VUE

This is a mating pair of buff tip moths seen in Fermyn Woods yesterday!

Many thanks to all who take the trouble to view and/or comment

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.

on it's foodplant

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Enraged seagulls swarm on a bald eagle about 200' directly above my house. The eagle could not have cared less and did not seem at all concerned.

This image is © Ian Benninghaus 2010. All rights reserved.

Phanogomphus militaris, the sulphur-tipped clubtail, is a species of clubtail dragonfly in the family Gomphidae. It is found in central North America. Source: Wikipedia

Orange-tip...male.

Anthocharis cardamines

on my local patch yesterday

In my garden

Pushing the spoil into the sunset on the high tip at the Sandaoling opencast coal mine.

Pieridae

Ixias marianne – White Orange-tip

In Tentsmuir forest this afternoon.

A male Orange-tip (Anthocharis cardamines) from this morning's session at Loddington

The back drop is a field of Dandelions

Orange-tip : Anthocharis cardamines

Family:Pieridae

Subfamily:Pierinae