I guess the best advice is - don't touch :-)

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

Herten, January 2023

I like the way she's checking me out.

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

SY no. 1210 coming down off the Wulong Tip at Fuxin with a set of barely visible discharged tipper wagons on 15 November 2012.

Fuxin Mining Administration

Liaoning, China

Leica Macro Elmarit R 60mm 2.8

Anthocharis cardamines

1974 Volvo F86 bulk tipper.

DVLA have the colour as red.

Last (extended) MoT test expired in October 2020 (SORN).

Cheffins vintage and classic auction, Sutton -

"1974 Volvo F86 6cylinder diesel 6x4 Dropside Tipper. Stated to in ex-farm condition. Estimate: £7,000 - £9,000."

Sold for £6800.

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

It was years before I saw the first Russet-tipped clubtail (Stylurus plagiatus) at the wetlands - and actually found a much-rarer Laura's clubtail (S. laurae) before that. In 2016 we had a severe summer drought - and Stylurus were hanging EVERYWHERE in Aug/Sept. I saw many plagiatus on every trip and I think 4 laurae total - and lots of pals came to see them too. Giff met me at my favorite spot there and saw 19 plagiatus walking out to meet me - then the two of us saw countless more! Last year it was back to the usual scarcity: I saw 4 plagiatus on September 4th and no laurae all season - then the first week of September we had an unusual cold dip into the 50's that really shortened the wrap-up of a number of big late-season species.

This year? Damian and I spotted 2 male Russet-tipped's patrolling over the high rushing water of Little River early this month. My husband and I have looked hi & lo all month - and not spotted another Stylurus flying or perched. A typical season - especially for a wet one!

This photo is one of many I haven't posted from 2 years ago. Keeping my fingers crossed ...

Happy Dragonfly Thursday!

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.

Zeiss 50/1.4 Planar

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.

Got a cooperative Russet-tipped Clubtail at Hornsby Bend (Platt Lane area) with the help of Eric Isley

...that's my name for it...I don't know what it really is, but I thought it's worth posting it. I really liked this shot...but not sure why, because it's a little too busy...bu I guess it's the light and shadows that makes it for me. Hope you'll like it, too :))

Update: I went to the website of Butterfly World where this was taken and I found it is a Hebamoia Glaucippe...I still prefer Orange Tip...LOL :))

macro mondays... Finger tips

Orange-tip...male.

Anthocharis cardamines

www.nassio.com/empty

Showing the flexible upper mandible tip.

Taken from the East Hide at RSPB Frampton Marsh, Lincolnshire, UK.

In my garden

Pieridae

Ixias marianne – White Orange-tip

North Yorkshire UK

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.

(Anthocharis cardamines)

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

Tip 1: You Can Create Amazing Designs with Patchwork and it is very calming too!

Great Tips From Rachel Dodds

Here are a few little ideas that will help with any patchwork sewing that you do.

-Use spray starch on your fabric – this helps to stop the edges stretching and ruining your...

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Running lopsided account the right side on new 132 lb. welded rail and the left on smaller 115 lb. stick rail Niagara Falls to Toronto set of VIA RDC's with leader 6120 still in CN red on June 2, 1979.

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

Oranjetipje, Orange tip, Anthocharis cardamine

Is the tip jar growing with the economy??

taken 10-17-15 at Chowan Swamp Game Lands, NC

A female Orange Tip photographed at Sewell Cutting in Bedfordshire.

Orange-tip - male

The red crossbill or common crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. Crossbills have distinctive mandibles, crossed at the tips, which enable them to extract seeds from conifer cones and other fruits.

Adults are often brightly coloured, with red or orange males and green or yellow females, but there is wide variation in beak size and shape, and call types, leading to different classifications of variants, some of which have been named as subspecies. The species is known as "red crossbill" in North America and "common crossbill" in Europe.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_crossbill

Lazy Day, 02/14/2024, Nashville, TN

Panasonic DMC-GF2

LUMIX G VARIO 45-200/F4.0-5.6

ƒ/5.6 200.0 mm 1/160 400

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M = F . r

NO AI

Good tip!

Orange Tip (M)

settling down for the night on Garlic Mustard.