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Orange Tip Butterfly. Rushey Common.
Having finally given up on days of chasing them up and down the rides, this chap settles beside me and patiently waits for me to rummage the camera out of the rucksack.
Think there might be a moral there somewhere.
Yesterday was by far the warmest day so far this year so I once again walked to my local reserve. Amazingly after reaching the junction about 5 minutes from my house I only passed 2 other people (a pair walking 3 dogs) and was passed by 2 cyclists en route during the entire time.
These were the main hope of my outing and I saw 3.
This was in the reserve and the only one that settled and eventually opened its wings - though not quite fully.
Tip Toe landing... Canvasback comes in hard and soft...
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Sedum has just started to bloom in the garden, the pollinators will be glad of some late summer food.
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I found my first Orange Tips of the year yesterday including this very fresh male. I had to be patient after spotting him settle when the clouds came over, it took 30 mins before the sun reappeared and he opened his wings and flew off a few seconds later.
Night time is the right time. Hird Transport's Scania tipping asphalt on the A63 Castle Street Hull.
A pair of tiny Burnt Tip Orchids in the limestone grassland of the Derbyshire "White" Peak District.
From the bus -Grenfell Street - the smokers find any location to get their fix. Silver Efex Pro 2: Fuji Neopan ACROS 100
A job as a labourer on the Wulong Mine spoil tip is not a happy one in western eyes, but these workers are not only bemused at visitors but friendly beyond belief, apparently quite used to the many photographers that now appear from all corners of the globe to visit this most inhospitable of places. Fuxin city in Liaoning Province unfolds below as Fuxin Mining Railway 'SY' class 2-8-2 No.1195 waits for its spoil train to be dealt with in a 21st century manner, more traditional tools still being relied upon to add those final finishing touches to the mountain of waste material created over decades of deep and opencast mining. A traditional 'tuc-tuc' vehicle has found its way to the top of the tip to transport a labourer home, such vehicles being quite rare now in the Fuxin area, being replaced widespread by electric-powered vehicles, but still having the added luxury of coal-fired stoves for keeping passengers warm!. This scene, quite incredible for 2016, can surely not last for much longer in the ever-evolving China of the 21st century.
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At last!
My first butterfly photo of the year. Early in the morning a brimstone flew through my garden but this butterfly settled on the back of one of my solar sheep in early afternoon.
First Orange-tip I have managed to photograph so far this year, though they are now starting to appear in greater numbers.
Orange-tip, Anthocharis cardamines seen here on a Dead Nettle, Lamium purpureum, known as red dead-nettle, purple dead-nettle, purple archangel, or velikdenche, is a herbaceous flowering plant native to Europe and Asia. Wikipedia
DMC-G80 - ISO 200 - 1/1600sec - Lumix G Vario 12-60/D3.5-5.6 @ f/8
The chick fell off the adults back and tumbled into the water. It carried on trying to get the fish down its throat. In the end the adult ate it. The Arches, Carr Mill Dam, St.Helens, Merseyside.
Sovell Down, Dorset
Orange-tip [Anthocharis cardamines]
LEPIDOPTERA > Papilionoidea (Butterflies) >
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Sometimes natural light is more than enough.
So always also shoot some images with the available light it might be that you don't need the strobes ;)
It was worth a few nettle stings to get this shot of mating Orange Tips. The male on the left, the female on the right.
Finally put lili's leaves to good use!
(another pun) seems i've turned over a new leaf with this new series...
1. leaf veins, 2. leaf tip, curled, 3. leaf on orange, 4. diagonaleaf
part of the leaf life set
This musical phenomenon comes to Theatr Clwyd for the first time thanks to Tip Top Productions.
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot. “Prologue – Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats” additional material written by Trevor Nunn and Richard Stilgoe; ”Memory” additional material written by Trevor Nunn.
The Jellicle Cats come out to play on one special night of the year—the night of the Jellicle Ball. One by one they tell their stories to Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life. Among the candidates are the aging theatre cat, Gus; the rocker, Rum Tum Tugger; and the once-glamorous Grizabella, now but a faded memory of her former self.
Boasting a score that includes Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats, Mr. Mistoffelees and Memory, this compelling fable takes audiences to a fantastical world that can only exist in the theatre. Cats has been performed worldwide and translated into over 20 languages. The original West End production ran for 21 years and the original Broadway production ran for 18 years
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Late May to July. Widespread and frequent throughout Britain, although more local in Scotland. An unmistakable moth which closely resembles a twig from a Silver Birch when at rest.
When at rest, the wings are held almost vertically against the body with two buff areas at the front of the thorax and at the tips of the forewings which look very like the pale wood of the birch. The rest of the wings are the same mottled grey colour of the birch bark.
Occasionally the adults can be found resting in the day on a twig or the ground. They fly at night and comes to light, usually after midnight.