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Phalera bucephala. This was quite a scruffy looking individual but from this angle it still has a certain charm to it. HMM!
Once again orange tips were the most common butterfly I saw and I still can not stop photographing them. I am however only uploading one of several shots I liked - all of males.
I have probably as many shoes as Imelda Marcos. I don't know what it is with women and shoes. They are like little puppies. You simply find yourself picking the shoe up and next thing you know you're walking out of the store with a sales receipt in hand.
Came across these two while out for a walk on a grey day. Both perching parallel to each other on separate flowers
I shot this orange tip butterfly while out on a cool and damp walk.
It is shot using my E-M5ii and 14-42mm EZ pancake kit lens
This Orange Tip spent 3 or 4 minutes going from flower to flower, all pink such as campion and herb robert, giving me plenty of chances to capture it.
Cast upon the air like a fluttering piece of orange and white confetti, the little butterfly danced and birled above the grass and wildflowers.
It was a male orange-tip butterfly I followed its progress like a man possessed in the hope of capturing a photograph. But each time it seemed about to alight on the ground, a new zest of life filled its wings, and up on its way the butterfly went once more.
Quote from Keith Broomfield, Thecourier.co.uk
HOLY MOTHER IT'S NOVEMBER AND WE HAD THE BEST GOLDEN HOUR TODAY!
We're doing a "feet" theme in Photography so me and Meg were doing this today.
I'm really happy with life at the moment, everything is great and I'm enjoying all my subjects etc. Anyway I have a tonne of work to do so I shall bye.
The Thrift I planted has now started regularly flowering, just white flowers so far (not the pink one I expected) In the recent cold spell, I was very happy to see this butterfly has taken shelter on it.
Artist's Statement
My work is an attempt to give voice to inner psychological and/or spiritual states of being. What is of primary importance to me is that the figures contain particular aspects of humanity which they can mirror back to the viewer. It's the vulnerability of Humanity I am after. That is one reason for choosing very old or very young subjects. They both can portray innocence as well as extreme complexity.
Often they seem best portrayed as dolls. This can remove them one step from being so literal yet still allow the psychological weight. Perhaps that is something not noticed immediately yet allows the viewer easier access. To myself I can muse about the viewers engagement with them as dolls however It is the felt response I am after in every case.
A typical vaned feather features a main shaft, called the rachis. Fused to the rachis are a series of branches, or barbs; the barbs themselves are also branched and form the barbules. These barbules have minute hooks called barbicels for cross-attachment.