Still Cool - _TNY_3534
When I was a kid, burdocks were very cool flowers as my buddies and I found it fun throwing them on each others (or other, unsuspecting people) and watch 'em stick.
Now that I am (quite a lot) older, I still find them cool as they both look very cool in macro magnification (zoom in on those tiny magenta hooks!), but also because insects *really* love them.
They apparently taste so good that they have to stay on them eating instead of being afraid of my lens, leading to nice shots of nice insects - on nice-looking flowers!
This particular one from Åva-Stensjödal in Tyresta National Park (just south of Stockholm, Sweden) is either a silver-studded blue (Plebejus argus) or a idas blue (Plebejus idas) - I can't tell which from this shot.
The Canon 5Ds and its 50.6 megapixel sensor did a great job on the hair and scales on the head and chest of this one - and the intense colours of the woolly burdock (Arctium tomentosum) work very nicely.
Still Cool - _TNY_3534
When I was a kid, burdocks were very cool flowers as my buddies and I found it fun throwing them on each others (or other, unsuspecting people) and watch 'em stick.
Now that I am (quite a lot) older, I still find them cool as they both look very cool in macro magnification (zoom in on those tiny magenta hooks!), but also because insects *really* love them.
They apparently taste so good that they have to stay on them eating instead of being afraid of my lens, leading to nice shots of nice insects - on nice-looking flowers!
This particular one from Åva-Stensjödal in Tyresta National Park (just south of Stockholm, Sweden) is either a silver-studded blue (Plebejus argus) or a idas blue (Plebejus idas) - I can't tell which from this shot.
The Canon 5Ds and its 50.6 megapixel sensor did a great job on the hair and scales on the head and chest of this one - and the intense colours of the woolly burdock (Arctium tomentosum) work very nicely.