Around the entrance arch to the Fonthill Estate, Wiltshire.

All K5, 18-55, except no.3, which was with the M200 f4.

















Any C&C welcome.
Thanks for looking,

Roger.

Thanks all, for your most kind remarks.

Roger.

the seedhead, picked on yesterday morning's dog-walk.

All K5, 100mm. D FA Macro.
tripod, daylight.

Elements11.


























Any thoughts you may wish to express will be made most welcome.

Thaks for looking,

Roger.

Yesterday, after an utter failure earlier on (3.45 am!), went out last evening & snapped this:






K5, 100mm DFA Macro (!)
Stack of 10 on Combine ZP.
Elements 11.

Thanks All, for the inspiration!

Roger.

I fancy having a go at this!
Andy, at what sort of time was yours taken, & in what direction / elevation (i.e., above the horizon)?
Being in Wiltshire, I reckon it'd be about the same as in Sussex......

Roger.

As far as the halos go, I've found graduated b/gs make life v. difficult to clone them out. Plain black, white or solid colour makes it much easier.....
Any insect will reflect,
Somewhere.
Try a polariser & find the best rotational position for it by temporarily using a torch where the flash head will be...you should at least be able to eliminate the worst!

Excellent start!
Great to see you joining in, good fun isn't it!

Roger.

Thanks All, for looking & for your kind remarks!

Roger.

Thanks, Peter & Steve.

The Orange Tip pupae (for there are four of the little fellas!), are very much the same as when I last posted.....
Try as I may, I can't find anywhere an accurate prediction of how long they will take to emerge.
The problem is, usually there is one brood a year, with the pupa over-wintering, then emerging the following April/May.
In exceptional years, the very early-laid eggs undergo a sort of truncated metamorphosis, finally becoming butterflies in June /July of the same (this!) year.

So, I don't know/ cannot find out, into which scenario these that I have belong!

The first one, the one featured on my posts, hatched from the egg on 21st. April & then pupated on
8th. May, now about six weeks ago.

If anyone knows how the emergence time can be calculated, I'd be very pleased to hear!
If there's no way of knowing, & it's next year, then so be it!

I will keep you posted, as they say!

Roger.

(P.S.

This is a single shot, not a stack!

Roger.)

What Depth-of-Field?




Certainly not much here, between the lines of lens- components in the this horsefly's eye!
K5, 50 reversed on 200.
Quite a bit of PP ........

Roger.