You've been a star. Thanks.

Clearly struggling. Sorry guys.

Jack

Attempting upload for first time.

Canon S3 IS + 2 diopeter lens.

28 linear crop.

Jack

Perhaps I aim too high. This taken today S Cambs. It's about 2/3 crop and then resized. This is pretty much as good as I can get with the S3

http://www.itadvice.co.uk/weatherjack/BrownArgus.jpg

Sorry to do it as a link but can't work out how to sumbit a photo direct.

Jack

The RAW hack has been deleted with the comments: "user is banned from forums"

So I guess it was an idea that was just TOO good.

Jack

Many thanks, That's all pretty much what I do although haven't looked at the RAW hack - will do that. The minimum distance except at wide angle is 90 cms - that is a real pain and something I hadn't realised when I purchased. So I quickly saw the need for a supplementary lens. I don't use the same l...

Every piece of reasonably large grassland habitat seems to have Brown Argus this year in extrememly good numbers. Totternhoe, Ivinghoe, Devils Dyke, Burwell, etc. Today not 400 metres from home I found 6 or 7 in a locality where I hadn't seen them during the previous 15 years I have lived here (Sout...

I see that "eccles" uses a Canon S3 and his results are far better than mine using the same camera. I got my S3 a few months ago and although it has some very good features - eg the image stabilization and zoom range - I struggle with the focus. He doesn't seem to have that problem. I have...

Excellent numbers Saturday 2 June Wicken Wood Northants/Bucks, with sightings at frequency of about one per two minutes or better. Sometimes as many as three butterflies together. But they were almost impossible to photograph in the hot sunshine. They never stopped (timed one male for over 5 minutes...

I can now only make 25th

Jack Harrison

On lavender in garden. Not totally dormant - it was making small movements. Length fully stretched circa 3.5 cms. Colour reasonably accurate in photo.

Jack
http://www.itadvice.co.uk/weatherjack/unknown_larva.jpg

I remember an afternoon circa 1963 or 64 when I found dozens of Silver Washed Fritillaries in the Oakley Wood part of the complex. I never found a single individual on return visits. However in the early 1970s there was a thriving colony of Pearl Bordered Frits and a small, but persistent colony of ...

At risk of going over old ground, I could make 11th, 18th or 25th so would prefer the day when most people can attend. I believe both Roger from Devon and Colin can make 11th so that would make three of us. But it would certainly be better if we could drum up others. I have an idea. We could always ...

At present, there are better showings of snowdrops than I can recall. This might suggest that the weather this winter has been ideal. It could also mean that it has been good too for hibernating butterflies (and of course, ova, larvae and pupae if that’s how they hibernate) and they have not, as is ...