Got fed up with the Orange-tip I'd posted, so changed it for this PBF


150mm 1/160s @ f/4.0, with flash on tripod

Kind Regards,

Chris

I have a SIgma 150mm, and also the 70mm. They're both superb; I bought the shorter lens to give me options compositionally.

Went to Cardingmill Valley in Shrops today to see Green Hairstreak. No sightings yet this year, apparently, but today we spotted Orange tip, GVW, Large White, Holly Blue, ST, Peacock and Small Copper, so not a bad haul!

Chris

touché! Although if I'm being pedantic, you do actually see a blurred background at the time, you just perceive a sharp one until you focus on the background and have this confirmed. The lens of the eye is afterall no different from the lens of a camera, but the brain is VERY different from the proc...

For me, photography is a branch of art, and art is how we express a situation/image in a media removed from the original situation and image. I agree with Martin's comment... generally the more we manipulate an image, the worse it becomes. However, in the hands of a true artist, the overall image ca...

Martin, Not one for avoiding a fight... while you've improved/popped the subject of the photo, the sharpening you've done has removed the smoothness from the background. I have RAW images that are tack sharp. In my purist world, we should always endeavour to get everything right in shot and hope tha...

Well done David, you got my vote.

Oop here in the North, it should brighten this week so come the weekend, you may be able to get something. I had to go to Sicily to get my pic this month! I wish I'd taken the bleeding tripod!

Thats extraordinary Eccles... so would that info have been lost for ever if the file was converted to jpeg in camera?

My favourite is the Duke. I live a stones throw from the north eastern stronghold of the Duke of Burgundy and every year I commit tens of hours of every available day, marching up and down the woodlands of Pickering, Helmsley, Rieveaulx and other areas of the North York Moors searching for the littl...

nice! Good light! I have a BIGMA too but reserve its use for birds on a tripod... I can't seem to get the hang of it though so congrats on this!

The first Red Admiral entry...

70mm, 1/320 @ f/6.3, ISO 200, handheld


Kind Regards, Chris

And to end on a positive note Holly Blue numbers showed a real resurgence in 1989 & it received Hampshire's Butterfly of the Year Award I have an interesting theory... maybe some butterflies are much better equipped to survive the harsh conditions than their parasites. So when there is late sno...

It's been a bit quiet this weekend, so to break the silence, here are a couple of pics taken on the moors on Saturday morning. Appreciate they're not butterflies, but the lack of suitable weather is killing me. These are the first pics taken with my new camera and an old Sigma 50-500 that I struggle...

Plenty of Peacock and Tortoiseshell in Leeds today... I took a long lunch to wander around Meanwood Park. Still no frogspawn about.

he certainly looks as though he's no longer a going concern. Any statements to the contrary are now redundant, etc... ah, God bless Monty Python...

I'd begun to think the seasons were going backwards this week. The fieldfare returned to the field, the curlews have stopped piping and we had snow for 5 consecutive days! However, today I went for a walk along the disused railway and saw not one, not two, but three Small Tortoiseshell! About jeffin...

Not personally, Tracey, but read Pete Eeles' Farm Lator report here:

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/reports_farmlator.php

Regards, Chris

jealous still nothing!

That's beautiful, Lisa, and clever! I don't object to stuff like that because it's clearly artistic... you've removed the final image completely away from the original one and gained not lost anything. I'd like to see more pictures like that in the monthly competitions. What I can't bring myself to ...

"If repairing a wing, removing a grass stem, or even changing the colours of backgrounds etc. creates a more pleasing image, then so be it – artistic license is, and should be, the order of the day." I don't disagree... I just wouldn't be as happy with the image. Consider this: You obtain ...