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Brimstone & White
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:13 pm
by it344x
Hello everybody,
The last day of the break we took the boys out for a walk around
Monkwood . Not the best way to photograph butterflies when you have your own young inadvertant beaters with you (
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) but we saw many shrews, mice, & butterflies including admirals, peacocks,
extremely yellow brimstones, common & wood whites and fritillaries of some type who just wouldn't sit still long enough to be identified .
Here is an image of a brimstone and wood white who spent ages whirling around each other.
http://www.mgnastro.org/gifs/bugs/brimwhite.jpg
( canon 30d with 17-85mm )
regards
Martin
(
http://www.mgnastro.org/wildlife.html )
ps. sigma 150mm is 2 months away , so nothing too close yet !
pps. how do you insert images ? I am using this code ( but with square brackets ) and it doesn't seem to work
{img}
http://www.mgnastro.org/gifs/bugs/brimwhite.jpg{/img}
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:41 pm
by Pete Eeles
Hmmm. Not sure what the problem is there Martin. I've tested at:
http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB2/v ... =3504#3504
but still don't understand why it doesn't work, and I've searched the web. Anyone out there able to help? Thx.
Cheers,
- Pete
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:17 pm
by Dave McCormick
Like that brimstone pic. How do you get shots of them flying? I only have a compact camera with an x8 zoom and a x8 digital zoom.
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 8:13 am
by it344x
Thanks Dave.
One of the advantages of my canon 30d DSLR over my compact olympus C-500 is that when you press the button it takes a picture almost instantaneously, and in high speed mode ( non RAW mode ) I can take up to about 30 shots at 5 fps as it has a decent internal buffer.
What you don't see is the 15 other out of focus shots
I'm not sure if it was the time of day ( 12:30-2:00 on a hot sunny day ) , my amateurish fieldcraft or just my kids charging about but nothing wanted to alight and be photographed really
regards
Martin
(
http://www.mgnastro.org/wildlife.html )
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 2:30 pm
by it344x
On further investigation I believe it is a male brimstone and a lady brimstone .
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:35 pm
by eccles
Yes, the white butterfly in your picture is a female brimstone. I would guess the 'fritillary' that you saw may have been a comma. They look a little like a small fritillary but have very marked sculpted edges to the wings. Monkwood is known for silver washed fritillary but there's no way these would be about yet.
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:43 pm
by Cotswold Cockney
it344x wrote:Thanks Dave.
One of the advantages of my canon 30d DSLR over my compact olympus C-500 is that when you press the button it takes a picture almost instantaneously, and in high speed mode ( non RAW mode ) I can take up to about 30 shots at 5 fps as it has a decent internal buffer.
What you don't see is the 15 other out of focus shots
I'm not sure if it was the time of day ( 12:30-2:00 on a hot sunny day ) , my amateurish fieldcraft or just my kids charging about but nothing wanted to alight and be photographed really
regards
Martin
(
http://www.mgnastro.org/wildlife.html )
Ahah ~ you're giving away 'professional' photographer's secrets there ....
Even so an exceptionally nice action shot of a couple of Brimstones in sexual pursuit.
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