Project 52 - Weekly Photos - First Quarter

[Geoff F]

Week 17 - Waiting to be used again. Later in the day I met the farmer and he said they still use this old crawler on some of the steep clifftop fields.



7D with Canon 24-105 lens. 1/125 F11 Iso 200. The only available angle was standing on top of a hedge and photographing towards the hazy light.

[Geoff F]

Week 18 - Different angle on a butterfly. I have been busy photographing and recording insects over the past couple of weeks. So here is an example of a Small Pearly-bordered Fritillary



7D with Sigma 180 macro lens. 1/200 F11 Iso 400. Flash used.

[Geoff F]

And more conventional shots

[Cantab]

Week 18 - Different angle on a butterfly. I have been busy photographing and recording insects over the past couple of weeks. So here is an example of a Small Pearly-bordered Fritillary



7D with Sigma 180 macro lens. 1/200 F11 Iso 400. Flash used.

Geoff, I love this photo. My initial reaction was that the insect was cross eyed and was looking at me very angrily!

Did you take this photo in the wild or in your indoor studio? photographically the lighting, sharpness and DOF work extremely well.

[Geoff F]

It was a real life outside shot, Bruce.

That is a rather uncommon species and the first time I have found one at that site. It was sitting quite still with the wings outstretched so I took a few images; but I really needed to see the wing underside to confirm identification. It wouldn't cooperate so I tried to gently persuade it to move, but it kept settling with only the topsides visible.

Then I tried another trick which has often worked for me. Ignore the subject and turn your attention to something else. After a few minutes I saw that it was now resting in the required side view position.

After getting the side angle, I thought I might as well try a fun shot as well. I took a few others from a slight side angle to show a bit more wing with the front angle, but eventually thought the straight on view worked best.

[Geoff F]

Week 19. Which comes first, the butterfly or the caterpillar? Actually not a butterfly but a Lackey Moth caterpillar.

[Cantab]

Week 19. Which comes first, the butterfly or the caterpillar? Actually not a butterfly but a Lackey Moth caterpillar.

I've now looked at this image on my desktop monitor. It's a very good photo.

But it instantly made me think of tent caterpillars, which are frequently a real bane on our apple trees (as well as on certain other trees). So I looked up tent caterpillars as well as Lackey Moths on Wikipedia and saw that they in fact are the same genus, Malacosoma. Despite that fact, I like your photograph!

[Geoff F]

There are quite a few caterpillars who start their life by living in a group until big enough to fend for themselves.

Here is another caterpillar, a single living one. Mottled Umber moth.



I have let this first quarter of images go on for a bit too long so it is now time to start the second quarter. Maybe end up with having three 'quarters' instead of four this year?