All of this discussion is totally illogical to me. I have no arguement for or against, or a historical opinion... Which is where i want to be.

Hmm! Dunno, how are your abdominals, and are you blue?

My favourite is No3 which is a Guy trademark shot. With the mountains, the hills and woods, the nectaring plant, and the subject. Great stuff.

Yeh! I've been in popular places, where you have to watch your step.... Jack you wouldn't?

Oh! You two, like Greek gods warring in the heavens.

Jack, if you want to imagine me in nappies, feel free. I doubt that a sheet or a spinnaker would suffice. As for the condom story,,,, if there were two, they would have made excellent overshoes for the old chap concerned.

I agree with all that Felix, Nick, and Jack have said on this subject, and i am not a dog owner, but i quite like them, despite a childhood terror of them, after a Black Labrador jumped onto my pram when i was in infancy. Why do i not own one???? I just can't stomach the act of picking up something ...

Taken at Durlston this morning. Good numbers, some a bit worn. Lots of Dingy, and a few Grizzled Skippers. Also a Small Blue or two.

Tangled up in Blue.



Durlston Country Park near Swanage this morning.

Happy Birthday, two days late sorry. Hope you had a good one Lee.

Jack:

I for one won't be going on 28th May.

Zonda: DITTO. Once a year is puff enough.

Another shot of a GF from Sand Point last Friday. Catching up with processing backlog. :D https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_wGSRUg9JC5Q/TcgZvh1dpJI/AAAAAAAAJsU/ajJrJ8FxAzU/s640/Glanville%20Fritillary%20004.jpg And a Small Copper from Cerne Abbas. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_wGSRUg9JC5Q/TcgZc...

I get these in my garden, and shame on me, i can't remember the binomial latin. Nobilis as a species comes fleetingly to mind, but i am not really into beetles.

Hya Jack: My current butterfly lens is a secondhand Nikon 300mm f4 prime, fitted to a Nikon D300s. It lets me stand off, (four feet) and i get less flyaways. It has no optical stabilisation, but it does have monopod stabilisation. It is not a macro lens, but the lens quality lets me crop quite a lot...

Jack didn't give me time to pose properly, had i known, i'd have sucked in.

Despite the electrical storms that keep cutting off my electricity, i shall persevere with this post. Today i spent a couple of magical hours in the company of 'Grumpy' Jack Harrison. Grumpy,,,, no, informative, and knowledgable yes. He actually left me standing and gasping on the approach hill. The...

It's a great challenge, and quite a difficult discipline. I suppose the ultimate aim, would be to take a good landscape photograph with a nice butterfly included. With skies, you are going to have to get into ND grads ideally, as all landscape togs do. Is the aim front to back sharpness with the but...

The eruption of Marsh Fritillaries at Cerne Abbas , Dorset this season, has been a spectacle to behold. I sort of guessed it was going to be a fantastic season for these at Cerne, aided by the observation of huge numbers of caterpillars quite early on. Nor is it over yet, as it was difficult to avoi...

Found another small colony of Dukes at Cerne. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_wGSRUg9JC5Q/TcDw2nKGHoI/AAAAAAAAJo4/sFgnO47dhxI/s640/Duke%20of%20Burgundy%20005.jpg In the afternoon i slipped out to Kingcombe, where quite a few OTs were flying, and wonder of wonders, some of the males were settling ...

Another pocket of Dukes found at Cerne Abbas, Dorset. Six, maybe seven seen.