The uploads for August still won’t compete with July (144) and March (126) of this year, but they will set a record for August uploads within the ol’ blogarooty, and to be honest, I have plenty of images to put up – I’m just remaining thematic right now, and saving some for a slower day. So what we have here are images from three sessions chasing Lepidoptera
Category: Photography
Tip Jar 44: Basic film developing
One of the things that I urge any serious, or even remotely serious, photographer to try is film developing. It’s a lot easier than it seems, takes minimal equipment, and is immensely gratifying. Except, there’s a caveat to all that, or perhaps several. Monochrome negative (print) developing is easy color negative is three times as involved, and color positive
Ruo afọ na-abịa, August!
Really and for true, it’s the last day of the month – I checked three times. I spent almost as much time on that as I did trying to render those characters in the title. Which is much more than I spent shooting abstract images this month, a time period best defined as, “almost nothing,” so we’re going with images from last month that are also sorting finds. Such as:
By the most remarkable of coincidences
I really, really wonder* who comes up with these holidays. I mean, seriously – this one is far too much of a FaceBlerk kind of thing, and I don’t blame anyone for ignoring it, because it accomplishes nothing**. That said, I’m in the rare position to address/celebrate it, so we’ll grudgingly recognize What Were You Doing A Decade Ago? Because exactly a decade
And the counterpart
We had that tiny fragment of a solar eclipse two weeks ago, and true to form (in this case, orbital mechanics, though what they’re doing up there is anyone’s guess,) about ten hours ago we had a partial lunar eclipse. The weather forecast had called for rain developing in the evening and continuing
Sorting finds: Peeking edition
Just (finally) got through a major sorting session, so naturally it’s time for the found images that I should have featured back when I obtained them. We have a theme for some of these, only obvious because I was going through so many images at once.
Back when doing the green heron (Butorides virescens) sessions, I snagged it peering past a lichen-covered branch, through
Lovely spring flowers… um…
Actually, it’s nice not to have all of the color coming up in May. A few of these I grabbed in passing, and a few I specifically set out the other morning to immortalize.
We’ll start with the ginger lily (Hedychium coronarium,) which we obtained years ago in an effort to make more of a habitat for the Carolina anoles, something that now sounds amusing when I say it.
Back
When last we left out heroes…
A couple of follow-ups to previous posts, because I know you’ve been dangling anxiously…
Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that would haul that tankah I mentioned in passing that I should have backlit the empty eye sockets of the molted exoskeleton of a golden silk orbweaver, because of course
Sorting captures (1?)
So, we’re all already familiar with the sorting finds, the images that I come across when sorting all of the recent photos into the appropriate folders that I then realize I should feature in a post you may wonder why I didn’t do this initially upon unloading the memory cards, but I either found something else that had a higher priority, or was too busy at the time,
Confirmation needed
Went out to the car in the evening, just as it was getting fully dark, and on my return, right alongside the front door, I heard a sharp rustle in the leaves underneath the camellia flanking the door. I took out my pocket flashlight and tried tracking the noisemaker, going around the bush carefully since this was too reminiscent of an