Flickr Lounge: a favourite photo from 2019

I told myself I was not going to walk across the grass today to get up right next to the pond--I was still itching from my last encounter with chiggers, and I was going to stay on the paving today. And then this fresh new tiger swallowtail showed up, and he succeeded in luring me closer.

I like this photo not just because of what is in it, but because I succeeded in holding a camera vertical while zoomed in and while the creature moved around, and kept the camera framed the way I wanted. Often my vertical shots are cropped a good deal (I took it a lot wider frame than needed to be sure I had enough room), or I'm zoomed in too close when the creature moves and I ruin the shot because I can't readily adjust. But with this one, I cropped a tiny bit off the upper left but otherwise am posting the shot as it was taken.

Tags:   tiger swallowtail eastern tiger swallowtail swallowtail butterfly insect on flower butterfly on flower pickerelweed

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Compositionally Challenged has an "impressionistic effects" challenge this week, so I took several nature photos (making sure to include a sunflower-type photo) and ran them through funny.pho.to, choosing the "impressionism" effect under "sketches and paintings." I didn't like most of the results, but for the photos that gave decent results, I have uploaded both the original and the final results, in pairs. Some of the "impressionism" ones probably won't stay in my feed.

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Compositionally Challenged has an "impressionistic effects" challenge this week, so I took several nature photos (making sure to include a sunflower-type photo) and ran them through funny.pho.to, choosing the "impressionism" effect under "sketches and paintings." I didn't like most of the results, but for the photos that gave decent results, I have uploaded both the original and the final results, in pairs. Some of the "impressionism" ones probably won't stay in my feed.

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74/100 flowers with creatures

Dark form female. The blue was glistening so much I looked to take a photo that showed it at its best.

I've gotten way behind on posting insect photos because of so much focus on the ospreys (which still hadn't fledged as of last night).

The first week of August was far and away the most photos I have taken in any week of my life, and included six visits in six days to the osprey nest, at a spot that is also pretty good for insects. Not counting a couple hundred shots I took on request, I shot about 7300 photos the week of July 31 to August 6.

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On purple coneflower.

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