As I have enough photos of them I decided to ignore this species when I see them flying or resting nearby. Yesterday evening, after sun set, I was walking through my laizzez-faire garden, when I noticed two Orange-tips on one Garlic Mustard flower. Two are special so I took my camera. I wanted a nice smile of both of them but the distance between them were too big (not uncommon between male and female). It became too dark and I decided to photograph them this morning (before I had to go to work) again. At night they probably had some little fight as I found them separated on the same flower this morning. Now they were sitting almost in one line and with a smaller aperture, I catched them both sharp. No more Orange-tips for me this season; I 'm looking forward to the butterflies I will 'meet' in a few days!
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After the heavy rain and hail showers of last Tuesday most of the Orange-tips were gone; they did not survive this action of mother nature. This guy I photographed some days before and we took a deep look into each others eyes......I assume I little bit more into his.
In five days time, a lot can change. All the Cuckoo flowers are pink now and the area is full of Orange-tips. Although I have other priorities at the moment, after two grey days I could not resist the thought that there might be a chance for a red sunset/sunrise. Entering the area yesterday evening, I immediately found a male Orange-tip in the perfect direction to the sun, unfortunately his wings were a little bit damaged due to the emerging process. While I was lying in the grass, a car stopped and two other nature photographers entered ‘my’ area. It costs me a few seconds to get used to it that it was no longer ‘my’ area and later on I learned that these two photographers will travel to Hungary in June too to photograph butterflies.......what a small world! Cause all of me
Loves all of you Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections Give your all to me I'll give my all to you You're my end and my beginning Even when I lose I'm winning Cause I give you all of me And you give me all of you © John Legend On the evening of April 1st, I checked the area with Cuckoo flowers again. Although the temperatures were nice the last days, not much Cuckoo flowers were flowering. After I walked through the two meadows for almost an hour, I did not expect to find any butterfly anymore. But, they fooled me because not much later I found at the end of the big meadow, under a tree, the first Orange-tip, a male. On my way back, on the other side, I found a second Orange-tip, a female. A good relationship often starts with some distance! The female was sitting in front of the setting sun and I had to run to my car to pick up my camera and beanbag. Although the sun was disappearing behind the forest, I was just in time to catch the last orange light. As the female was not sitting under a tree, I decided to return this morning to catch the orange light again from the opposite direction. It was a perfect morning with a lot of fog and a red sunrise. At arrival the light was blue and due to the fog the background was almost invisible. The amazing and spooky thing was that the fog suddenly vanished within a few seconds. The sky coloured pink and orange and there she was again.......the sun. It's amazing to find the first emerged Orange-tips on April 1st!
After a long day and a lot of traffic jams on my way home, I needed a break so I visited the Cuckoo Flower area this evening and I was very very happy that I found two resting Orange-tips. As the area is surrounded by woods, it's impossible to combine the butterfly with a deep red sun but with my beanbag I tried to catch a bit of the red sky.
Yesterday evening I visited an other Cuckoo Flower area and found a lot of resting Orange-tips. As it was too windy I decided to return this morning to photograph them, hopefully with a beautiful sunrise. Nearby home I found an other Orange-tip (male) resting on Forget-me-not flowers. When I woke up this morning I decided to stay around and photograph the Orange-tip on the blue flower. When I was busy I noticed that a second Orange-tip, a female, was also sleeping between the Forget-me-not flowers. A male and a female butterfly......maybe I have some luck and they will ‘like’ each other. But as it was cold and windy and both butterflies were still resting, I decided to come back later again. In the meantime I was satisfied with my photo of one resting Orange-tip on Forget-me-not. Canon 7D; tripod; remote release; 180mm, 1/160s at F3.5 and ISO200 Two hours later I returned to the place but couldn’t find any Orange-tip. I looked around and on some other blue flowers I noticed two butterflies.....yes, they had found each other!!!! After I had taken the first photo’s I noticed that they were not mating and that she was very active. He, the true Orange-tip, was sitting, sitting or resting on that flower. I observed them for a while and it was obvious that she wanted more.....she climbed around a few times, touched him with her tongue but nothing happened. She was very patience with him and I could take enough photos. Finally she gave up and flew away.....I looked at her in her flight and thought “we will never know what men really want”.
This morning I was up early and before sunrise I was driving in the fog to the Cuckoo Flower area again. Of course I did not take again the forest path but drove straight to the field and when I wanted to park my car next to the road it happened.....I lost control about my steering wheel and the complete car was sliding down to the ditch. Just in time the car stopped and when I get out I landed in thick mud. I looked at my car, the wheels and the ditch and started wondering if I will ever getting out without help. But as nature was awakening and the fog gave a mysterious atmosphere, I started searching for sleeping Orange-tips first....you never know what will happening next! Canon 7D; beanbag; angle finder; remote release; 180 mm, 1/50s and 1/85s at F3.5 and ISO100 I found some resting Orange-tips and after I was ready photographing them I walked back to my car and studied each wheel. As I have front-wheel drive I checked the mud under and in front of the wheels and decided to give it a try. With a bit acceleration I tried to reach a faster part and a few seconds later I was back on the road and very proud that I had fixed it!
Back at home I laid some carton in my car as I like to visit the Orange-tips these days again! |
Jibt dir dit Leben mal een Buff, denn weene keene Träne. Lach Dir'n Ast und setz Dir druff und baumle mit de Beene.
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