Today in pictures

[Ryewolf90]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Welll, Ryewolf....those last shots of yours are amazing.
The detail you have captured is the kind of thing you would see in textbooks.....but they still made me go all....ooh ah, let me get away....so not cured of the insect thing....yet.

Thanks Margaret, a lot of practice and the right equipment, plus a willingness to get up close and personal with your subject. In most of these the front of my camera was between 10-15cm from my subject.

[Margaret Pilkington]

If it were not for your pictures I would NEVER get to see these insects.....I would be half a mile away puffing and panting.

[Ryewolf90]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

If it were not for your pictures I would NEVER get to see these insects.....I would be half a mile away puffing and panting.

You've probably walked past insects like this every day of your life and never noticed them. Unless you take the time to search for them and photograph them you wouldn't see them like this except for under a microscope.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes you are right, but I would not really go looking for them...so your pictures are an education....and I suppose if you can see the beauty in them....I just can't...even though they are wonders of nature and essential for the pollination of plants.

[Ryewolf90]

A jay from today, a member of the corvid family (along with Jackdaws, Magpies, Crows and Ravens), they're probably the most secretive and shy birds of all corvids...

[Margaret Pilkington]

There are some of these birds close to the Motorway in Clayton.
I have seen them but never knew they were Jays.

[Ryewolf90]

They are quite striking and colourful of all the corvids.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I thought they were some kind of pigeon...you know, a sort of upper class version.....although now having taken more notice, I can see they are not pigeons.

As I say...come to Accyweb and learn.

[Ryewolf90]

Todays Mini Beast Safari

1. Green Shieldbug - also known as stink bugs...
2. Hoverfly
3. Lacewing Larva - it's very easy to overlook these as they disguise themselves as debris, but if you look closer you can see it has legs and has viscous looking mouthparts, but they are ferocious predators...

[Ryewolf90]

Some sunsets and a moonrise taken at the Jubilee Tower on the hills above Heysham and Lancaster looking across Morecambe Bay.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Oh Yesssss!
Now those are my kind of pictures. I love them alll.....I cannot choose a favourite.
I would happily have one of those on my wall.
Brilliant.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Today I went on a ride out to Chester.(With Moving People)
It was not a particularly good day for taking pics(I really don't like my cameras being exposed to rain).....I thought that my camera would stay inside its padded case, but I DID take some pics.....can't post them tonight, they need to be resized.
Will post some tomorrow.

[Ryewolf90]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Now those are my kind of pictures. I love them alll.....I cannot choose a favourite.
I would happily have one of those on my wall.

Thanks Margaret

[Margaret Pilkington]

Here are some pictures from our very damp trip to Chester yesterday.
Thankfully it does not rain inside the Cathedral...so if ecclesiastical architecture does not float your baot...it's just too bad.....you will have to be satisfied with coffee and a couple of slices of cake(very fine it was too)

1) an ornate ceiling boss(got a crick in my neck capturing these.)
2) Stained Glass window.
3) another ceiling boss.
4) Mary and the child
5)Detail on the richly decorated ceiling.
6) The Cathedra. To be a Cathedral, there has to be a throne for the Bishop...this is it.
7) the vastness of the Cathedral
8) Haven't a clue who these figures represent...but we have affectionately termed them 'Art, Bart and Fargo.
9) Yum...afternoon tea(coffee too)
10) The altar in the cathedral.

[Exile on Spencer St]

Originally Posted by Ryewolf90

Todays Mini Beast Safari

1. Green Shieldbug - also known as stink bugs.....

He looks like he’s signalling that he’s about to turn left!