My Greatest Ever Photograph

I've been going through some of my older photographs, taken on my old Orange San Diego, and the quality of the images has both surprised me and upset me having used my Motorola for so long now. That had an 8mp camera as opposed to the 5mp on my Moto G, but the difference is like comparing a camera from 1915 with one from 2015.

Well, I've had enough! I'm not going to get one camera. I'm going to get two. Can't go running with a chunky bridge camera, going to get a compact as well! I'm fed up of showing you substandard images.

This is probably the greatest photograph I ever took. It was up on Beacon Hill Reserve in the early summer of, I think, 2014, and was just a piece of amazing luck brought about by the corner of my eye being able to detect a tiny flutter of motion on the ground below, on what I think is a bit of the delightfully named "skunk cabbage".

These little common blue butterflies were so engrossed in their Darwinian activity, I was able to get to about 10 centimetres away from them to take a series of shots that are archived in one of my blog posts from last year, should you care to look.

I really wish I'd entered it in some kind of competition, I really do. And it was taken on an own brand budget smartphone.

Si

All text and images copyright CreamCrackeredNature 07.08.15

Blue butterflies in love. 

Butterfly Romance at Sconce Park

No small coppers or skippers in the devon-side thistles, but some male and female common blues were enjoying the day...

Female common blue grazes off a thistle

The beautiful underside is similar to the male, but the upper wing is brown rather than blue

She feeds peacefully, as elsewhere I spy a male chasing off a rival suitor

Here he comes! Beautiful deep blue upper wing

He moves in behind here

But the lady likes to be on top...

Mating Bumble Bees

Came across these two loving bumble bees on my wall. Curiously they look like they are off different species, but probably aren't. I like this pic.