Marbled White Butterflies

As this morning dawned completely still, I took an early walk to local meadows to photograph Marbled White Butterflies waking up from their roost. The first six images are focus stacks of 25-40 images. It was great to have a male and female on a grass head which then moved to a carrot head to feed as they warmed up. The last two are taken with wide angle lens. 

 

The Blue Hours in Cambridge Sidgwick Site

Fifteen Members of Cambridge Camera Club met for an evening photography session around the modern buildings on the Sidgwick site. I decided to have a go at multiple exposures with different Blend modes and changing the White Balance between shots. Here are some of my favourites.

 

A Photowalk Round Cambridge

 We went into Cambridge yesterday to complete the Phototrail that Mark had set. Here are some images taken during the morning that aren't included in the set of 15 locations. The City has come out in a rash of Cows. Just three here but there are 90 cows located round Cambridge and will be there to visit until 4th September.

 

Paxton Pits Damselflies and Dragonflies

There were still plenty of Damselflies (Variable, Common Blue, Azure and Red-Eyed Damselflies), Banded Demoiselles and quite a few Dragonflies (Scarce Chaser, Common Darter, Four-spotted Chaser, Brown Hawker and Black-tailed Skimmer) at Paxton Pits this morning. We didn't see any Norfolk Hawkers during our visit.

Fen Drayton Pits

There were lots of Damselflies hanging around on an early morning trip to Fen Drayton Pits yesterday - mostly Common Blues and Blue-tailed plus the Green Drake Mayfly. Several Scorpion flies emerged from the deeper vegetation.