Too Dark, Use a Flash
Olympus cameras can’t handle the darkness. Even a cloudy day messes them up. So Crumby dug up the flash yesterday, stuck it on the camera with the Sigma 150mm and headed out to the east pasture to see how long he could tote that combo before photo elbow set in. Photo elbow is probably much like tennis elbow and maybe just as sissy.
I got to pace myself, Crumby thought, otherwise this gear shall wear me out sooner than anon. Plus I could hurt my elbow. Crumby wondered, does average amateur photography become aerobic, the more weight you add to yourself?
Yes. The gear was heavy. Similar loads have unbalanced and crashed commercial airliners. (Plus, nobody ever survived an airliner crash like that). But Crumby struggled on, attempting to ignore the searing pain that afflicted his elbow every time he lifted the camera to his eyeball. Dang it, my arm hurts. Dang it, Ah caint get my eye close enough to this dang view finder. Why do I have a Neanderthal brow ridge? Why caint ah have a normal brow ridge like everyone else?
Yes. Crumby often queried the WG concerning this or that affliction, inherited from Crumby’s long gone progenitors. Yea verily while Crumby did thus converse one way with the WG, he also took a picture or two. Here some of those are, all with the flash.
pearl crescent (Phyciodes tharos) - There is a rumor going around that flash may permanently damage the eyes of butterflies. That, if true, is bad. Crumby would need to stop using flash on his little friends.
All righty. Here is a phaon crescent for comparison. The contrast in the cell color of the median band is what I use to separate this from the pearl crescent. Typically the median band here is almost white, whereas in the pearl crescent it is always more similar in color to the rest of the lighter colored forewing cells. Then there's the relative size of the median cells, they look bigger in the pearl. Also, the hind wing of the pearl is overall more orange, difficult to see in the example photo because so much of the hindwing is covered up. It looks to me like your butterfly is a pearl.
swamp milkweed beetle (Labioderma clavicollis)- Alas, we have no swamp milkweed at the CB. But we do have plenty of Cynanchum. Just as good. Apparently this beetle species exhibits shockingly diverse markings.
familiar bluet (Enagallma civile)- Where’s my toofers?
I got to pace myself, Crumby thought, otherwise this gear shall wear me out sooner than anon. Plus I could hurt my elbow. Crumby wondered, does average amateur photography become aerobic, the more weight you add to yourself?
Yes. The gear was heavy. Similar loads have unbalanced and crashed commercial airliners. (Plus, nobody ever survived an airliner crash like that). But Crumby struggled on, attempting to ignore the searing pain that afflicted his elbow every time he lifted the camera to his eyeball. Dang it, my arm hurts. Dang it, Ah caint get my eye close enough to this dang view finder. Why do I have a Neanderthal brow ridge? Why caint ah have a normal brow ridge like everyone else?
Yes. Crumby often queried the WG concerning this or that affliction, inherited from Crumby’s long gone progenitors. Yea verily while Crumby did thus converse one way with the WG, he also took a picture or two. Here some of those are, all with the flash.
pearl crescent (Phyciodes tharos) - There is a rumor going around that flash may permanently damage the eyes of butterflies. That, if true, is bad. Crumby would need to stop using flash on his little friends.
All righty. Here is a phaon crescent for comparison. The contrast in the cell color of the median band is what I use to separate this from the pearl crescent. Typically the median band here is almost white, whereas in the pearl crescent it is always more similar in color to the rest of the lighter colored forewing cells. Then there's the relative size of the median cells, they look bigger in the pearl. Also, the hind wing of the pearl is overall more orange, difficult to see in the example photo because so much of the hindwing is covered up. It looks to me like your butterfly is a pearl. 
swamp milkweed beetle (Labioderma clavicollis)- Alas, we have no swamp milkweed at the CB. But we do have plenty of Cynanchum. Just as good. Apparently this beetle species exhibits shockingly diverse markings.
familiar bluet (Enagallma civile)- Where’s my toofers?
posted by ray pistrum at Friday, July 02, 2010
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