It’s raining but the land does need the water. I am not finding any spectacular insects, I don’t know where they have all gone to. Yesterday I found a new colony of Wolf Spiders but they are like lightning and there was no chance of a shot or of capturing one to pop on a little island in a plate of water. It may not work anyway as they can run, jump and I wouldn’t be surprised if they can walk on water.
This morning a fox was sitting in the yard by the hen run as bold as brass. I know hunting foxes with dogs is illegal and very naughty and when the pups returned I told them so. They were tired but I took them for a wander through the wood. I couldn’t find very much but was pleased to press the shutter four times and get four shots in focus.
It must be clean living. These are just thumbnails in Bridge, I’ll see if they are worth an edit later. I am playing with new headers. These are just draft copies and a bit juddery as I haven’t used any Dither.
You will have to press F5 to refresh your browser to see this work. I hope it’s the same on a MAC. I only found out the other day that MACs don’t have a home key. I use it a lot when editing in multi- window editors as it maximises view. I guess Command 0 works on MACs. I want an animated header but have not decided exactly what I want so there are likely to be a few changes over the next few days. Also I use progressive and not interlaced as I assumed that since the demise of CRT monitors interlaced is redundant. I’ll have to look this up.
I have noticed dozens if not hundreds of these tiny flies around.
I think they are one of the grass flies but I can’t find a picture of one like it. Keith pointed me towards Dung Flies and this could well be Norellisoma spinimanum. Thanks KEITH.
Your pictures are stunning, keep it up Adrian, and soon you'll be a star.
ReplyDeleteBob I doubt it.
DeleteThose flies look similar to the ones that are on the sheep crap up here.
ReplyDeleteThe last one looks good.
I tried with the refresh, but the header thing didn't work for me.
Keith, it didn't refresh for me but it should as it's a GIF file. I'm about to change the header anyway. Yellow Dung Flies are the ones on sheep crap or any crap usually. These are much smaller and thinner more a shiny gold colour and not as hairy if you will excuse the expression.
DeleteWe used a Mini Mike once on Magnetic Island that started with teaspoon.
ReplyDeleteCarol, I was about to ask you to post some of what you are on but realised you meant Mini Moke.
DeleteWow - you got an extreme close-up of that fly's face! I'll bet he felt like a supermodel. :)
ReplyDeleteLinda, it was a good fly and posed for once.
DeleteThose close ups are amazing. Wish you'd caught a pic or two of the fox.
ReplyDeleteGillian, I'll make sure I have a long lens on first thing tomorrow. I'll also check the hen run for holes this evening.
DeleteNow the header worked the first time I opened it but not on refresh nor on the second time of opening your blog. Anyhow I much prefer the last one. Great close ups Adrian.
ReplyDeleteMargaret, It was a very good little fly.
ReplyDeleteI like the header it weirdly reminds me of the original "the fly". I liked the last image of the possible Dung fly. I'm thinking the fork truck might set the immobiliser off, it's how most get nicked after all I wonder if we'll see a image of fork truck with its rear wheels in the air on tomorrow's blog :-)
ReplyDeleteDouglas, I'll try and get a proper header done today.
DeleteIt lifted off perfect. It doesn't have an alarm on just an immobiliser on the fuel solenoid. It was a bit light on the steering.
I'd say that damn fox is up to no good! I look forward to the new header. ...and we used to be able to put a coin behind the ignition switch and get the motor to start without a key or a screw driver.. Those were the days.
ReplyDeleteRed, I will keep working on headers. I could do with a copy of AfterEffects to achieve what I wish to achieve quickly.
DeleteThe long term problems caused by the thieves in our society are a real pain.
It's Cmnd = R on a Mac. For heavens sake don't drop the mini-digger!
ReplyDeleteThanks Graham, I only use other peoples Macs so apart from being a bit short of USB ports and just being different. I suppose if I had one then I'd get used to all the shortcut keys. It's bad enough switching between Adobe, Blender and Fusion.
DeleteThe screen on the Mac was a beauty, worth the money just for the screen.
Great shots also liked your new dynamic blog header :)
ReplyDeleteKovacs, I wasn't keen on the header. I have just done a new one.
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