Project 52 - Weekly Photos from Geoff F - Part 3

[billtils]

Not sure which I prefer, the nicely composed scene or the text bubble! Love it!

[Geoff F]

Thanks for the comments.

Yes, Len, Shire Horses although that is something of a general term for a wide range of 'breeds' designed for farm work or cart pulling etc.

The man with the microphone was recording the sound of horse ploughing for Plymouth University archives. So much general farm noise wasn't recorded in the past so the sound (and smell) of working life has disappeared.

[Geoff F]

Week 36 - A day of sunshine and clouds. A field next to where I was recording insects.



7D with Tamron 24-70 lens. 1/250 F11 Iso 250. Shot while wedged between a barbed wire fence and a blackthorn bush. A couple of days earlier I wrecked a new shirt on a barbed wire fence !

[Geoff F]

And a few of the insects.

Beautiful Demoiselle



Comma Butterfly



Peacock Butterfly Caterpillar

[billtils]

Interesting set Geoff. The head shot of the damsel fly is superb, but out of interest ... I have never seen one with wings that colour. Out of the three, I like the "ugly" one best - the black caterpillar would have been a bit of a challenge.

[Geoff F]

Thanks Bill. I suspect that Demoiselle is a freshly emerged male and the wings haven't quite darkened to the adult colour. Females have brownish wings but with a white wing spot and are normally more of a greenish colour body.

[Geoff F]

Week 37 - Snapes Point. An area beside the harbour which is owned by the National Trust and has some public paths giving good views of the estuary and farmland.

Harvested



7D with Tamron 24-70 lens. 1/400 F11 Iso 250. Merge of two bracketed exposures

Harvested #2



Boats



1/320 F11 Iso 250 Merge of two edits from one Raw image.

Robins Pincushion Gall on a Wild Rose



1/200 F22 Iso 400

[Cantab]

Geoff, the first two images are of interest because of what, at first glance, look like out of kilter lines. But all of them appear to be the product of the sloping farmland.

But I am intrigued by the second image. The stack of hay looks top heavy but there appears to be the same number (3) of bales of hay at each level in the stack.

In the final image is the gall called Robin's cushion gall because of the colouring?

[Geoff F]

Thanks for the comments, Bruce.

Yes the land is sloping. If you see any level land here, it is artificial.

Going by the distant telephone pole my image verticals are upright.

If you look closely at the second image straw bales you can see that the spacing between bales gets wider on the upper rows.

The Robin's Pincushion name probably stems from the red breast colour patches. It is also called Rose Bedeguar and the little wasps which caused it are called Diplolepis rosae. They are supposed to be fairly common although I have seen very few of them.

[Cantab]

Wikipedia has an interesting article about diplolepis rosae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplolepis_rosae . As you indicated they're tiny! The females apparently only 1/16" long.
I'll keep my eyes open the next time I'm near a wild rose, for a gall, not a 1/16" wasp.