{"id":1719,"date":"2010-09-12T23:09:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1719"},"modified":"2013-11-10T13:14:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T13:14:45","slug":"snail-portraits-and-more-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/snail-portraits-and-more-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Snail Portraits and More Butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I seem to be on a temporary mission to highlight the elegance of some of the less well regarded creatures which inhabit our yards and gardens. Yesterday it was the slugs. Today, it&#39;s the turn of the snails, taken yesterday after rain (tonight, after a day of glorious sunshine there are precious few to be seen).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/snail_1109106998.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/snail_1109107061.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/snail_1109107050.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/snail_1109107036.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s about three years since I&#39;ve posted sequences like these. The previous sets are <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/red-snail\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2007\/10\/01\/snail-art\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The small white butterflies were back in the garden today, enjoying the sunshine. Once again there were courtship games, and once again the female was displaying rejection postures (see the comments in <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/blog\/2010\/09\/04\/small-white-butterfly-courtship\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>). Still it was nice to get another sequence, including this shot of three small whites together.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/small_white_butterfly_x3_1209107179.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>If you want some truly beautiful pictures of butterflies, and to understand some of the camouflage techniques they use and the reasons why abstract patterns have such effect, then do take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papadakis.net\/live\/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_jph1_info&amp;products_id=115\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Butterflies: Messages from Psyche<\/i><\/a> by Philip Howse. You&#39;ll even find a moth imitating a fox (really!). Oh, and one of my foxes \ud83d\ude09<br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: all the shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 100mm f\/2.8L macro IS USM lens. The butterflies were photographed with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[992,253],"tags":[1144,1164],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butterfly-insects-2","category-snail","tag-butterfly","tag-snail","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}