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Painted Lady (for Griangraf)
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It certainly is a Painted lady, maybe its just the screen i’m looking at this on but the head and legs seem to be in deep shadow, maybe you could bring them up a touch.
Pete,
Spot on it’s a Painted Lady. Nice shot as well. Very blue thorax on this one. It’s only a guess but did you take this in Donegal by any chance.
MJ
griangraf wrote:
Spot on it’s a Painted Lady. Nice shot as well. Very blue thorax on this one. It’s only a guess but did you take this in Donegal by any chance.
Yep. Do we have a “sport” or race or sub-species or something? I got about 30 shots of this. I’ve maybe or 6 left after deleting the worst of them. The thorax is really iridescent in a couple of them. It was a bright sunny day and the hard shadows were difficult to avoid. It was the same day I got this peacock:
https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?t=1797No Pete I wish I was that skilled at identification etc. The give away was the the granite on which the butterfly is resting. I spend many years geologically mapping granites in Leinster, Donegal and Galway and all over the world. I have seen enough weathered granite to last a life time. At a mad guess I would say this is from the Fanad Granite.
At a mad guess I would say this is from the Fanad Granite.
I don’t know if you’ve been very clever, or just wrong here! The picture was taken at Dunree Head, which is very close indeed to Inishowen’s only granite outcrop (and thus not far from Fanad). But…. I think that the rock at Dunree itself is Slieve Tooey quartzite and that the lichen patterning has made it look like granite.
Spot on Pete the granites are further to the North and also to the Northwest across Lough Swilly. I now going to give back my so-called degrees and be quiet.
MJ
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