Papenburg Panorama

playing around with my cam, an antique russian fisheye lens, a tripod and photoimpact

I´m afraid...

...I´ve become slightly obsessed with butterfly stuff.
Got really exited when I discovered Angelonia flowers in a nearby garden centre.

Hope the butterflies will like it :).

Spent at least 5 hrs looking for butterfly plants all over the internet yesterday.

photo workshop

...at Emsflower on Saturday. Very good teacher: Roland Artur Berg (http://www.fotografie-berg.de) .
Lots of space for improvement, still don´t use all the possibilities of my (by now rather old) camera.

Rups..

as the dutch say. We´ve finally got Morpho offspring on the Wisteria and the Parides iphidamas are pupating.

Whenever I´m a lazy git...

...I try to remember this :) .

Actually really like my work right now feels like I´m getting the best of two worlds.
I guess it will / cannot last because planningwise it would be "a little bit" complicated,  but I´ll enjoy it how long it lasts and look very much forward to new stuff anyway :).

Leszek i pustułek

Leszek & pustułek  (Proszę wybaczyć mój słaby polski :) ! )
Leszek & Turmfalkenweibchen
Leszek & female kestrel
Leszek &  vrouwelijke torenvalk
Leszek &  falco tinnunculus (0,1)

Don´t know why everybody who has not studied biology seems to hate the "latin" species names, it´s so much easier and precise to use them.

Leszek*  caught a female kestrel today in one of the greenhouses and was kind enough to show it to me before he released it.
After some newts, a lizard (still unsure about the species...it came with the potsoil), a rhinozeros beetle, various songbirds, toads and frogs galore this was an interesting & unexpected new addition to the collection at my workplace.

* a colleague of mine, together we´ve been through thick and thin in the last years (and no, this is no english for runaways, apparently that´s a real english expression)