• Take Flight

    Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away
    If you can use some exotic booze
    There’s a bar in far Bombay
    Come on and fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away

    Come fly with me, let’s float down to Peru
    In llama land there’s a one-man band
    And he’ll toot his flute for you
    Come on fly with me, let’s take off in the blue

    Once I get you up there where the air is rarified
    We’ll just glide, starry-eyed
    Once I get you up there I’ll be holding you so near
    You may hear all the angels cheer ’cause we’re together

    Weather-wise it’s such a lovely day
    Just say the words and we’ll beat the birds
    Down to Ac apulco Bay
    It’s perfect for a flying honeymoon, they say
    Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly away

    Once I get you up there where the air is rarified
    We’ll just glide, starry-eyed
    Once I get you up there I’ll be holding you so very near
    You may even hear a whole gang cheer ’cause we’re together

    Weather-wise it’s such a cool cool day
    You just say those words and we’ll beat the birds
    Down to Ac apulco Bay
    It’s so perfect for a flying honeymoon, oh babe
    Come fly with me, let’s fly, let’s fly
    Pack up, let’s fly away!!
    And don´t tell your mamma!!

    Frank Sinatra
    (Songwriters: JAMES VAN HEUSEN, SAMMY CAHN)

    Shot at Butterfly Creek on the Sony Nex 5N

  • Butteryfly on FlowerSame as yesterday, some more interesting facts:

    • The fastest butterflies fly at 19kph(12mph)
    • Many butterflies can taste with their feet to test suitability for laying eggs.
    • Antarctica is the only continent on which no Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)  have been found
    • Butterflies like to drink from mushy slices of banana, oranges and watermelon

     

  • Life on a TwigWork found me at Butterfly Creek today for an all staff meeting. After the meeting, myself and a few other staff took the opportunity to go through their butterfly enclosure (and small farmyard). I’ve been once before, so in preparation brought along my Nex 5N with a few different lens’. Unfortunately, whether due to the time of day, or time of week, it was not as full of butterflies as the other time I went, but I did manage to get a few shots I will share over the next day or so none the less.

    Some butterfly facts:

    • The earliest fossils of butterflies date back 40-50million years!
    • Depending on the species, they live from a week to a year (a week sounds pretty sort aye!)
    • Traditional Japanese see the butterfly as the personification of a persons soul. One definition of the Greek work for butterfly means soul.  
    • They cant fly if their body temp is lower than 30c degrees(86f)

    Shot on the Sony Nex with 16-50mm lens. Cropped in Gimp.

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    Shot on the Samsung Galaxy s2, edited in afterfocus.

  • Wraparound Tree

    There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.
    I love not man the less, but Nature more.

    Lord Byron