One of the giant butterfly garden ornaments I pass on one of my walks around the neighborhood given a selective colour treatment.
Taken on a recent walk with a fast portrait lens on the camera.

One of the giant butterfly garden ornaments I pass on one of my walks around the neighborhood given a selective colour treatment.
Taken on a recent walk with a fast portrait lens on the camera.
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Sunshine Yellow.
I decided that sunrise and sunset images were too obvious so went looking for the unusual. Then I decided to go with photos taken on my various walks around the neighborhood.
A yellow cap on a plywood figure on the South Bruce Peninsula. Unusual because most of these plywood figures have cowboy hats.
A giant yellow butterfly garden ornament. Taken on one of my walks around the neighborhood testing various camera and lens combinations.
Two yellow Lady’s Slipper Orchids on the South Bruce Peninsula. A photo from 6 years ago when there was still lots of these Orchids growing wild around the neighborhood. I haven’t seen any for a couple of years. I suspect that they’ve all been dug up and planted in people’s gardens.
My Macro Monday post this week is a Gatekeeper (Pyronia tithonus), a butterfly species found in Europe. An alternative common English name is Hedge Brown.
The darker patches in the center of the forewing show this is a male. The butterfly is resting on a Bramble leaf in Faddiley near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England.
This is my day 4 contribution to Becky’s July Squares: Perspective.
This giant blue butterfly garden ornament is one of three on trees I walk past on one my walking routes.
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge: Walkabout.
A few photos from some of my walks around the neighborhood over the past few weeks.
Some interesting tree bark with Cedar trees and blue sky providing blocks of colour in the background.
Paper Birch trees against a blue sky with some nice wispy clouds.
Colourful green moss and orange Lichen growing on a boulder.
A giant blue butterfly garden ornament against a blue sky.
This week’s Monochrome Monday is from a walk around the neighborhood a few days ago.
Given how blue the skies have been recently I thought a monochrome conversion darkening the sky would be interesting. Plus a spot of colour from the giant red butterfly garden ornament I frequently walk past would add to the spot colour trend I have been on recently.
This is my contribution to the One Word Sunday prompt Inversion.
I had a couple of ideas for the challenge centered around inverting the colours of a couple of recent photos from my walks around the neighborhood. However, my first two picks didn’t work as well as I expected so it was time to try something different.
The giant red butterfly garden ornament I walk past on some of my walks around the neighborhood.