Snapshots from my IPhone 7 from a 6 mile walk this week around Robert H. Treman Park.
Autumn Amble
The forest floor was newly painted after leaf fall
Tag: Apple Iphone 7
Goodbye for 2022
Our last Monarch for 2022
We successfully raised nine (9) Monarch butterflies this season, leaving us feeling, “Let’s do more in 2023.” Today’s post cover is a portrait of the last. She flew yesterday, September 23rd, forty (40) feet up to the oak tree shading the back yard, lost to us in the leaves.
Her chrysalis is the second from right in the following family photograph.
Here are two videos of our last 2022 Monarch to emerge and the first.
The butterfly emerges from the chrysalis about fourteen (14) days after setting. To the photographer needing to capture the moment a signal is the green, jewel-like chrysalis turns transparent, apparently darkening to reveal the compressed form of the butterfly. It can be hours before the insect breaks free, the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV dslr camera is used for this. I set it on a Manfrotto BeFree Carbon Fiber tripod (with ball head), a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L macro lens for optics. The Mark IV has WIFI and HD video capabilities, so I connected the camera to an Apple IPhone 7 using Canon software. Monitoring the transparent chrysalis in real time, I continually reset the video from the IPhone until the butterfly emerged. I used AVS video editor software to produce the film for YouTube publication.
Copyright 2022 Michael Stephen Wills All Rights Reserved
Rambling Images
Three Summer Hikes
“Out in the meadow, I picked a wild sunflower, and as I looked into its golden heart, such a wave of homesickness came over me that I almost wept. I wanted Mother, with her gentle voice and quiet firmness; I longed to hear Father’s jolly songs and to see his twinkling blue eyes; I was lonesome for the sister with whom I used to play in the meadow picking daisies and wild sunflowers.”
from “Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist, Writings from the Ozarks” edited by Stephen W. Hines”
Click me for “Summer Dream, Buttermilk Falls” in my Fine Art Gallery
Cornell Plantations
Click photograph for a larger view.
Taughannock Falls
Buttermilk Falls, upper
A quiet moment……
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Queen Victoria Arrival
Little did they know what lay in store….
Pam and I walked from Cheri Down park this morning of February 2020 to Jetty Park where we were fortuitous witnesses to the arrival of the Cunard ship Queen Victoria on an 84-day cruise around South America.
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I used my IPhone 7 to capture the event. Understanding the context of a ship’s arrival opens a whole new world. Standing on the pier I researched the voyage.
Here is the list of ports on the itinerary. These include the Caribbean, Central America and many of the same ports visited on the 2016 Oceania cruise Pam and I enjoyed from Lima, Peru to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
| Hamburg, Germany |
| Southampton, England |
| Kings Wharf, Bermuda |
| Port Canaveral, Florida |
| Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Bridgetown, Barbados |
| Manaus, Brazil |
| Santarem, Brazil |
| Salvador de Bahia, Brazil |
| Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Buenos Aires, rgentina |
| Puerto Madryn, Argentina |
| Ushuaia, Argentinia |
| Cape Horn, Chile |
| Punta Arenas, Chile |
| Puerto Montt, Chile |
| San Antonio, Chile |
| Coquimbo, Chile |
| Arica, Chile |
| Callao (Lima), Peru |
| Manta, Ecuador |
| Panama City, Panama |
| Panama Canal, Panama |
| Cartagena, Columbia |
| Willemstad, Dutch Antiles |
| Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| Ponta Delgada, Azores |
| Southampton, England |
| Hamburg, Germany |
Little did they or we know the happy voyage was destined to terminate and return.
Michael Stephen Wills Photography 
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