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Photos from pth15 on 2011-Jun28:
Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): flower Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): flower closeup Fishfly (Chauliodinae sp): on Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae) Large-variety yellow ladyslipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var pubescens): clump with Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae) - Queen leads her loyal troops Large-variety yellow ladyslipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var pubescens): plant Large-variety yellow ladyslipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var pubescens): flower Canada anemone (Anemone canadensis): plant

Photos from the fen on pth15 on 2011-Jun28:
Rose pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides): flower Rose pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides): flower Pink pyrola=Pink wintergreen (Pyrola asarifolia): flowers and buds Red paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea): Balsam groundsel (Packera paupercula): Loesels false-twayblade (Liparis loeselii): plant Loesels false-twayblade (Liparis loeselii): flowers Loesels false-twayblade (Liparis loeselii): flowers Wood lily (Lilium philadelphicum): plant Wood lily (Lilium philadelphicum): flower Bastard toadflax (Comandra umbellata): plant Bastard toadflax (Comandra umbellata): plant

Photos from Jackpine-forest on pth15 on 2011-Jun28:
White campion (Silene latifolia): plant White campion (Silene latifolia): flower White campion (Silene latifolia): buds White campion (Silene latifolia): flower Wood lily (Lilium philadelphicum): flower Wood lily (Lilium philadelphicum): flower

Photos from The-Cusson municipal gravel-pit near Wye MB on 2011-Jun28:
Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris): Loesels false-twayblade (Liparis loeselii): plant Loesels false-twayblade (Liparis loeselii): flowers Seneca root (Polygala senega): clump Seneca root (Polygala senega): plant Seneca root (Polygala senega): flowers Seneca root (Polygala senega): flowers Bladderwort (Utricularia sp): flower Bladderwort (Utricularia sp): plant Bladderwort (Utricularia sp): flower+buds Bladderwort (Utricularia sp): flower+buds Sticky asphodel (Tofieldia glutinosa): plant Sticky asphodel (Tofieldia glutinosa): flowers+buds Red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) + Grass (Poaceae sp): intertwined rear-view Red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) + Grass (Poaceae sp): intertwined front-view Northern bedstraw (Galium boreale): flowers Northern bedstraw (Galium boreale): plant Red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis): plant Red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis): flower Goldenrod-crab-spider (Misumena vatia) + Bee-mimic flower-beetle (Trichiotinus assimilis): on Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) Goldenrod-crab-spider (Misumena vatia) on Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) Bee-mimic flower-beetle (Trichiotinus assimilis): on Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) Bee-mimic flower-beetle (Trichiotinus assimilis): on Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) Bee-mimic flower-beetle (Trichiotinus assimilis): on Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) Syrphid-fly (Syrphidae sp): on Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) Prickly rose (Rosa acicularis): Star-flowered solomons-seal (Maianthemum stellatum): Syrphid-fly (Syrphidae sp): on Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) Syrphid-fly (Syrphidae sp): on Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) Syrphid-fly (Syrphidae sp): on Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) Syrphid-fly (Syrphidae sp): on Ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) Bladder campion (Silene vulgaris): plant with seed-pods Bladder campion (Silene vulgaris): seed-pods
-- the Bee-mimic flower-beetle (Trichiotinus assimilis) in photo 18077 (being stalked by the crab-spider) is considerably smaller than the one in photos 18081, 18082, and others of the species I have photographed;

-- the Syrphid-fly in photo 18083 is a different individual (and of a different species) than the one in photos 18087, 18088, 18089, 18091;


Photos from East-Braintree-Rd on 2011-Jun28:
Spruce grouse (Falcipennis canadensis): female Spruce grouse (Falcipennis canadensis): female Spruce grouse (Falcipennis canadensis): female unidentified Grass (Poaceae sp): clump unidentified Grass (Poaceae sp): seed-head Tall buttercup (Ranunculus acris): flower Tall buttercup (Ranunculus acris): flower Blue-flag iris (Iris versicolor): flower Blue-flag iris (Iris versicolor): bud Blue-flag iris (Iris versicolor): bud Yellow pond-lily (Nuphar lutea): Yellow pond-lily (Nuphar lutea):

Photos from pr308 on 2011-Jun28:
Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): many Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): clump Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): many Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): flowers Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): flower Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): plant Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): clump Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): red-form flower Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): red-form plant Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): plant Wood lily (Lilium philadelphicum): plant with 2 flowers Goldenrod-crab-spider (Misumena vatia) on Prickly rose (Rosa acicularis) Goldenrod-crab-spider (Misumena vatia) on Prickly rose (Rosa acicularis) Goldenrod-crab-spider (Misumena vatia) on Prickly rose (Rosa acicularis) Goldenrod-crab-spider (Misumena vatia) on Prickly rose (Rosa acicularis) Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): several including red-form plants with Blunt-leaf rein-orchid (Platanthera obtusata) Showy ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae): several including red-form flowers Northern green bog-orchid (Platanthera aquilonis): plant Northern green bog-orchid (Platanthera aquilonis): flower-spike Northern green bog-orchid (Platanthera aquilonis): flower-spike Fleabane (Erigeron sp): Common yarrow (Achillea millefolium):
-- the first plant with red-and-white (as opposed to pink-and-white) flower is also unusual for its wide leaves, its lower leaves being as wide as long;  I have no idea whether these characteristics tend to go together;


Photos from Ames cottage in Wye MB on 2011-Jun28:
Striped coralroot (Corallorhiza striata var striata): Waved sphinx-moth (Ceratomia undulosa): on deck Waved sphinx-moth (Ceratomia undulosa): on deck Waved sphinx-moth (Ceratomia undulosa): on hand Waved sphinx-moth (Ceratomia undulosa): on hand Waved sphinx-moth (Ceratomia undulosa): on hand underside


Notes:
My camera's auto-focus kept missing the "unidentified Grass" subject, and this led me to think about the sort of auto-focus I would like:  it would not have 51 focus-points (like the fancy Nikon D3s), rather it would have just one, in the exact centre, which would be marked with a fine-lined cross-hair symbol as found in a rifle-scope;  using a camera so equipped would not come naturally to the photographer who is used to first locking the camera on a tripod positioned to "frame" the desired shot;  however for a non-tripod-user like me it would be just plain wonderful, ever so much simpler, and ever so much less aggravating;  aha, the Nikon dSLR models offer "Single-Point AF" which must be what I want;  I may have to get one.

I was hoping Nikon would follow up on the E5700 approach, putting the features a serious photographer wants into a scaled-down digital camera;  since there is no good reason for the digital sensor to be the exact same size as 35mm-film (other than lens-compatability), why not employ a smaller sensor, thereby giving us smaller lighter lenses;  I want the features of a dSLR camera but I do not want to carry that many kilograms of gear... 

Their P80/P90/P100/P500 models have the desired size and weight, and come with a do-everything lens, currently 22.5 to 810 in 35mm-equivalent terms (36X), that gets improved yearly at both ends, however Nikon over-did the cost-cutting by discarding Raw-mode (and a few other things a serious photographer wants such as "Single-Point AF");  furthermore, the AF-assist-lamp, introduced with the P90, is a bad joke in that it is positioned so that it completely misses a nearby subject!

Nikon's auto-focus algorithm is like optical-character-recognition (OCR) in that I'm disappointed with what I'm using, and keep thinking I should have thrown my computer-programming ability at the problem.  Neither problem is easy, yet surely it would be easy to do better than what this crappy soft-/firm-ware does:-)  Hmm, if Nikon were to make it open-source, then some bright young person who likes photography, knows computer-programming and a little about the physics of light...  (Actually I have no idea to what extent the auto-focus is done in hardware;  getting around the limitations may well require a redesign of the hardware bits.)

The Nikon P90 always over-exposes bright yellow subjects, and on some days including today the largest correction -2.0-ev is not enough to avoid a washed-out region on a sun-lit glossy yellow subject.