Photographing a photographing roo!

📷 Canon EOS 700D w/ EF 35mm f/2 IS USM
⚙️ ISO 100, 𝑓/2.5, 1/100 s
🦘 Luno Wroo @lunowroo@meow.social
📅 Eurofurence 28

#fursuitfriday #furry #fursuit #photography #ef28 #eurofurence #kangoroo #photography #canonphotography #canoneos700d

"Oh, hello?"

📷 Canon EOS 700D w/ Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS USM
⚙️ ISO 100, 𝑓/3.5, 1/500s
🐶 Blix @BlixFluff@mastodon.social
📍 Schifffahrtsmuseum Rostock - https://schifffahrtsmuseum-rostock.de/

#fursuitfriday #furry #fursuit #rostock #photography #canonphotography #canoneos700d

Exhaust(ed)

📷 Canon EOS 700D w/ Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD @ 70mm
⚙️ ISO 100, 𝑓/8, 1/100 s
🐱 Tashi https://bsky.app/profile/samuehl.bsky.social
📍 Warnemünde, Germany; Suitwalk organized by https://bsky.app/profile/warnow-fluffs.bsky.social

#fursuit #fursuitfriday #furry #cat #warnemünde #warnowfluffs #canonphotography #photography #canoneos700d

“A friendly werewolf has appeared in the village …”

📷 Canon EOS 700D w/ Tamron SP 24-70mm f/2.8 Di VC USD
⚙️ 60 mm, ISO 400, 𝑓/2.8, 1/100 s
🐺 Orion Dornklaue - https://www.instagram.com/orion_dornklaue/
📍 Warnemünde, Germany

#fursuitfriday #fursuit #furry #werewolf #canonphotography #warnemünde #canoneos700d

Here are some pictures from my recent zoo visit in Greifswald: A fuzzy alpaca, an adorable muntjac and curious raccoon.

📷 Canon EOS 700D w/ SP 24-70mm F/2.8 Di VC USD
📌 Tierpark Greifswald - https://www.tierpark-greifswald.de/

#greifswald #photography #alpaca #muntjac #raccoon #animal #photography #canoneos700d

[Archive – 17-02-2019]

So, I guess this will be my last post on Pixelfed. I'm not a gatekeeper or anything like that but the recent influx of new users and Dan now announcing a new web UI that, pardon me, is just as hideous as Tumblr's attempt at copying X's UI during the last "big migration", I don't see any point in posting my photos on here anymore. I didn't join Pixelfed for "popularity" or the like; I just wanted this to be a sister account of my capsule on Geminispace where I host the text of my amateur research. Miss me with that enshittification, I'm getting tired of every service looking and feeling identical to each other and catering to the lowest common denominator.

I you want to stay in touch and don't mind me rambling about tech in both English and German, you can follow me on @jatardine@mstdn.myifn.de – my ecological research will stay on the "smol web" while the rest of my photo archive and future shots won't be up for public consumption. I'm sorry but thanks to my roughly 70 followers for some inspiration and new insights!

#sunset #sundown #landscape #germany #canoneos700d

[Archive – 26-05-2024]

So while I was working on a solid caption for this Pyrrhosoma nymphula, Pixelfed‘s mobile web app decided to crash just like its official iOS AND Android apps (which are just a carbon copy of IG and doesn‘t resemble the web app at all). I might return once things calm down (and those now flocking to Pixelfed get bored and move back to their proprietary services just like during the big X migration to Mastodon). It really isn‘t fun seeing new users with just 100 followers and zero comments artificially inflating their like counts close to the 1000‘s while others spam tags I keep track of with irrelevant photos and even-more-irrelevant self-promotion.

#odonata #damselfly #largereddamselfly #germany #canoneos700d

First dramatic sunset of the year and it seems that my tiny EF 50mm still does a solid job, despite it being slightly damaged.

#sunset #sundown #dramaticsky #germany #canoneos700d

Do you want some freshly roasted #coffee?

📷 Canon EOS 700D w/ EF50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro +LSC
⚙️ ISO 100, 𝑓/8, 1/200 s

#closeup #photography #canoneos700d

2025's already off to the great start because I FINALLY managed to nail firework shots whilst being just minimally tipsy. Happy New Year, everyone!

#fireworks #happynewyear #germany #canoneos700d

[Archive – 30-12-2014]

On this day ten years ago I bought my Canon EOS 700D and it's still doing a solid job after all those years, despite my urge to upgrade having persisted since the very same day. Anything above ISO 800, regardless of the time of the day, turns every shot into a noisy mess, which isn't always suitable when documenting tiny animals and plants but quite a desired effect when doing something more "artsy" or capturing local events like my village's 850th anniversary back in 2018 where sensor noise may invoke some sense of nostalgia.

Those shots of "Zone III - Odrich's Pond" were created just ten days after purchase but never were properly edited until now. It was also the first time I ever saw this pond being entirely frozen. Nearly half of the conifers succumbed to the droughts of 2018 and 2022.

#winter #landscape #winterlandscape #germany #canoneos700d

[Archive – 05-07-2022]

Whilst making my first trip to an area that once used to be abused as an illegal dumpster and motocross track, I nearly stepped on dozens of butterflies resting on the path leading to an abandoned sandpit. Plebejus argus, one of the tiniest blues, dominated this particular path due to the lack of human activity since those motocross guys moved away.

This spot is, ironically, located just next to my nearest FFH territory, despite being featured on promotional shots for the project. The entire eastern side of the hill has not been studied by any professional researcher, as indicated by the lack of monitoring data accurately reflecting the biotopes and species that can be observed over there – and the differences are quite significant! Z. carniolica only can be observed at this unprotected part of the hill and begun to expand its territory to the unprotected "Cherry Hill" to the south just last year.

#lepidoptera #butterfly #silverstuddedblue #germany #canoneos700d

[Archive – 27/29-06-2024]

Just a day after my first brief hospital stay this Melanargia galathea made its very first appearance in my yard and wasn't the only species to do so during those three weeks I had to take it a little easier. On the 29th, just two days later, a single Thymelicus acteon, a species I last saw during the drought back in 2022, returned and pretty much let me know about it "in person" BUT in such a way I only managed to take a lazy but clear iPhone shot of it*. It‘s kind of funny to think about how my yard, which is largely unsuited for most of my local butterfly species, attracted two new species while I was unable to stick to my field trip routine.

(* I do have a Canon shot of it as well but it‘s as decent as you can imagine.)

#lepidoptera #butterflies #marbledwhite #lulworthskipper #germany #canoneos700d #iphone6s

[Archive – 30-07-2023] Pieris brassicae is somewhat of an oddball among my local whites due to also appearing in spring, despite officially being classified as a summer species, with its earliest first appearance so far having occurred on 30 April, 2024. In terms of size they often aren't noticeably larger than P. rapae, with the latter reaching their maximum size much more often in my study areas whereas P. brassicae doesn't. And despite a decent amount of individuals during this season, they were not observed anywhere near my cauliflower plants that, on the other hand, did attract plenty of small whites. #lepidoptera #butterfly #largewhite #germany #canoneos700d

[Archive – 19-04-2020] A young and out-of-focus Aquilegia vulgaris. #plant #flower #ranunculales #commoncolumbine #europancolumbine #germany #canoneos700d

[Archive – 25-07-2024] Argynnis paphia largely retreated to the forests this season. One particular spot was the most attractive to them and nearly all individuals were feeding on great globe-thistles, a plant species considered to be an "invasive introduced species" according to German sources such as the "Bundesamt für Naturschutz" but native to the entirety of the Eurasian continent but introduced to the Americas according to this plant's English Wikipedia article. I don't know, most German ecological recommendations and management plans just so strangely allign with the interests and complaints of commercial farmers, which likely explains why I found no documentation on specific butterflies and other insects actively seeking out plants that are included on a national "black list of invasive species". #lepidoptera #butterfly #silverwashedfritillary #germany #canoneos700d

[Archive – 03-12-2017]

The rooftops in my village were covered in a thin blanket of snow this morning. While our power meter got replaced, I checked the photos I moved to my backup HDD yesterday and found this experimental shot where I used parts of an old, visibly dirty window as a lens filter, focusing on the crown of this old small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata) located right behind my home. This tree was supposed to be removed to expand the line of garages it's surrounded by but a villager took the matter upon himself and embedded the roots of it in concrete.

#nature #malvales #tree #limetree #smallleavedlime #smallleavedlinden #germany #canoneos700d

[Archive – 22-04-2023]

During the early weeks of butterfly season, the most important plant in my area is the dandelion. Even during the drought of 2022, the vast majority of butterflies almost exclusively relied on dandelions, ignoring any other source of fresh nectar. While I still need more data, there has been a consistent drop in butterflies the moment the first batch of dandelions gets removed, with no species present prior to the mowing, minus A. cardamines, fully recovering and the others starting their respective seasons near the end of May avoiding the regrowing dandelions. Why those blooming after mid-May are being avoided even by most bees is something I'll try to analyze in the next season.

To my own surprise, the species most dependent on dandelions appears to be Gonepteryx rhamni. Usually classified as "common", it actually is among the rarer species to encounter in my area, so far always having disappeared the moment my municipality starts its mowing routine that turns the meadow in front of my home into a hideous lawn with plenty of fully bare spots. Despite this, the amount of individuals appears to be increasing at a slow but steady pace – we went from exactly 0 up to 2022 to roughly a dozen adults in 2024.

#lepidoptera #butterfly #commonbrimstone #germany #canoneos700d

[Archive – 22-05-2022]

Despite a strong season for nearly all birds this year, some species drastically declined halfway through the summer of 2024, one of them being Turdus merula. The usutu virus (USUV) affects a variety of birds including but not limited to blackbirds, song thrushes, great grey owls, magpies and, to a lesser degree, kestrels, targeting the central nervous system and killing its hosts within a few days. Locally, blackbirds only rank 2nd in terms of infections/deaths throughout this observation season; the species that was hit the hardest in and around my village was the magpie, which currently has begun to recover and grow in numbers again.

This shot from 2022 was among the first from my first proper field trip that later would lead me to continuously keep track of my local environment to the best of my ability, also using this opportunity to improve my photography skills which I've been working on since 2013.

#aves #passeriformes #bird #commonblackbird #germany #canoneos700d

[Archive – 18-07-2024]

This one's for @poetavaquero! This female Calopteryx splendens was hard to spot due to the tansy growing near the bridge of the bike path and the area throwing a lot of shade at this time of the day (no pun intended). This particular spot is inhabited by both C. splendens and C. virgo, though the latter‘s population has remained significantly smaller even during this season where I managed to observe the first spreading southwards into my village, a tiny spot near the church now marking its southernmost occurrence relative to my designated zones.

#odonata #damselfly #bandeddemoiselle #germany #canoneos700d