On the quirks of referrers

[pecunium]

No small part of why I bought a "Pro" account at Flickr was the stats feature, which has been improved a couple of times in the past year (the most recent being a close to real-time feature. This is balanced by "today" seeming to start earlier than it used to, or being somehow linked to when one logs in, but I don't care enough to try and suss it

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[starwatcher307]

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Lovely picture. But it made me stop and think; mourning cloaks used to be quite common in my area. Now, not so much. I miss them.

On campus one year, a willow tree had been damaged; in the spring the sap oozed out of the cut and fermented in the sun. Butterflies came by the dozens to enjoy... and get drunk. (And the preying mantises hung around for an easy meal. I tell this story to my students, reminding them that, even if you're a butterfly, you shouldn't drink and drive.) I'd stop on my way to class, slip a finger under a butterfly, and get a close look as it flapped its wings lazily, unable to fly away. Unfortunately, I didn't own a camera back then, or know anyone who did, so no pictures, but it's an indelible memory. Many of them were mourning cloaks.
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[pecunium]

That's sad (the lack of the mourning cloaks).

I don't think that's the best of the series, for the best I think

[starwatcher307]

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for the best I think ... Are the ones to look at.

Technically, perhaps so. But aesthetics is partly in the eye of the beholder. I spent 50 years of my life severely near-sighted (got Lasik last summer, yay!), and I'm predisposed to prefer sharper detail, and side-to-side (or top-to-bottom) balance.

I could hear the wings tearing through the air.

Cool!
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[kate_schaefer]

I'm charmed by the colors you captured, particularly the incandescant purple-blue peacock spots.

[flipping_hades]

I think that the days in flickr stats are always in GMT; somewhere deep inside Yahoo some coder forgot to translate GMT to local time for rendering the stats page.

[pecunium]

According to the stats the day is supposed to start at Midnight, PST (which is consonant with the location of flickr's corportate headquarters).

In practice it used to be between 8-9 p.m.. Now it seems to be about ten minutes after I log in, whenever I log in.

[soul_diaspora]

I photographed that exact type of butterfly yesterday at Fletcher Wildlife Garden. (Didn't come out well, I'm afraid. The background was too dull--nothing's blooming here yet.) Thanks to you I know the name of it now!