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Vanessa Atalanta in the Villa Ndio Garden
Photographed 26 May 2025
Camera: ILCE-7RM3A Sony A7RM3A
Lens: Tamron 70-180mm f2.8 Di III VC
Settings: f/3.5, 1/350 sec., ISO-100, 180mm
Code: 7M3250526

Photography by Peppy Doggett
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Vanessa Atalanta in the Villa Ndio Garden
Photographed 26 May 2025
Camera: ILCE-7RM3A Sony A7RM3A
Lens: Tamron 70-180mm f2.8 Di III VC
Settings: f/3.5, 1/350 sec., ISO-100, 180mm
Code: 7M3250526
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Silver-washed fritillary
Photographed 21 June 2025 in Villa Ndio’s Butterfly Alley
Camera: ILCE-7RM3a Sony A7R3 iiia
Lens: Tamron 70-180mm F/2.8 Di III VC VXD
Settings: f/4, 1/400 sec., ISO-400, 180mm
Code: 7R3250621
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Painted Lady butterfy in Cabris, France
Photographed 22 April 2025
Settings: F/4, 1/5000 sec.,ISO-640, 600mm
Code: R220425
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Scarce Swallowtail on red valerian in Cabris France
Photographed on 2 May 2025
Camera: Sony A7RM3a
Lens: Tamron 70-180 f2.8
F/10, 1/800 sec., ISO-400, 180mm
Code: 7R3250502

Rumors of War
by Kehinde Wiley examining equestrian portraiture in the canon of Western art history[1] culminating in a bronze monumental equestrian statue by the artist of an African-American young man (with dreadlocks in a ponytail, jeans ripped at the knees and Nike high-top sneakers), created in response to the statue of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart in Richmond, Virginia in particular and similar statues of high-ranking Confederate Army officers, some of which still stand in the United States despite persistent calls for their removal.[2] Since the installation of Rumors of War in Richmond, all of the statues of the military leaders of the Confederacy have been removed from Monument Avenue where they had been since the first decade of the 20th century.
From Wikipedia
Photographed on 27 December 2025 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond
Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra

Photographed on 25 December 2024 in Richmond Virginia
Camera: Sony A7r3a
Lens: Tamron 70-180mm f2.8
Settings: f/4, 1/200, ISO-250
Code: AR73251225
Great Banded Grayling
11 July 2021
Camera: Sony A7Rm2
Lens: Sony 90mm f2.8
Settings: f/4, 1/800 sec., ISO-400, 90mm
About this butterfly:
Code: A72110721
Scarlet Skipper at the Villa Ndio Pool, Grasse France, 20 July 2024; Sony DSC-RX10M3; 1/5000 sec.; f4; ISO-400: 220mm
Code: R20240720
Eurasian Nuthatch
Photographed in the Villa Ndio garden
Camera: Sony DSC-RX10m3
Settings: 1/640 sec.; f/4; ISO-640; 220mm
Code: R240711
Geranium Bronze Butterfly
14 July 2014
Camera: Sony SLT A77V
Lens: Minolta 135mm f2.8[4.5]
Settings: f/4.5, 1/2500 sec., ISO-400, 135mm
Code: S140724