Thanks, Hilton. I enjoyed the evening very much.
The following day, we went north and found about one googleplex of colours in any colour you can imagine. Sensory overload and headaches were imminent. Sunburn was inevitable.
I protected myself s much as possible by following my initial plan of recording the UV signature of as many species as possible. Now, "all" that remains is identifying them.
As usual, not everything went according to schedule and some things either were lost or recovered by miracles. Unfortunately, my usual UV workhorse lens for the D3200 decided it was time to enable a will of its own and promptly ceased to focus. I had brought the UV-Nikkor 105 as a backup (mainly for the D600 though) plus thankfully had the PN-11 extension tubefor it, so could proceed shooting fairly unimpeded. Then my new 300 PF E Nikkor decided to be capricious and jammed solid on the D800 - impossible to unmount the lens. Oh well. I continued with the 200/2 AFS and the Df. Against all usual expectations, the APO-Lanthar 125/2.5 behaved well on this trip and will not require Erik's attention later.
Although I mainly shot UV flowers up close, I added the occasional UV flower meadow shot done with the 18/4 Nikkor as well. Here is a blue-and-yellow mixture of Senecio and Felicia species set against an old farm house.
