Taken at Wolds Lavender North Yorkshire this afternoon .... took me 15 minutes of following him around to get this close
No pp ..... just the crop
Taken at Wolds Lavender North Yorkshire this afternoon .... took me 15 minutes of following him around to get this close
No pp ..... just the crop
DANG! That a great shot, Lornem! Well-worth chasing him down, eh?
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worth every step and every arm wave trying to keep the bees from stinging me lol
Heck of a chase he led you on!
I think its an awesome shot... the only thing is that the nearer wing is lightly softer. Had you closed down the aperture a little you would have had him all in focus... obviously I am just nitpicking and to add to that, on my dual monitor setup, on the uncalibrated side, you cannot notice this, but on the calibrated side, its easily spotted.
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Very nice shot! I also can see the softness a little bit. On my screen it is more pronounced on the bottom of the wing on the left. It still is very nice. When I find a nice photo op such as that, I never have time to mess with my aperture. I just take the photo, and I am glad that I even got it. This photo is beautiful. It almost looks like velvet!
Another version of same butterfly
Lornem - very nice shots. Is this in a sanctuary or just a park? I've been watching for the monarchs here, but I just heard a report that because of the odd weather we've had in the states, we're not going to see a lot this year. Good thing you weren't attacked by the bees.
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it's a lavender farm, where they harvest about 6 acres to make the oil, the bees and the butteflies are just visitors, i call at the farm as part of my job and went after pics of bees reall, this just happened to crop up
Just stunning and beautifully captured. How lucky you are. I am still trying to be quick enough to photograph butterflies here.
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