Butterflies & Moths – Both scanned 35mm slides & Digital
A great subject to start your wildlife photography with, their easy to find and with patience and time you can get real close to them especially if their feeding. The back garden is a great place to start if you have a buddlia bush, or a trip to the local nature reserve will give you a greater variety in cluding the browns and skippers.
A session shooting 2 Butterflies that have eluded me for years, well 2010 has finally struck them off my hit list. The camberwell's were a pleasure to shoot, but the Large Tortoishells were a nightmare to get in one place for more than 10secs.....Any how im pretty pleased with the end results. I hope you enjoy them....! I plan to enter some of these into Salons during the second half of the year.
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My first Butterfly species of 2010 was the beautiful but delicate Marsh Fritillary now a very rare species located in small pockets of habitat along the west coast of Scotland, Wales and a few areas in SW England, it has declined by over 60-70% in the last 20 years due to drainage of wet meadowlands & the ploughing of downlands. Its not a active fligher like the larger Fritillaries and may never stray from the meadow which it feeds in. Its marking can vary greatly from area to area.
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Insects can provide a wonderful array of subjects to the photographer. Butterflies are superb for their vast array of colours & shapes. Many can be found in our gardens but the rare species involve some serious tracking down and even trips over to Europe are required to see many species that were once common in the UK 100years ago like the Black Veined Whites for example. To take good insects shots you will need a macro Lens capable of 1:1 reproduction a good flash, mounted to the side and a Good SLR, preferably Digital so you can erase shots that are no good and carry on in the knowledge you have got the desired image.
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