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Silver Studded Blues

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted June 18, 20061,491 views12 comments

I went to a Cornish SSSI site a few days ago in my never ending search for orchids and the whole place was a butterfly orgie!!

This is a Silver Studded Blue which is rather rare in the South West of England apparently. I cant tell you anymore than that as I know nothing about butterflys. As soon as I get anywhere near anything that moves it's gone before I get a chance. These two on the other hand were somewhat preoccupied, but they kept spinning round and round this grass, so getting a plane of focus was really tricky.

EOS 5D, Tamron 180, f10 for a 1/320th ISO 400

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Josh Anderson on June 18, 2006 at 8:09 PM

Great light, detail and bg. Wonderful.

BTW, congrats on the Portfolio!!

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Comment posted by David Clapp on June 18, 2006 at 8:14 PM

Cheers Josh, I appreciate it.

Registered on November 28, 2005, 137 Posts, 441 Comments

Comment posted by W. Tracy Parnell on June 18, 2006 at 10:53 PM

Excellent shot with great detail. You could probably use it as a horizontal too.

Registered on March 4, 2004, 27 Posts, 1638 Comments

Comment posted by Tim Munsey on June 19, 2006 at 3:25 AM

Excellant work, very jealous or your orgy off to cornwall in August will there be any around then?
Great shot.

Tim

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Comment posted by Bill Garber on June 19, 2006 at 6:55 AM

Outstanding!

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Comment posted by Nathan Buck on June 19, 2006 at 12:26 PM

A real beauty David. Nice work waiting for that plane of focus to work out!

Nathan

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1101 Posts, 13589 Comments

Comment posted by Mark Plonsky on June 19, 2006 at 1:40 PM

Just gorgeous. If it was mine, I might try flipping it vertically.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 23 Posts, 224 Comments

Comment posted by Ronnie Gaubert on June 19, 2006 at 11:10 PM

David,

Good job of being persistant to get the shot. All tech are perfect. Just a very nice shot with a super background, well done.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 810 Posts, 3495 Comments

Comment posted by Randy Harrison on June 20, 2006 at 12:38 PM

Awesome capture David. These are beautiful butterflies.

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Comment posted by David Clapp on June 20, 2006 at 7:10 PM

Thanks for all the comments, I will ask about the butterflys in August, Tim.

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Comment posted by Carlo Sette on June 21, 2006 at 4:11 AM

Excellant work, nice detail! I prefear in horizontal!

Carlo

Registered on June 20, 2006, 22 Posts, 56 Comments

Comment posted by Mary C Legg on March 9, 2007 at 5:24 AM

this is really fantastic image-- and very lucky to get it, too. they exist over here in CZ, too so is nice to have such a clear image that I can use later for reference. thanks. you might consider listing it elsewhere with latin classification for identification. very nice.

plebeius argus plebejus argus thanks very much

Registered on March 7, 2007, 3 Posts, 2 Comments