Tuesday was sunny for a change in my part of the world so had a day out looking for butterflies. I drew a virtual blank for most of the day so decided to call it a day relatively early in the afternoon. On the way home I stopped off at around 3pm at one of my favourite butterfly meadows where chalkhill blue butterflies were flying, albeit rather intermittently. In the hour and a half that I was there I suppose I saw around a dozen, all males. But because the sun was going down by this time, every time a butterfly stopped at a nectaring flower it opened its wings to gather the remaining rays. Normally they are very fickle but today they were so obliging. As long as I didn't cast a shadow on them they didn't give a monkeys about me and carried on feeding as I snapped away. Probably the easiest chalkhill blues I've ever photographed. 
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Taken as usual with Canon S3 with HDK raw hack and 500D c/u lens. C&C appreciated.
| Canon 5DII
| Fujifilm Finepix F30
