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The Holly Blue butterfly Celastrina argiolus is seen in or garden every summer. It rarely settles, making a photograph difficult. These shots are a day or two after a pair were seen mating. This was clearly a female feeding up to supply her bulging load of eggs.

This session, on Goldenrod lasted some 20 minutes. As she rarely opened her wings, the DOF was undemanding so I tried daylight exposure, at f11 (some at f16?). My recent doubts about the IS seemed unjustified from the results. I got a large number of images, with various angles of view and sizes in the frame. I think these have enough merit to post.

EM-1, Kiron 105, aperture priority, ISO 800, 1/160 to 1/400 sec.

Harold





© Harold Gough 2016





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© Harold Gough 2016




Aug 16, 2016 at 12:54 AM
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More.



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© Harold Gough 2016




Aug 16, 2016 at 12:56 AM
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These are all very nice Harold ~ Ron


Aug 16, 2016 at 07:00 AM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · A Hungry Holly Blue


A wonderful study of this specimen Harold!
Douglas



Aug 16, 2016 at 07:12 AM
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surfnron wrote:
These are all very nice Harold ~ Ron


Thanks Ron.

douter wrote:
A wonderful study of this specimen Harold!
Douglas


Thanks, Douyglas.

It helps to have a cooperative subject.

Harold



Aug 16, 2016 at 08:03 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · A Hungry Holly Blue


Excellent! I'm very fond of the composition in #1.
-Cam



Aug 16, 2016 at 09:34 AM
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onegreatcity wrote:
Excellent! I'm very fond of the composition in #1.
-Cam


Thanks, Cam.

So I was right to remove the original first image to seventh place, promoting the second one to first..

Harold



Aug 16, 2016 at 09:59 AM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · A Hungry Holly Blue


Hi -
I give them all a very nice - Bad year, so far, for butterflies here -
Thanks -
Paul



Aug 17, 2016 at 06:24 AM
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plsand wrote:
Hi -
I give them all a very nice - Bad year, so far, for butterflies here -
Thanks -
Paul


Thanks. Spring here was good, with early summer poor. It is picking up a bit now. Our constant winds from the west make the annual migration from Europe difficult.

Harold



Aug 17, 2016 at 06:48 AM





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