Butterflies, Moths and Assorted Insects...

[ISv]

Today I was out in hunt for Black-belied Plover. Didn't happen!
Just took some shots of Butterflies and a Dragon (in my frustration I was going to dump all here but changed my mind in the last moment: not to hurt the feelings of the dragonfly guys ).
Happy to find the American Painted Lady on other location (second one for Oahu - at least according of what I have seen). Excluding the "inclusiveness" here is the most good-looking specimen (out of 4-5), all others were very weathered... End of the season?

1. Long-tailed Blue (Lampides boeticus)
2. American Painted Lady (Vanessa virginiensis) x 2.
Very similar from first glance to the cosmopolitan Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) but the underwings are solving the problem immediately!
3. Western Pygmy Blue (Brephidium exilis)

 

[Click]

Lovely series, ISv.

 

[AlanF]

First butterfly shot of the season for me and the first with the 200-800. The Peacock was very skittish and I had very little opportunity to get a shot. I was a bit shocked at first because I was at 637mm and I had to be a bit over 3m away to be more than at minimum focal distance. I zoomed out to 200mm and got closer, and the smaller image had better overall focus, as expected.

 

[koenkooi]

Second outing with the R7+100-500L, first butterfly shots of the year!
I do need to look at the button setup again, I use 'spot AF' as override on the AF-ON buttons on all my R bodies, the R7 really wants to track subjects instead of keeping that spot-AF point in place. I have a lot of shots where the spot-AF was on the eyes and the subject detect decided to wander off and track the grass in the background. I fixed that on the R8, so I have menu comparision session scheduled during the rain today

I'm very excited for this macro season!

 

[ISv]

Second outing with the R7+100-500L, first butterfly shots of the year!
I do need to look at the button setup again, I use 'spot AF' as override on the AF-ON buttons on all my R bodies, the R7 really wants to track subjects instead of keeping that spot-AF point in place. I have a lot of shots where the spot-AF was on the eyes and the subject detect decided to wander off and track the grass in the background. I fixed that on the R8, so I have menu comparision session scheduled during the rain today

I'm very excited for this macro season!

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Where did you take these photos? What is the butterfly on the second one?!

 

[AlanF]

Second outing with the R7+100-500L, first butterfly shots of the year!
I do need to look at the button setup again, I use 'spot AF' as override on the AF-ON buttons on all my R bodies, the R7 really wants to track subjects instead of keeping that spot-AF point in place. I have a lot of shots where the spot-AF was on the eyes and the subject detect decided to wander off and track the grass in the background. I fixed that on the R8, so I have menu comparision session scheduled during the rain today

I'm very excited for this macro season!

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I've always used centre spot AF on butterflies - they often have faux eyes to confuse predators and eyeAF!

 

[koenkooi]

Where did you take these photos? What is the butterfly on the second one?!

The Netherlands and the white butterfly is a Pieris Rapae, what we call a ‘small cabbage white’ in Dutch.

 

[AlanF]

Spot the Brimstone. It flew into a tree and it took me a while to find him with his wings closed and camouflaged. (R5/100-800).

 

[Maximilian]

Yesterday it was so warm that I could spot several species of butterflies.
I was especially happy to see peacocks and comma butterflies. Those have been rare last year.
Here is the first one that I could get a photo of, an orange tip
R6m2, @500mm, f/16, 1/500, ISO800

 

[koenkooi]

I went looking for grass snakes this weekend and wasn’t very successful, but lots of wildlife along the way, like this brimstone, which we call lemon butterflies here in the Netherlands.

R7+100-500L

 

[ISv]

The Netherlands and the white butterfly is a Pieris Rapae, what we call a ‘small cabbage white’ in Dutch.

It has unusual spots on the hind-wings. Should be some stain or dirt.

 

[AlanF]

First shot of an Orange Tip. This was from my wife with the R5 100-400mm on the R7. I had the RF 200-800 on the R5, and mine were not as good. I got the first Painted Lady with the longer lens. The RF 100-500mm will be my weapon from now.

 

[AlanF]

In my garden a Small White doing what it should be doing, first sucking nectar through its proboscis then getting covered in pollen for its next job (R5 + 100-500mm).

 

[Maximilian]

First holly blue of the season, from last (warm) week. Pretty early, as everything this year.

 

[Click]

Nice composition. Well done, Maximilian.

 

[Maximilian]

Nice composition. Well done, Maximilian.

Thanks, Click. It was sitting on our currants and the bg is the grey fence of our neighbour.

 

[ISv]

In my garden a Small White doing what it should be doing, first sucking nectar through its proboscis then getting covered in pollen for its next job (R5 + 100-500mm).

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Didn't know the Green-veined White could look so nice!

 

[AlanF]

First Speckled Wood Butterfly of the year for me (R5.100-500).