Brimstone on Hyacinth

e6filmuser

I was about to go out for a pub lunch when I walked by this, slightly tattered, individual resting (not feeding) on a flower. Its position was such that the lens, the main flash, on a L-bracket, and the fill flash (in my lens-supporting hand) were all blocked or snagged by stiff plant stems if I tried for the ideal plane of focus. So this was from a slightly high position.

EM-1, Kiron 105mm (f8?), twin flash, hand-held.

Harold

Lord Vetinari

Wonderful capture Harold
Brian v.

e6filmuser

Lord Vetinari wrote: »

Wonderful capture Harold
Brian v.

Thanks, Brian.

Brimstones rarely keep still for long. The low air temperature, as opposed to the radiant warmth from the sun, may have slowed him down.

Orange tips were mating a few feet away on the following day.

Harold