Lucky Landing

[Loupey]

I'll be the first to admit that luck plays a BIG role in N/W shooting. Here's my last experience.

My daughter and I were walking through a park the other day when I spot what I initially thought was an extraordinarily large monarch. Getting closer, I see that it was in fact two smaller viceroys nearly touching at the head (first image).

Trying to follow them as they spun around on top of the bud, a third butterfly literally lands on one of them briefly. Luck because all three just happened to be within the DOF at that moment.

I never did get a successful shot of just the two of them.

Oh, if you're wondering what's causing that white background - it's the concrete pavement in the background which happened to get in the way from this particular vantage point. Looks artificial - but works I think for this shot.

[Sushigaijin]

looks like a party to me! nice capture. Nailing the DoF really makes it.

[Bevb]

Beautiful Loupey, #1 is terrific.

[Loupey]

Thanks, Erik and Bev. It's funny because I took a whole slew of images of the two of them (initially thought they were doing the mating dance, but they seemed to be feeding instead) and then only the 1 clear shot of all three. I'll take the one. But I do have to take a closer look at the other images.

Thanks again.