Salvaging a post

Eastern Tiger Swallowtails are perhaps the most common visitors to our main garden and butterfly bush this summer. Well, except for all the little skippers.

Not many frames today as I am still busy [or "overwhelmed"] trying to go through the 700ish images from our recent trip, backing them up online — a painfully slow process with DSL — and working on projects in the garage and attic. This is about the best of a half-dozen mediocre shots of this butterfly and an unknown skipper on the butterfly bush. I do like how the Tiger Swallowtails' stripes tend to line up even when their fore- and hind wings still overlap a bit as in this shot. To try to emphasize this, I have cropped this image in a way I would not have allowed myself a few years ago. (I could not have cropped off *part* of a wing!)

Species page at BAMONA, http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/papilio-glaucus

1 year ago (Oops! “Eastern Tiger Swallowtail”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2015-07-31
2 years ago (“Zebra Swallowtail”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-07-31
3 years ago (“Tomorrow a retiree!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-07-31
4 years ago (“Common Whitetail (male)”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-07-31
5 years ago (“Clare & Linda || Linda & Clare”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-07-31

[ IMG_1967S9x12Atm :: f/7.1 :: 1/400" :: ISO-400 :: 250mm ]

[*lynn]

beautiful capture

[Elizma Fourie]

Beautiful butterfly

[GaryW]

Stunning shot, Thom.