A Touch Of Red

I was out in the front garden this morning when I saw this red admiral butterfly land on Gail's car.

Fortunately it was still there when I returned with my camera, so I shot a few frames. As the butterfly had landed on the passenger door window, I kept dancing about, trying to get a shot that didn't have a distracting background in it.

I think I have succeeded with this one, don't you think?

Lunchtime Shooting

When I stepped out of the office at lunchtime today,  I thought that I had been transported to Dubai, it was that hot and sunny.

Alas I wasn't in Arabia, but the centre of Nottingham, and on the lookout for my next blog photo.

Unfortunately nothing really caught my eye, so I wandered back to work 'empty handed'. But then as I was walking through the grounds, I saw a butterfly, fluttering around one of the lavender bushes.

So I quickly whipped out my OMD, switched the lens to macro, and took a few photos. He certainly didn't stay very long on each of the flower heads, so I was actually lucky to get a fairly in focus shot. As the photo below clearly shows, they can certainly shift when they want to.

Friday Flutter

Well it's a bit of a restful photo today, after so much action over the last week or so.

I saw this butterfly hopping from one flower to another, so I managed to get this shot while it had landed and stayed still enough to press the shutter button.