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Tag: "butterfly"

Digiscoped Daggerwing

Digiscoped Daggerwing

After a solid week of some of the most intense photographic training and practice I have ever experienced in my life, I now lo longer find digiscoping an inapplicable technique for butterflies.

Standing at Attention for the Admiral

Standing at Attention for the Admiral

In my sparsely butterfly populated corner of Northwest Oregon, a fleeting glimpse of large black and white lepidopteran wings immediately brings one name to mind – but not always the right one.

Tail-less Tiger

Tail-less Tiger

Here in Northwest Oregon, photographing butterflies poses two main challenges. First, there aren’t many of them here. Second, the most photogenic of the ones that are rarely settles long enough to get a decent photo of it.

Butterfly Photographer's Handbook

Butterfly Photographer's Handbook

Of all the popular photographic subjects in nature, few can rival butterflies in terms of color, variety, and charisma; however few subjects also present the photographer with more technical challenges.