Macro Blues
Shots from this summer in the Olympic Mountains. These two butterflies were “caught in the act”. They were so absorbed by their reproductive urges that I could take a lot of pictures. These are all hand-held, some are cropped and others not.
My naturalist friends Bill Yake and Jeannette Barreca from Washington State tell me that this is either the Greenish Blue (Plebejus saepiolus) or Boisduval’s Blue (Plebejus icarioides). They say the rubbed condition of these makes identification tricky. I’ll take their word for it as my time as an entomology museum technician ended 38 years ago and everything I might have known then was forgotten decades ago.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 100mm/f2.8 macro lens, ISO400, mostly f7.1, hand-held.
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burnt embers 
Nice, looking forward to see more macros from you. 🙂
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Hi Chai, thanks for coming by. I nearly did not approve this comment as your WP site is defunct. But your gravatar looks legit. If you search my site for macro, you will find a lot of them. One of my favourite things to do with a camera.
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Hi ephem, macro is also one of my favorite thing to do with my camera. my WP site is defunct? meaning you cant get into it? thats weird. 😦
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Hi. The url you attach to your comments says you have cancelled the WP site. If that is not true then either it is the wrong url or you need to contact WP support. I see that message from time to tme and till now have assumed it to be true. If you need a screen shot then email me: ehpemm_at_gmail_dot_com.
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Sweet!
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Thanks!
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Beautiful couple 😉 Great images!!
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Thank you – they are a beautiful couple, and not in the least bit shy.
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Hahaha… no, I can see that. 😉
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I love to see sharp detail in macro shots such as these. As far as identification is concerned, it doesn’t matter to me since I can’t tell the difference either. Now that you have broken down the insect “sex tape” barrier in blog posting I may dig up one of my own for posting.
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Hi Ken – thanks so much. A bit of Topaz Clarity helped a couple of them quite a bit.
Oh dear, I hope I have not broken any barriers of good taste. Natural history can be very, well, natural. But it would be interested to see your photos, salacious or not. Just be careful in choosing a title!
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Thank you Erin! I took a lot of shots knowing that getting the right focus was going to be tricky.
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These photos are absolutely beautiful!
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