Love the first two. Some kind of Marble butterfly?

Great captures!

Nice!

Nice captures. The first two look like Orangetips (Anthocharis cardamines) to me, which is surprising since, at least in Europe they are a sprin species, typically active April-May. The last two are Clouded yellows I guess.

Beautiful photographs -- ya done good, real good.

Thank you all.

aolander said:

Love the first two. Some kind of Marble butterfly?

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Yeah, but they all look so alike to me and I don't have the skills to identify them :(

Elbert said:

Nice captures. The first two look like Orangetips (Anthocharis cardamines) to me, which is surprising since, at least in Europe they are a sprin species, typically active April-May. The last two are Clouded yellows I guess.

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They are from the Orangetips gang but of what I've searched, I think they of the dappled white (marble) families.

Some more butterflies from this autumn... The great thing is that if you go out early enough you'll find them with beads of dew on them this time of the year:






Also, I've tried some hand held focus stacking with the Olympus OM-1:

More great shots! Is that a Sigma 150 you're using?

Thank you.

Yeah, the Sigma 150 f2.8 O.I.S.
I really really like this lens for macro as it is very sharp, focuses fast (for a macro lens) and has great working distance compared to the 105s while not being much heavier/larger.

Only downside is that I wish it was an S or C or A type lens so I could use the dock to change the focus limiter settings as I find the default ones a bit too restrictive (ideally I would like a focus limiter from mfd to about 1m).

I think I am developing a taste for yellow/orange/brown color palette this autumn