lies, damned lies and (butterf)lies

Plant your garden to attract pollinators they said.  Watch them all flock to your blooms they said...

Well, we did.  Our garden is full of carefully selected and curated planting, intended to attract those most beautiful of beasts - the butterflies.

Oh they do come alright.  Then they flit around nervously, maybe landing for a microsecond or two on one of those oh-so carefully chosen flowers before getting airborne and zooming over the fence into next door's garden, made entirely of...

CONCRETE!!

There's just no pleasing them!

Which makes it all the more satisfying when I can actually get one in frame long enough to compose, expose and focus an image.  Here's a cabbage white and orange skipper I managed to photograph recently.

Olympus OM-D E-M1 mk2, Olympus 100-400 f5-6.3 at 400mm
1/250th of a second at f11, ISO 400
handheld

Olympus OM-D E-M1 mk2, OM System 90mm f3.5 macro
1/200th of a second at f8, ISO 400
handheld

Olympus OM-D E-M1 mk2, OM System 90mm f3.5 macro
1/400th of a second at f8, ISO 400
handheld

Here's this week's video.  You might want to watch it as it's about trains tracks (no, really) and is also my last video for a couple pf months.  I need a rest!