Category Archives: Butterflies

Marbled white butterfly in Yorkshire

The marbled whites were at their best today at Brockadale YWT reserve. This is one of the best places to see marbled white butterfly in Yorkshire as it is fairly small and the butterflies are concentrated in a single area. I had a productive couple of hours here today and managed some really nice images...

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Autumn sunshine, blackberries and comma butterflies

A fabulous warm autumn day today and I was stuck doing commercial edits! I managed to have 10 minutes with about half a dozen comma butterflies as they basked in the sunshine in between getting boozy on blackberry juice. I only had the X-Pro 1 to hand and couldn’t really get close enough for a...

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Butterfly explosion

Another baking August day and I think this year, more than any I can remember, has been a superb butterfly year. In our back garden stands a buddliea bush that must be a contender for the Guinness Book Of Records for the UK’s largest and it is smothered in butterflies just now. Mostly peacocks today,...

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Small Copper on Sea Holly

I’ve been playing with my new Fuji X Pro 1 which I bought to use in my commercial work but it is just lovely to carry around as a day-to-day camera. Here I used a x2 close-up filter on the 35 f1/4 to capture this small copper on sea holly among sand dunes on the...

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