Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2021/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for looking, Don.? I couldn't match the butterfly to any of the known black swallowtails because of the orange/red spots near the wing tips on the upper side of the wings.? The only one I could find with those spots is the Red Spotted Purple, and it is not a swallowtail. On 9/9/21 4:15 PM, Don Dory via LUG wrote: > The 60 does deliver more detail. Your tattered butterfly looks like the > swallowtails I captured in Mississippi in the very late 50's. > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 3:16 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> > wrote: > >> When I want to get serious about close-up shots, I get out the Leica-R >> 60mm Macro-Elmarit lens. I got two interesting images with it today. >> The first is a sharp image of our common Carpenter Bee on a Buddleia >> bloom. >> >> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210909-DSCF2880-Enhanced.JPG.html >> >> The second is interesting because the subject, a rather tattered dark >> butterfly, is one I have not seen before. The orange/red wing tip spots >> indicate that it is probably a Red Spotted Purple. If anyone has a >> different opinion, I would be open to their suggestion. >> >> >> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210909-DSCF2904-Enhanced.JPG.html >> >> Ignore the lens information shown in the camera data. I didn't bother >> to update the manual data input. >> >> -- >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA