Created 5-Nov-09
Modified 28-Jul-10
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I really enjoy macro and close up photography and Butterflies are my favourite subject. I live close to some very good sites on the limestone hills around Morecambe Bay and I go there as often as I can during the spring and summer months.
In 2008, we spent a week in The Dordogne area of France. This was an amazing place for butterflies both for variety of species and numbers.
I take all my photos in the animals' natural habitat, using a handholding technique. I never use a tripod or monopod mainly because these fast moving creatures would be long gone before I could get set up. However, I'm thinking that to get the very best quality of image a tripod may be a useful piece of equipment and I may try this next season.
Many of the Fritillary species which I enjoy photographing so much are becoming desperately rare in Britain now and it's often difficult just to find them let alone get a half decent shot!!
In 2008, we spent a week in The Dordogne area of France. This was an amazing place for butterflies both for variety of species and numbers.
I take all my photos in the animals' natural habitat, using a handholding technique. I never use a tripod or monopod mainly because these fast moving creatures would be long gone before I could get set up. However, I'm thinking that to get the very best quality of image a tripod may be a useful piece of equipment and I may try this next season.
Many of the Fritillary species which I enjoy photographing so much are becoming desperately rare in Britain now and it's often difficult just to find them let alone get a half decent shot!!
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