Damselfly & Butterfly

Just a couple from College Lake Nature Reserve in Bulbourne, Herts today.

1 : Common Blue Damselfly



2 : Speckled Wood in Color. Another crack at this one, the reserve seemed to only have two different butterflies residing there, the Speckled Wood, and Meadow Brown, somewhat in abundance here.



Very disappointing when it came to bird life again, did not capture anything close up, think they seen me coming again .

Nicely captured Its hard to get pictures of insects without a macro lens but you did good xx

Thanks Daisy. The Sigma Lens i use is Macro but 200mm/300mm, not really ideal for super close up captures of insects, one day hopefully i will be able to afford maybe a 50mm/100mm macro lens

Have you tried reversing your lens Its a tad fidley but works well..

really like number 1!

I cannot say i have Daisy, that thought did cross my mind a few days ago but i just dismissed doing it, as i didnt think it was something i could do that would work. Problem with me doing this also is my eyesight when it comes to manual focusing, its no where near perfect, and im all fingers and thumbs too. I still might give it a shot though

Great job, love the Damselfly the best, but both good shots.

Both are very nice shots, but i especially like the first shot, that blue is amazing

nice..................

Thankyou Ken, Musky and Cakey

It is a very nice blue for this common Damsel, most damsel and dragonflies have amazing colouring, nature at its best