White-letter Hairstreak
I'd like to claim the 'arty' effect was deliberate but actually I messed up the exposure and ended up with a contre-jour result that required much more post-processing than I'm normally comfortable with to get the butterfly close to what I saw. Given the effort of two visits and several hours waiting to finally spy one come down to the now sparse creeping thistle, below the Hollingbury Park Elms (E.Sussex near Brighton), I'll forgo restraint and not confine this to the virtual bin; at least until I can get a better one.
White-letter Hairstreak
I'd like to claim the 'arty' effect was deliberate but actually I messed up the exposure and ended up with a contre-jour result that required much more post-processing than I'm normally comfortable with to get the butterfly close to what I saw. Given the effort of two visits and several hours waiting to finally spy one come down to the now sparse creeping thistle, below the Hollingbury Park Elms (E.Sussex near Brighton), I'll forgo restraint and not confine this to the virtual bin; at least until I can get a better one.