Looking close at a male Sonoran Blue butterfly
This is a close shot of the gorgeous wings of a small Sonoran Blue (Philotes sonorensis) butterfly. This is a male. It's interesting that the lady butterflies in this photo are even more brilliantly colored than the gentlemen, which reverses the usual pattern with butterflies and ducks that the males are more brightly colored than the females. This is a tight crop of a wider image, see my [Next] photo (here) for the original. I looked for a female butterfly or to get closer to a male, but this shot from last Tuesday is the best I could manage this week. It will do as my photo for the Macro Mondays group, with the theme of "Orange and Blue" - though I'm not sure if the blue quite covers 80% of the image? Remove it if you have to, and HMM anyway! (San Marcos Pass, 28 March 2017)
Looking close at a male Sonoran Blue butterfly
This is a close shot of the gorgeous wings of a small Sonoran Blue (Philotes sonorensis) butterfly. This is a male. It's interesting that the lady butterflies in this photo are even more brilliantly colored than the gentlemen, which reverses the usual pattern with butterflies and ducks that the males are more brightly colored than the females. This is a tight crop of a wider image, see my [Next] photo (here) for the original. I looked for a female butterfly or to get closer to a male, but this shot from last Tuesday is the best I could manage this week. It will do as my photo for the Macro Mondays group, with the theme of "Orange and Blue" - though I'm not sure if the blue quite covers 80% of the image? Remove it if you have to, and HMM anyway! (San Marcos Pass, 28 March 2017)