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    Small pearl Bordered Fritillaries Wyre Forest
    One of those “red letter days”- whatever it means..Loads of garden stuff with a whole family of GSWoodpeckers and Nuthatches with young.Got some nice Spotted Flycatcher stuff at the nest and a load of limestone plants including 4 orchid species, and a dragonfly I,ve been after for longer than I care to mention. Loads of butterfly stuff.
    I have the knack of finding the Small Pearl Bordered Fritts at roost, but this was something special. Only ever found singles. At about quarter to nine toniight I came a cross two of them disputing the right to sleep on the same juncus seed head. Never seen that before..
    They calmed down after a brief fluttering session .and sat facing each other. The daylight(should I say darkness – exposure was one eighth of a second at 800 ISO at f10..No way I could hold that.
    I ended up using a whole mix match of settings including flash fill, and had no tripod,
    I was really chuffed at the results. Sometimes it a;ll comes together
    A great day in all with enough to process with my slow old PSP for the next week or two !!
    This is just one of many- actually got some of them wing flapping.,which I, can put on later if anyone is interested..

    Nikon D7100
    Sigma 50 mm macro
    800 ISO
    Fill flash( on camera)
    EV-one stop
    60th sec(flash sync)@f 7.1
    Neat image.(hardly needed it)
    PP in Paint Shop Pro - levels
    Slight crop
    Sharpen on resize for web.
    Cheers
    JohnR
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    Great time in your neighborhood, glad you enjoy. Like the description, pose in the frame and details. Good light and natural colors. For my taste the BG tone could be different to separate from the perch (not an easy task). TFS.

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    Great find and great capture of these two! Lucky that they were both parallel to your camera and you got excellent details on both. I like how they appear to be facing off to each other, as you describe. Gives them character. Also the orange really pops out from the dark green bkgd. Well done!

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    Two nice poses and a great job of getting them both within your DOF - and under less than ideal circumstances, too! Very well done!

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    +Thanks people. Appreciated
    JohnR

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    It's great when it all comes together, wonderful ephemeral subject and hard work on the camera end. The composition is wonderful and I like the way the background is as well.

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