wattsy Posted June 6, 2017 Share #1 Â Posted June 6, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) Some diminutive species native to the UK. All Portra 400 and 90 Macro Elmar-M uncropped. Â Green Hairstreak (Callophrys rubi) Â Â Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus) Â Â Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) Â Â Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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stuny Posted June 6, 2017 Share #2 Â Posted June 6, 2017 Very nice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Posted June 7, 2017 Share #3 Â Posted June 7, 2017 Oh, delicate and demanding. Common blue and not shown, female common blue are my favorites! Â Â Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted June 7, 2017 Author Share #4 Â Posted June 7, 2017 Oh, delicate and demanding. Common blue and not shown, female common blue are my favorites! Â Â Yes, the female Common Blue can be especially beautiful. I do have a recent photo of a rather nice "blue' female Common blue but I can't post it here because I used a Nikon camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Posted June 7, 2017 Share #5 Â Posted June 7, 2017 That is the one I saw in your Flickr gallery. Yes. No doubt, Nabokov would approve of your "collection."[emoji108] Â Â Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted June 7, 2017 Author Share #6 Â Posted June 7, 2017 That is the one I saw in your Flickr gallery. Yes. No doubt, Nabokov would approve of your "collection."[emoji108] Â Â There's no doubt he loved the little Blue butterflies, including the famous Karner Blue which, I believe, he himself classified whilst working at Harvard in the 1940s. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Posted June 7, 2017 Share #7  Posted June 7, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) There's no doubt he loved the little Blue butterflies, including the famous Karner Blue which, I believe, he himself classified whilst working at Harvard in the 1940s. Aha! Of all things transparent, you deserve the mantle of "Leica Lepidopterist!" You've tied one thread from photography to literature. Good show! I remember when Nabokov's Butterflies was published in 2000 (I had to look it up), but I never gave it any attention, so thanks for sparking new interest and knowledge. I see Yale UP published his scientific butterfly drawings in Fine Lines last year, too. There's also Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius. See what the Leica Lepidopterist has started? I warrant you must be fleet of foot and patient at the same time to capture a Blue with a Macro-Elmar-M. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted June 8, 2017 Author Share #8  Posted June 8, 2017 Aha! Of all things transparent, you deserve the mantle of "Leica Lepidopterist!" You've tied one thread from photography to literature. Good show! I remember when Nabokov's Butterflies was published in 2000 (I had to look it up), but I never gave it any attention, so thanks for sparking new interest and knowledge. I see Yale UP published his scientific butterfly drawings in Fine Lines last year, too. There's also Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius. See what the Leica Lepidopterist has started? I warrant you must be fleet of foot and patient at the same time to capture a Blue with a Macro-Elmar-M.   You are far too kind. The Brian Boyd Nabokov's Butterflies is a wonderful book. I read Kurt Johnson's Nabokov's Blues only recently and it is fascinating, if a little wrapped up at times in taxonomic matters. Fine Lines is on my list of books to buy this year.  . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted June 8, 2017 Author Share #9  Posted June 8, 2017 Whilst in the thread I can add another view of the Green Hairstreak. This one has been cropped a bit (the diminutive size of these creatures really exposes the limitations of the 1:3 maximum reproduction ratio of the Macro Elmar).  Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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