One of the "blues" and I have no idea which species. Pretty sure the only way to identify these things is to dunk in a jar of formaldehyde and send to a museum somewhere in London.
Which I do not want to do. Happy just to take photos thanks.
Anyway, the Nepali name for butterfly is Putali. Do whatever you want with that information.
These little guys are real favourites of mine. Was very excited to see them this morning, and for the rest of the morning we spotted them everywhere. The females have orange where the males have blue.
This fella gave us a good session, and waited patiently for us to take turns. Love the tiny little flourishes of colour that you just don't see until poking a macro lens into his orbit.
Some more #tulips making a show today. I forget anymore what these little fringed guys are called, but they are really pretty.
This was my morning today. Felt very nice to have this peaceful moment as our planet around the sun once again.
Working with Tashi this week to pull together a few extra images for his exhibition.
These little fellas were so hard to get close to. Every so often one will give up for a while and let you take a shot.
Turns out Tashi really really really enjoys having a macro lens to play with. This Sigma 105mm F2.8 was the first macro lens I bought for L-mount (although it comes in other varieties too). It opened up a whole new world for me. It's amazingly sharp.
Now it belongs to Tashi.
We're into the butterfly section of this journey. Could be here for a while!
A bunch more of the peach-creme tulips popped.
My others are lagging behind a little bit, probably another day or two.
A little update to the previous photo, a short post about Kumari and our brief moment of serenity taking photos with her.
We had an amazing morning. Cannot wait to share this little story in detail some day. For now, here's the culmination of our joy when Tashi got to photograph the hand of Kumari :)