I have many fond childhood memories of capturing Tiger Swallowtails in bug catchers to admire them, then let them go. As a child, I was really big into collecting insects. However, we also tried to let many go before they expired. It was never my goal to kill them, that I remember. But I used to see these yellow creatures fluttering around all the bushes outside our apartment. Nowadays, I rarely see them. I saw a few in one day while out testing a new camera, and got this perfectly timed shot of the butterfly feeding. There's no lens EXIF data, because I shoot through an adapter with Canon lenses.
Dragonflies are fascinating subjects for me. They fly around, flitting from place to place. I want to photograph one in flight, but their erratic flight pattern makes that a challenge. I did capture this one, though, as it sotpped to rest on the very end of a branch. I couldn't help but feel like it was staring me down as I snapped a few photos of it.
This was taken somewhere between Max Patch near Hot Springs, NC, and Hartford, TN. Don't know where. I literally stuck my hands out the top of my car,carefully lined up the shot using the A7R's adjustable display, and took the picture. Luckily, nobody was in front of or behind us, because I did this numerous times.
