Red Admiral taking flower nectar

First one I have seen this year. Still got the shot with contending against the wind

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Nikon D810 and Nikon af-s 24-70mm f2.8 G lens


Just shows how much detail can be kept ,even with sever cropping

Re: Red Admiral taking flower nectar

That is so lovely, Realspeed. Thank you.

Re: Red Admiral taking flower nectar

Beautiful set of photos -- such lovely detail

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Thank you both for the nice comments

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I would like to see the EXIF files for this one RS. It is probably my monitor, but it looks very soft to me?

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I didn't save it on my computer so don't have the exif data. Sorry. All I can say is the closeup was a crop of the lower one and size increased considerably. Wind was a big problem with the flower head swaying a couple of inches each way. This butterfly only there for about a minute or so by the time I got outside and the first of its type all year

More a case of grabbing any camera with a lens to hand from indoors and rushing outside while it was still there.

It is ok if one has time to compose with a macro lens and everything still and staying there, the ideal situation, but this was far from it