About the photographs

I began taking photographs of butterflies back when ‘digital’ had something to do with fingers, not cameras. My first digital camera was a Nikon 950, and many butterfly photographs on this site are taken with that camera.

Nikon digital cameras are blessed with particularly good macro capabilities, and my digital macro photos quickly were better than any I had taken with my old SLR and a macro lens. It also helps that with a digital camera, I take more than a hundred photos a day, without worrying about the cost of developing. Sometimes I have the pleasant problem of having too many photos to choose from.

In 2005, I became the proud owner of a Nikon D70 digital SLR and have taken more than 10,000 photos with it each year. I used a Tamron 90mm macro lens in 2005–2006, but in 2007 I purchased a Tamron 180mm macro lens and a good tripod and I carry both with me in the field nearly all the time.

All the photos are taken of in natural light. All the insects are alive (except the ones eaten by other insects!). And the images are real — no Photoshop montages here!