I’m beginning to wonder if Mark Avery has even risen from his reading chair for the past fortnight as he posted three new book reviews to his blog this Sunday: Tessa Boase’s new “Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather,” Seán Lysaght’s “Eagle Country,” and an updated and reissued edition of David Lack’s classic 1956 work “Swifts in a Tower.”
Sandwiched among other useful guidebooks to the flora and fauna of the area was found a copy of The Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America.
After a solid week of some of the most intense photographic training and practice I have ever experienced in my life, I now lo longer find digiscoping an inapplicable technique for butterflies.
I was personally so thrilled at being given the opportunity to see and digiscope an image of this secretive little creature that I didn’t even bother to straighten the camera before depressing the shutter.