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One of those teeny tiny little butterflies that might be a sapphire or might not and my only reference for Bhutanese blues doesn't actually show the upper wings for most of the species.
I do love how every flash of blue fluttering by could be something totally new to my eyes.
Seconds later I got a cheeky glimpse of a Heliophorus (Sapphire).
I feel I've wasted my life when instead I could be sitting in a cow paddock at 2900m looking for little flappy blues.
What an amazing day! It was coolish and very damp this morning in Trongsa. I spotted one of these fellas just posing, next to the female. Then saw another. And as the morning progressed I realised they were everywhere :)
I was too slow to capture the female. They flitter off quickly. But the boys just hang about and show off their colours.
Azure Sapphire
(Heliophorus moorei)
I really wish I didn't have to make a living and instead could just wander the Himalayas looking for meadows where butterflies enjoy the morning light.
Azure Sapphire here, male.
@ewen@photog.socialA little reminder that I wrote a few words about how I shoot these images, and why Bhutan is such a peach of a place for butterfly photography.
