PrettyTiny Film Company -- random pix (Apr. 27)

[Alliecat]

Thanks so much 
Yes, fewer mosquitoes.  But, still a few.  It's been down to minus-1 and they STILL aren't dead -- WTF!!
Some of those swing photos actually needed a ton of work to fix the difficult lighting.  I always swore I'd never get into "digital manipulation"... I still try to do as little as possible.  You didn't see all the totally washed-out dark-setting ones!! 
The Crown Flower sounds marvellous.  Do you have any photos of it?  I remember being thrilled to find out there were Monarchs in Hawai'i.
It's not hard to get them to "pose" when they're just hatched, because they aren't ready to fly.  It takes hours for the wings to really harden.  And then if it's cooler as it usually is when I shoot these, they're not too energetic either.  I think it has to be about 13C for them to get warm enough to fly.

Speaking of butterflies... a few more...
Sorting out some old photos after my laptop had a paroxysm and rearranged ALL the desktop icons (WHYYYY????)... so here's a memory of some (slightly) warmer weather and a few more pix of Abbi from a shoot I did a while ago.