Nobody Expected Wings
I was hunting something else entirely — camera ready, eyes trained on a completely different corner of the garden — when this one simply landed in front of me and ruined my plans. That's the thing about chasing subjects: the ones you're after know you're coming, and the ones you're not don't care. Richmond birdwing, sitting there with those impossible colours like it had nowhere better to be — velvet black, that green you only believe when you see it, a body dipped in yellow with a single drop of red at the throat. I had about three seconds to forget everything I'd been planning and just press the button. No setup, no patience, no strategy — just luck dressed as a butterfly. Sometimes the best photographs aren't the ones you hunt. They're the ones that hunt you back.
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