Bio

Photographing butterflies has been my passion for over 40 years. In 2008 I collected together 450 photographs and had them published in a book called Papillons de Montagnes et de Collines (Mountain and hillside butterflies). 

In the last 12 years I have taken many more photos and have been encouraged by friends to share them with a wider audience – hence this website. As a teenager I read a book called Beningfield’s Butterflies which consisted of paintings of many U.K. butterflies resting on suitable herbage. A challenge I set myself was to take naturally posed photographs of butterflies in a similar vein. The painter has the advantage of only including that peripheral detail he deems enhancing to the main subject. The photograph includes everything in the camera viewfinder and so the photographer’s task is to minimise intrusion of extraneous objects (grass stems, leaves and branches in this case) which would distract from the main subject. He also has to obtain a reasonably sharp image of the butterfly – not always easy when even a mild breeze catching the butterflies’ wings means the subject rapidly moves in and out of focus. How well I met this challenge can be judged by the results.