Canon Pre capture mode.

Butterflies numbers are low near where I live again this year. Although our garden is full of plants supposedly attractive to insects there's not much happening. Today is hot and sunny here and so I went for a look at an area of Knapweed which is attractive to butterflies and although I saw Holly Blue, Common Blue, Small, Green Veined and Large Whites, a Red Admiral and plenty of Meadow Browns the larger coloured butterflies such as Comma, Peacock, Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell and Painted lady remain scarce.
The one painted lady seen was persistently paying attention to the Knapweed plant and therefore gave me a chance to use Canon's 'Pre Capture' mode again. It's still far from easy manipulating the situation for a shot because you have to isolate your subject from cluttered backgrounds or the effect is compromised.
This involves waiting for your subject to land on a suitable flower, preferably above the other flowers and then wait for take-off. However, wind is then a problem because it ruins focus by moving the subject, so patience is needed....



Canon R6 MK2 + Canon RF 100-500 f7.1 lens.

5000/sec - 2000 ISO - 238mm