Author: Shellie

As I mentioned in the Sunflower post a while back, we saw something rather unique during that session!

While were were busy taking photos along the sunflower field a few pieces of farm machinery went by on the road right next to us.  Each time they drove by it looked like a flock of birds would take flight for a while before landing in the trees again right across the road.  Well, the young lady and her daughter that I was working with declared that they were not birds but butterflies!  What?  Butterflies?  Sure enough, we went over to check them out and butterflies were covered the top branches of the trees!  Now, I have seen hatching’s of little yellow and white butterflies but never monarch (?) butterflies – if this was a hatching…maybe they were migrating.  (?)  I don’t know.  What I do know is that it was amazing to watch them fly around and to see them stationary in the trees.

So, below is my attempt to capture the butterflies high up in the tree with a mere 50mm lens, followed by a few more photos taken during the session.  🙂