Mottled Emigrant

Thank you, Rithmini Weerakkody. Your comments are very welcome and your knowledge of butterflies is excellent. I have learned a valuable lesson from our conversation. In Project Noah's rules, a little brightening of a photo is allowed, but there is no mention of "darkening". Now I know why. Since you brought this to my attention, a few days ago, I have played around with some old photos and I can see that a little brightening sometimes helps, but darkening is always a disaster! So, I won't be doing any more "darkening" - much better just to go out and take a better picture. Thank you again.

Hi Rithmini Weerakkody, thank you very much for your comment. When I first saw this butterfly, it was in a shaded area under some mango trees and I set my camera lens aperture to f/11 and the exposure time to 1/200 sec That setting would have given me good pictures, but unfortunately, the butterfly would not settle long enough for me to get a photo and it flew away. I followed it for a short distance and it landed once or twice on some foliage where I quickly took some snapshots. When I looked at the photos, at home on my laptop, I realized that the butterfly was out from under the shade of the trees and was in bright sunlight. In my hurry to get some photos, I forgot to adjust my camera settings and all of the photos were much too bright. So, for this spotting, I darkened them. Your comment made me realize that I had darkened them far too much. So, I have removed the dark pictures and replaced them with the original "too bright" ones. Thank you once again for your comment.