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I am one of nature's crappy photographers. For me, photography is the method by which I acquire reference material for paintings--there are brilliant artists of the camera out there, and I am absolutely not one of 'em. Speak to me of light indexes and shutter speeds, and I begin to pray for an airstrike to divert attention away from my end of the conversation--and on the off chance that I manage to actually get a photo taken in focus and correctly, without my wrists jittering like a ferret on crank, the result will be workmanlike but uninspired. I don't take photos to make beautiful photographs, I take them to make paintings.

However. Proving, perhaps, that if you fire an infinite number of bullets at an infinite number of monkeys, you will eventually kill Shakespeare, even I manage the occasional nifty photo. I was proud of this one. I had chased this butterfly around a field for about ten minutes, running in random circles defined by butterfly flight path, leading any observer to believe I'd gone completely barmy, and when the little beast actually posed on a leaf for me, I felt so strangely privileged that I wanted to share the result.

Description
I am one of nature's crappy photographers. For me, photography is the method by which I acquire reference material for paintings--there are brilliant artists of the camera out there, and I am absolutely not one of 'em. Speak to me of light indexes and shutter speeds, and I begin to pray for an airstrike to divert attention away from my end of the conversation--and on the off chance that I manage to actually get a photo taken in focus and correctly, without my wrists jittering like a ferret on crank, the result will be workmanlike but uninspired. I don't take photos to make beautiful photographs, I take them to make paintings.

However. Proving, perhaps, that if you fire an infinite number of bullets at an infinite number of monkeys, you will eventually kill Shakespeare, even I manage the occasional nifty photo. I was proud of this one. I had chased this butterfly around a field for about ten minutes, running in random circles defined by butterfly flight path, leading any observer to believe I'd gone completely barmy, and when the little beast actually posed on a leaf for me, I felt so strangely privileged that I wanted to share the result.