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Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus f. icarinus)

Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus f. icarinus)

A Common blue male not so common because it lacks an eye spot in the forewing cell. This ocelle is used to differentiate several Blue species, it can be difficu...
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A Common blue male not so common because it lacks an eye spot in the forewing cell. This ocelle is used to differentiate several Blue species, it can be difficult to not confuse this form with other species.
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Canon EOS 7D Mark II

settings

settings

Aperture f/10 ISO 400 Shutter 1/250 Focal Length 100/1

upload_date

upload_date

Jul, 2016

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44

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Awards

Peer Award

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Nice soft light, attractive picture, could be improved with cropping - maybe from all sides except RHS, or perhaps even into vertical format, in my opinion.

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Lovely image! Nicely done! Welcome to ViewBug! Looking forward to seeing more:)

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