Widespread on the island but not easy to find or photograph.

You can be right. Landscape is a god thing, but portrait format is good for book covers and in between text, so I always make sure I make some of these.

Taken against the blue sky to find a complimentary match to the orange colours of the butterfly.

Wohl kein Makro....

Sort of got tiered of all the closeups and took this with the kit lens.

ja ja ja..
You are probably right.
One have to experiment, though.

Sicher, ich kann Deutsch verstehen, schreibe es aber nicht so gut.

Und Ja, das ist rigtig, aber muss man unbedingt das Motiv isolieren?

Why do you think that? I mean.... I have tons of well isolated images of the Emperor on any kind of background. Normally I use the macro lens, but in this case I tried to widen the dynamic range of the picture by using the wide angel lens. Anyhow... Im not sure if the wide angel is useful for close ...

The males seem to be done but there are still some fresh females around.
Lured form the treetops with banana bait.

No tripod, handheld... I was sitting on my knees in the shallow water among the reeds and supported the camera by fixing one elbow at one knee. 3/4 of the pics were unsharp.

Rather wet of course.

It was overcast and shutterspeeds were dangerously low.