Photo of the Week: Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly

Not a cloud in the sky

09-01-2010 // NW Staff

cloudless sulphur butterly approaching a flower by Howard Cheek

 

HOWARD CHEEK SHOT 10 FRAMES per second to photograph this cloudless sulphur butterfly in flight in his Kempner, Texas, backyard. He used a Canon 1D Mark III with a 300mm lens, 1.4x teleconverter and a tripod.

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