{"id":5631,"date":"2026-04-28T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/?p=5631"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:02:27","slug":"sage-and-swallowtail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/sage-and-swallowtail\/","title":{"rendered":"Sage and swallowtail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we went up our local hill carrying telephoto setups, basically our heaviest gear; it was the first time for me to carry the A7RV with the FE 100-400mm GM lens up there, because the damn thing is so heavy and awkward to carry when hiking. Biljana took the R5 with the RF 70-200 f\/4L. The only things worth taking pictures of there at the moment, unfortunately, require either a telephoto or a macro lens. It seemed to have been for nought, because the butterflies were too active and not landing; they just flew chaotically above us, and when I got a good series of a hummingbird moth, the background was too close and the compositions were therefore chaotic and disorderly and I couldn’t use them.<\/p>\n

On the way back from the top, however, we lucked out – a perfect swallowtail was feeding on a sage blossom, and kept doing it for long enough for both of us to get several series.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>Here are Biljana’s whole album<\/a>, and mine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we went up our local hill carrying telephoto setups, basically our heaviest gear; it was the first time for me to carry the A7RV with the FE 100-400mm GM lens up there, because the damn thing is so heavy … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5639,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danijel.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}