I don’t chase little blue butterflies much anymore. I have learned the hard way that you rarely get the shot you would like and I have enough pics of a closed blue, generally tipped over on its side somehow, thank you very much! However, on my last day in the field at the Oostvaarderplassen in Holland, this one posed irresitably. I think it might be the Mazarine Blue, which is said to be a common Blue through-out Europe. It is certainly a well worn specimen, but it has the blue over the body that seems, at least in my brief study of internet resources, to give it away. I could certainly be persuaded otherwise by anyone more in touch with European butterflies 🙂

Canon SX50HS at 1800mm equivalent field of view. Program with iContrast and -1/3EV exposure compensation. Processed on then go with PicSay Pro on the Nexus 7 2013.