Now that I have been in Maryland since April, I have been spending a lot of time getting the new house ready and, coupled with COVID restrictions, haven’t spent a lot of time looking for photo subjects. The landscape is very different here as it is made up of a lot of farmland. Being close to to the Chesapeake Bay will give me a lot of new subjects to photograph. I have found that there are a lot of wildlife refuges in the area. The first one I visited was Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge, which is known for its butterflies. I knew that there wouldn’t be many butterflies there the time of year I visited but I wanted to do some research on the refuge. There were only two butterflies there that I could find, and after chasing them (they are always moving), I finally got a few shots of this butterfly. In all of my years of photographing, I had never shot a butterfly before (hard to believe) but I am sure I wiil be getting more in the future.