Rhyothemis graphiptera

in mid flight

Graphic Flutterrer -Rhyothemis graphiptera - Tewantin, Qld.

Thanks to [https://www.flickr.com/photos/forumcz] for the corrected identification. This is an Eros Blue. Dozens of these tiny (thumbnail-sized) blue butterflies accompanied me on my hike near the Matterhorn on Saturday! I learned afterwards that the brown ones flying around too weren't in fact another species, but the female, this being the male.

Good morning everyone. Just a short video taken yesterday at Lacey Pond to show how difficult it can be to get still shots of a Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes). Not only does one have to contend with the constant "fluttering" that swallowtails typically do while feeding, but to make makes worse was a stiff NE breeze.

In the end I did get a few nice pics of this same butterfly, which I'll post in another day or so.

Thank you for stopping by...and I hope you're having a most pleasant weekend.

Lacey

PS...you might have to click on the video a couple of times to get it to play. Sorry about that...flickr glitch of some kind.

Spicebush Swallowtail From Maria's Garden, NJ

Rhyothemis graphitera

One of many nice memories from Svalbard last summer.

We lay on the marsh in the midnight sun, and got a couple of beautiful red-necked phalaropes (Phalaropus lobatus) really close in their fun search for food.

Even though the camera insisted on focusing on the water more than on the bird on this one, I just had to keep it.

(Svømmesnipe in Norwegian)

My album of images from Svalbard here.

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Boreal Chickadee

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I am almost believing this butterfly is real maybe that's why I get so drawn into a fantasy world.

Well so far my week isn't turning out as expected. and I am getting well grumpy because of it, I once again understand why I am Helen she keeps my demons away and my guardian angel close.

Think I need to take her shopping tomorrow and possibly tomorrow evening go and have a look at the Christmas lights in London while I wait for my daughter return from her night out.

Pinkshell Azalea

Rhododendron vaseyi

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Papilio glaucus

Sorry for the few days of quiet. My husband and I traveled to Savannah for a long weekend. I'll be working on those pics while still putting up some others I've got cashed up.

Street capture [Patan - Nepal]

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Mamukala Wetlands, Kakadu National Park, NT

Look!!! It has a very cute face!! :D

It was elegantly flying from flower to flower.

Milwaukee Museum Butterfly Wing.

EXPLORED!

She is so amazing and cute! If you ever happen to find them! Get them! Ive never been so excited about one doll sense the first Monster High Dolls came out! I highly suggest them because they are so much fun!

Standing out in the hot sun for 90 minutes trying to catch a monarch in flight. Two hundred pics later, I had two inflight shots in focus and a bunch of them still sitting on the flower! LOL! These guys are harder than a hummingbird to catch flying. I'm not kidding. I sweated my tootsies off trying this. It's not enough anymore just to get a good shot of them on a flower. I have to keep challenging myself to get the hard shots.

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I didn't have a macro lens with me but I was very happy getting this quality of a shot with my !00 - 400 telephoto lens (from about 6-7 feet away)

Orange tape buffeted by the wind at Southsea seafront with the lighthouse catching the sun.

Happy Fence Friday everyone.

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Here is a card I made using oil and re-inkers for the bkg.

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Postcard collage, made 11/02/21.

.....around my garden, pretty against the blue sky and lovely in the sunlight, monarch butterlies enjoying the Eucryphia flowers, every year they arrive at this time. It was a warm 27C the day this was taken.

North Canterbury, NZ

Explored - thank you.

w/Voigtlander Nokton 58mm f/1.4 SL II

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

~ Shakti Gawain

Anytime a butterfly lands on a vibrant bloom, I consider it a happier day.

Spring is only 7 weeks away!

Phil did not see his shadow, so we will have an early Spring!!! Yay!

Ruby-throated hummingbird fluttering with its wings

This was part of the rose bouquet I gave my wife for Valentine's day,

Le papillon

Naître avec le printemps, mourir avec les roses,

Sur l'aile du zéphyr nager dans un ciel pur,

Balancé sur le sein des fleurs à peine écloses

S'enivrer de parfums, de lumières et d'azur,

Secouant, jeune encor, la poudre de ses ailes,

S'envoler comme un souffle aux voûtes éternelles

Voilà du papillon le destin enchanté !

Il ressemble au désir, qui jamais ne se pose,

Et sans se satisfaire, effleurant toute chose,

Retourne enfin au ciel chercher la volupté !

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) Nouvelles méditations poétiques