Promethea silkmoth

it was just about the size of my hand.

I had to super-enhance this to see anything in this photo, the flash did a strange thing and only half fired.

that or my hair was over it.

it was my birthday!

I liked all the wing angles in this one!

Meadow Pipit~Anthus pratensis

Charlie races along the dunes and the birds seem to hover above him..what beauties.

They have a fluttering 'parachute' display flight. In winter they are quite gregarious and gather in small flocks, often invisible among the vegetation, suddenly flying up with typical jerky flight.

Meadow pipit numbers in the UK have been declining since the mid-1970s, resulting in this species being included on the amber list of conservation concern.

Botanical gardens in Fort Worth.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Best Viewed Large

The deadline got extended so I made myself one too! I LOVE this skirt, so comfy. I used some kind of cottony knit for the skirt and bamboo knit for the top. super cozy. Since dresses are a pain while nursing, I made myself a nursing dress. The top has two drape-y criss cross panels with a half-tank top underneath, so you can lift the under-tank and pull a panel over and nurse. I got the shirt idea from one I got at anthropologie that had a similar design but without the convenient half tank underneath.

Met this Butterfly sunning her wings on the grounds of the WV State Capitol.

Great Spangled Fritillary?

And more butterflies. They looked pretty on the little red flowers

San Diegos Wild Animal Park's Butterfly Jungle. March 2010

I took this picture on Memorial Day in Santa Cruz California, USA.

My camera was a Nikon N2000 with a f/1.4 50mm lens.

I was experimenting with some Kodachrome 64 film that I would only use again sparingly.

I do like it for it's color reproduction and detail.

Blogged here: cuckooblue.co.uk/post/59718552681/fluttery-quilting-fail-...

I really like this collection of fabrics called Flutter by The Quilted Fish for Riley Blake Designs. Loving blue and orange together just now. But when I laid it all out to make a quilt, somehow it just didn't speak to me the way I thought it would. After having a little play and pairing up the patterns, I decided to have some zippered -pouch/coin-purse-making fun. And fun it was!

A gathering of winged friends..

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Austin Botanical Gardens

One of my early chances to experiment with my camera was at the Austin Botanical Gardens, where this group of butterflies was kind enough to hang around for me to capture them.

Camera: Nikon D3100

Lens: Nikor 55-200mm AF

Shutter: 1/800

Aperture: f4.0

Focal: 55mm

ISO: 1600

Edited in Adobe Camera Raw

Someone else was in a throwing mood

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those lashes...

Variable Flutterer - Rhyothemis variegata

Thailand, Phang Nga, Similan islands, 12/11/2013

had to follow this guy to a few flowers before he was finally still enough for a decent shot. felt like a butterfly paparazzo.

Male southern brown-throated weaver (Ploceus castanops) in Liwonde National Park, Malawi

@Mio Tsugawa

Flutter harder and you'll make it onto that leaf.

Ameland

This Black tailed Godwit kept pausing to have a flutter whilst feeding.

Taken from a car parked on the hard at Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk.

Ref: 6135

The "Flutter" live butterflies exhibit at Pearlridge, a Tweetup hosted by Melissa "Melissa808" Chang.

Photoblog post

Butterfly in motion. I like how the blur came out--it looks like the butterfly is disturbing the atmosphere as it flutters its wings :) This was taken at the Butterfly Garden at Strong National Museum of Play (Rochester, NY). Prints of this photo are available here.