Best viewed large for detail.

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

hand-dyed superwash Merino fingering weight

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.

Puffinus gavia

Cook Strait Ferry, Marlborough, New Zealand.

P120_1992

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!

Port Fairy. Victoria.

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

Photoblog post

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

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.

Port Fairy Pelagic. Victoria.

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

Officially my first photograph with my own DSLR. finally.

Canon EOS 400D.

old model, but it does some great work :)

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.

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.

Original mill built in 1790 to cut wood for Mackinac Island.