This is our 5th Dainty Swallowtail to eclose this year :-) Our kids called this one "Twilight"

taken near Amay, AO, Italy

I had the opportunity to visit Monarch Butterfly Festival 2011 in Navarre, Florida last weekend. The weather was so beautiful. I have taken few different butterfly shots which I will be posting them soon.

Till then.....enjoy this beautiful lady.

Note: This is NOT a blue looking butterfly even some bluish color on the wings. I have changed the white balance to get the overall blue effects. :-)

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Camera: Nikon D300s

Lens: Tamron 90mm Sp Di f2.8

ISO:200

Exposure: 1/60

Aperture: f/11

White Balance: Tungsten

Flash: Camera Flash

Exp Compensation: +5

Situation: Handheld

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Butterfly World, Coral Springs, FL

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Surprised how well the 12-32 worked, and how even f/5.6 provided some nice background separation.

"Meadow Argus", thanks Christina for the identification

Sesia apiformis, Aegeria apiformis

A close-up shot of a butterfly in Bomassa, northern #Congo. Bomassa is the base camp for the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park (NNNP). The NNNP covers over 4,000km² of intact lowland rainforest in northern #Congo, harboring important populations of large mammals, including forest elephants, western lowland gorillas and chimpanzees.

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Farfalla

Butterfly

23. If I was beautiful ...Poland

Sony SLT A55V + Tamron Di Macro 90mm...

Cat: MACRO...

© 2015 Zbigniew Walkiewicz...

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Nikon d7k + Nikkor 60 mm 2.8,

stack from 16 frames at f/10 iso 100 1/13sec daylight

Il Fritillary Spotted minore (Melitaea trivia) è una farfalla del Nymphalidae famiglia. Si trova nella parte meridionale della Ecozona paleartica. In Europa si è talvolta chiamato "deserto fritillary", ma questo nome si riferisce più precisamente al nordafricano relativo M. deserticola. L'apertura alare è 15-23 mm.

The Lesser Spotted Fritillary (Melitaea trivia) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in the southern part of the Palearctic ecozone. In Europe it is sometimes called "desert fritillary", but this name more accurately refers to the North African relative M. deserticola.The wingspan is 15–23 mm.

Grey Hairstreak?

Speckled wood butterfly closeups. Focus stacked using zerene.

Hard shoot this one - the butterfly was on a patio table and I was sitting in a sun chair.

This shot(s) is at 5:1 FF

butterfly

The Glanville fritillary (Melitaea didyma)is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family.

Macroglossum before its trump reaches into the flower..

This is a field stack of 20 images. The Butterfly was alive and in it's natural habitat.

Canon 600D, MP-E65, MT-24EX, difuzer.

f/5, 1/200, ISO 100, MUP, focus stacking (20 exposures), tripod, macro focusing rail, wired remote shutter control