These butterflys are busy laying eggs on an old cactus bloom. San Diego California

For my Friend and talented photographer Martha

Thank you for your warm Testimonial for my modest photos!

It is a wonderful photographer, I invite all to see her Photostream!

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Butterfly pairing

butterfly

This image won a First Place Blue Ribbon at this year's Wisconsin State Fair Photo Competition in the butterfly/moths division.

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Argynnis paphia

just another early morning in the field, found these two beautys resting and the light was just right

SAMSUNG CSC

If there is anything so beautiful and helpless as a butterfly I don't know what it is. But it carries on the wind and knows where it's going.

Panagor 90mm f2.8 macro

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Trying to get into Macro :)

Nice backlit butterfly - Whisby nature reserve

Ein weiterer Versuch einen Schmetterling zu fotografieren :-)

It was difficult to get this record

Pict Shot with a Vintage Lens (albinar 28mm Macro )

and extension Tube, for experimenting

Green veined white butterfly enjoying some refreshment. One from the archives I'm afraid...

Aperture Value: f/14

No Crop

Handheld

I was struggling to get a picture with the wings open when two landed and both opened up

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