Common blue butterfly. A fairly rare visitor to the garden

Taken at the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster, CO.

The gardener's arch enemy!

Visita mi blog....

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Slowish shutter,fast wing beat

Holly blue butterfly closeup taken at 3:1

Holly blue butterfly taken at 3:1 uncropped, focus stacked from 2 pics. Had to stand on a sun chair for this shot which was a bit precarious :)

See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/213790440/ for a crop from this shot

Gatekeeper butterfly. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Durley

Unused shot from 2007 - still sorting these out :). A comma butterfly sunning itself pharted

A cropped version of a photo i took a few months back

I'm stalking the last of the summer butterflies. They won't sit still for but a moment!

Macro shoot in butterfly house of wilhelma stuttgart

Bragança Paulista/SP, Brasil, março de 2014

Feeding Butterfly

Sony A350 - Sigma 105mm macro lens.

Photoshop & Lightroom.

Un uomo può uccidere un fiore, due fiori, tre... Ma non può contenere la primavera.

Gandhi

:) We just had a great time chasing these buties....

Bannerghatta Butterfly Park.

All are taken with Nikon D200 + 80-200mm f2.8 lens + Canon 500D Macro filter.

Hope you like it!! You will find some great shots of the same cuties at my friend Srini's stream too

www.flickr.com/photos/gsrini/ ...[ may be he is busy getting them reday !!]

captured on yesterday's trip to the natural history museum!

A shadow of a flower appears in a wing : )

Saw at a park of Taiwan

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Canon Eos 450D + Meyer-Optik Görlitz Trioplan 2.8/100 @ f/2.8

Crop from www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/4071578900/ showing more head/eye detail

Male orange tip butterfly. First time I've seen the male.

Lycaena hippothoe

Photography

takes an instant

out of time

altering life

by holding it

still

~Dorothea Lange~

Serre aux papillons

65 images taken with Canon 50D, Nikon CFI Plan 10x/0.25 objective, and Canon 300mm f/4L IS as tube lens (15x). Taken at 3 micron steps with a Cognisys StackShot and stacked in Zerene Stacker. Lit with MT-24EX @ 1/16 with diffusion gels.