Speckled wood butterfly closeup. Taken at 3:1 focus stacked uncropped.

Esta fartou-se de gozar comigo! Depois de me fazer correr de um lado para outro, rodopiou á minha volta e pousou nas minhas calças!... Com um bocado de contorcionismo lá consegui a foto (pena não ser com as asas abertas para podermos ver aqueles magníficos reflexos azul cobalto...) - este Verão, Brito - Guimarães.

Primer plano de esta mariposa

Meadow brown butterfly. taken at Parham house gardens Sussex

Butterfly macro

Common blue butterfly in the garden. Natural light

Graphium evemon eventus (Blue Jay) & Graphium sarpedon luctatius (Common Bluebottle)

This is my first butterfly I shot with my macro lens. Hope to find many more

Butterfly, Bristol Zoo

This was taken in the Butterfly Garden at Seaforde a great selection of butterflies but wear a bikini 30 degrees and the first thing that happens when you step in is a steamed up lens

Gatekeeper butterfly

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At last, butterflies in the garden

RHS Wisley

I think this is a Gold Rim Swallowtail, It is some sort of Swallowtail from the North Somerset Butterfly house. Its a close crop as the detail of the butterfly is beautiful.

The butterflies are in a large tropical greenhouse which is very hot and humid. I missed the wind and changing sunlight when photographing native butterflies outside.

The Swallow tails are lovely I might have to go to the Norfolk Broads next summer to find our native Swallowtail.

Go large for the fine black/ white detail.

From my archives

Spotted this butterfly hanging upside down from a book shelf in our dining room - Must have come in through the French windows

Saw at a park of Taiwan

The long tongue allows the butterfly to get down deep into the flower for the sweetest pollen.

Macro taken inside the butterfly enclosure, Royal Melbourne Zoo, Parkville, Victoria.

Canon 400D - 100mm macro lens.

Trying to shoot macro without actually owning a macro lens is a bit of a nightmare...

Blue arrow track. ID?

Comma butterfly Highdown gardens Worthing- feeding on a highly scented shrub

Clear-wing Butterfly. Stratford Butterfly Farm 16/12/2006