Speckled wood butterfly on miniature hebe.

This will be a vibrant purple in a few days. Had 3/4" of rain yesterday (very unusual) and now bright and sunny today.

Small tortoiseshell butterfly closeup

Saw at a hillside of Hong Kong

Si era innamorata dell'Ary

Super-macro: 18-55 invertito

Lunghezza focale: 18

Distanza dal soggetto: ~ 1cm

I found this and many more on a single shrub, all in different sizes of growth and only in blue and orange. The garden was inside a CRPF camp and had to prescribe medicines to the one on guard to get in. Couldn't get a better shot with the wings expanded. As I was trying harder, the guard getting more impatient, so I had to return without what I was willing to shoot.

Hope you all like this. Have a nice day .

Serre aux papillons

View on Black

Curetis santana malayica (Malayan Sunbeam)

Macro Butterfly...

Painted lady butterfly on the garden path. Natural light

This is one of my favorite of the day. It was delicate and beautiful and it let me hold it on my hand for a while.

Brimstone butterfly in the garden. Natural light

macro, butterfly

My favorite butterfly other than those huge blue ones..whatever they're called. Aha :)

The backlighting on this Tiger Swallowtail shows that he has had a bit of a rough Summer with numerious rips, dents and scratches showing on his wings. This photo taken in my back yard Aug 2011.

Butterfly Pupa

This is why I love the X-10. 3 seconds before I captured this image the camera was off with the lens cap on!

Butterfly.. up close

A beautiful peacock butterfly. Taken at Highdown gardens Worthing. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/20299826382/ for a 3D version

Speckled wood butterfly on a sunchair. Using flash in manual to try to capture them before they startled

Hiding in the grass, not the best place when you look like a leaf! Moor Farm nature reserve, Lincolnshire, UK.

Vanessa atalanta

Seen on my balcony.

What will it become?

絹蛺蝶

學名：Calinaga buddha formosana Fruhstorfer, 1908

其他俗名：黃頸蛺蝶、黃領蛺蝶、桑蛺蝶、首環蝶、頸輪蝶、黃頭仔

small butterfly in the night dews

Sulla cima delle cascate a s'ega sitzoris si trovano tantissime farfalle come questa, al sicuro, lontano dall'uomo e dall'inquinamento.

The macro focus worked very well here because of the whiteness/brightness of the butterfly wings. That allowed the camera software to compute the focal distance accurately.