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Beryl, my mother-in-law, had the hip replacement operation last Friday. She is recovering well and came home today. We hope she'll be back to the normal life very soon.
This Red Amiral butterfly photo was taken in my parent-in-law's garden. The Buddleia'd attracted the Peacock,Cabbage White, Small Tortoiseshell and Red Admiral butterfly species.
Another Monarch, you can tell by the wing markings, but in the same flower garden after church today. Appears to be another male.
Garden photography.
Painted Lady Butterfly sitting on a leaf on the olive tree in my garden.
I think this one is the best from the series because it has an interesting angle, has the sharpness exactly right and a nice soft colored background.
I'm just not sure about the colors, I guess I really need color calibration because it doesn't look alright on all screens that I'm using.
This female cabbage white visited the garden yesterday and proceeded to lay eggs in a trough of Rocket salad plants.
Heliconius erato. The "sunrise" name comes from the red stripes on the forewing, suggestive of the rays of a rising sun.
This is an animated GIF made up from uncropped shots of a butterfly sitting on a sun chair. Taken with my 100mm macro lens just to illustrate the technique of slowly moving in on skittery subjects taking pics as you go, so if it does get spooked you at least have some shots.
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Had an invasion of painted lady butterflies yesterday morning - about 20 of them in the front garden. I gather these are French holidaymakers