Anthene lycaenina miya (Pointed Ciliate Blue)

Pareronia valeria

Had a nice red admiral butterfly visitor in the garden yesterday. Relaxing on a variagated holly leaf

Butterflies feeding on sap seepage on a tree trunk possibly damaged by the operations of hornets

each pigment cell clearly visible

Butterfly in Penang butterfly park

Little butterfly warming up in the early morning sun.

Graphium sarpedon luctatius (Common Bluebottle)

Model:Canon EOS 500D

Shutter Speed:1/200 second

Aperture:F/8.0

Focal Length:100 mm

ISO Speed:100

Sony a350 - Sigma 105mm Macro lens

Photoshop CS3 and Lightroom 2 Beta.

Wayne County, WV

Brimstone butterfly

Photographed at the L.A. County Natural History Museum, Pavilion of Wings living butterfly exhibit.

Click on photo to view large on black. Press F11 to further enlarge.

Nikon D5000 at ISO 200, Nikkor 105-mm macro lens, 1/60-sec at f/22, SB-600 flash unit with 3/4-ringlight attachment.

We chased it forever, and finally got a shot. I love how you can see the expression on his/her face.

Macro Butterfly

Found in Lassen Volcanic National Park. 9/09

I was trying to get photos of Alfie chasing butterflies... After several attempts I realised it was just not gonna happen... :(

So I did a couple of macro shots by inverting my 50mm again... I also remembered after I uploaded these that PS5 has a new nifty noise reduction area on the details tab of camera raw that I should have used... Never mind eh?...

Hope y'all had a good weekend... :D

Just something I shot while out in the garden!

Red admiral butterfly continued. I did disturb the butterfly doing some high mag shots but it flew off and landed on a passionflower plant nearby. It was behaving so calmly that I decided to stick my finger under it's nose and it then stepped on.

See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/20754190453/ for a 3D version

Papilio demoleus malayanus (Lime Butterfly, 达摩凤蝶)

Camera Canon EOS 7D

Lens canon 100mm f2.8 macro

Focal Length 100mm

Shutter Speed 1/125 sec

Aperture f/13

ISO/Film 200

On the Budlea in my garden. 2006

Another shot from Wednesday's trip to the Cleveland Botanical Garden; check beck because I am going to identify all these butterflies as soon as I get a field guide.

Closeup of an unspecified orange swallowtail butterfly!

100mm f/2.8 Macro + Macro Ring Light (MR-14EX) set on -2 to balance the light

Belém - Pará

鳳蝶科 Papilionidae

臺灣麝香鳳蝶 (長尾麝鳳蝶) Byasa impediens febanus