Captured for Macro Mondays theme: tea.

The remains of a hortensia flower, a little bit of one of the flowers is still holding on.

Happy looking close....on Friday!

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Macro Mondays theme Sharp. this is the tip of a Samurai Sword.

bushveld purple tip/colotis ion

Sorry, can't show the purple tip, its on the inside, although with butterflies its called the upper side.

Update: iNaturalist's ID seems to be: diverse white/appias epaphia contracta www.inaturalist.org/observations/10243925

Green Bees don't care about the petal tips, they don't have pollen or nectar on offer

Auroraperhonen; Orange Tip; Anthocharis cardamines

France; Brenne, Lignac 5/4/20

On an errand today I had the feeling it might be worth taking the camera. Just as I was about to head back I saw this little beauty resting up on some brambles.

Despite the blown out areas I do like taking shots of these backlit as the orange just glows.

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France; Brenne, Cherine 5/5/17.

another fern shot for those who love ferns and the color green.

I like it on black, you be the judge.

View On Black

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Anthocharis cardamines.

A nectaring male Orange Tip

Gorgeous display of Burnt-tip Orchids this year. Science name: Neotinea ustulata. Martin Down National Nature Reserve. Hampshire, England

Low flying egret occasionally tipping the surface of the water.

An old picture. I really liked the contrast between the shapes of the tips and the shadows on the background. Hope you'll like it!

Orange-tip : Anthocharis cardamines

Brand-Knabenkraut - Neotinea ustulate

Growing in midst a yellow carpet of spurge (Euphorbia, Wolfsmilch)

Thanks to Buzz www.flickr.com/photos/orangebuzz2000 for letting me take this photo in his Moth Garden.

Anthocharis cardamines,

This male Orange Tip was busy flying around when he decided to settle, this was my chance to grab a few shots before he took to the wing again.

I don't often get the chance to photograph these butterflies. They are constantly on the move and hardly ever land.

I was very lucky with this one.....except I didn't have my macro lens with me !

At the end of a long day this Hooded Merganser enjoys tipping one back.

Rusty-tipped page (Siproeta epaphus) or brown siproeta, is a New World butterfly that lives all year in tropical habitats. Seen at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's Butterfly Jungle

For "Looking close... on Friday!" ; theme : "tip".

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One from last year, keep seeing them go through garden but they do not stop. Will we get out in time to photograph these this year I wonder. Taken late evening with the low sun back lighting the butterfly and a little fill flash on front of subject. Kingcombe Meadows, Dorset.

At home

'Hebomoia glaucippe' The 'Great orange-tip' butterfly in a heated butterfly house.

What I liked on this shot was the bottom tip there was just a dot of light out of a ridge that caught light just above the tip.

Always a sign of Spring when the Orange Tip Butterflies appear.

Another shot of the Orange Tip on Cuckoo Flower that visited my garden today.

Lyme Regis Dorset

A female Orange-tip at roost as the sun goes down in the background.

Male Orange Tip resting on Bluebell, Backlit with one flash used to light butterfly. Kingcombe Meadows, Dorset.