Hurrah!!

Good choice

Hi I also have the 300D and I saved up and got the 100mm USM Canon Macro. Very nice lens, I can fill the frame with a butterfly from over a foot away. (retails at close to £400, I got mine on Ebay for £319 new) For more depth of field you can get the 60mm EF-S Macro, designed for our camera it gives...

I know I can't compete with you all, but here is my effort.

Nonsense! Its a good shot, nice unobtrusive background too, it makes all the difference

Her leftmost leg looks like an arm

Nice mate

it's underside looks very different to the English variety!

Went to Arnside Knott for a couple of days last weekend, finally sorted out my photos, so here is a few. The Buddleia was just outside the Knott and was attracting the Fritillaries nicely :D Finally got a shot of a Red Admiral (there isn't many where I live): http://www.wayno.myby.co.uk/album/Butter...

Oy you are beginning to embarrace us all with your photos!
I like the first photo the best, looks like a female?

Well done mate

Hmm a tricky question, and one that my friend pondered over for a while before making his decision. Three Choices: 1. A top end compact 2. A bridge SLR type camera 3. An SLR As for the compact, some of the Canon Powershots produce fantastic results, and some of them have "Apeture Priority"...

I'm very happy with my 1DmarkII N thanks

Oho!!! Nice, fastest digital camera in the world isnt it?

She's a she in my opinion, the male's body is all blue fur, whereas hers has a lot of brown fur. The bits of the inside wing that you can see look brown. The Orange spots are rather large, another sign of female. The Females are usually smaller in the Common Blues, quite noticably smaller in my expe...

I will be going a week on Saturday, should be OK for Scotch Argus but will it be too late for NB argus? Yeh :-( They fly mainly in June, I spotted a couple at Bishop Middleham Quarry at the end of june but they were rather worn. Here's a pic, next year I'll go back earlier and on a brighter day! : ...

It looks like the Garden Tiger Moth caterpillar!
My favourite moth

Check this: http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=2229

Sell the car and buy a Canon 1Ds

Oh Jesus!!

Thats amazing, surely it cant be true??

They look like Large White lava?

I was there on the 28th and 29th. I saw: 100+ Scotch Argus (including mating pair) 40+ Grayling 20+ DG Frits (worn) Approx 10 HB Frits (good condition) Approx 10 Speckled Wood Approx 5 Common Blue (brand new) Lots of Meadow Brown Lots of Painted Lady, Peacock and red Admiral 1 Comma 1 Mating pair of...

Someone gave me advice to get them to open their wings, shade them from the sun, they either fly away or open their wings after a few moments. However this seems to do the opposite with the blues, I discovered firing my flash a few times convinced one to open its wings up this weekend. (weather was ...

Ahh yes you are correct!

They were both really tiny, but then the female Common Blues are small.
The male must have came from an under-fed caterpillar

Shame that is was really windy and overcast, they were really nice specimens.

Wow I did not realise that a macro flash would allow you to stop down the aperture that much.

I shall have to invest in a macro flash unit I think

Oh and brilliant photos, perhaps a little bit underexposed, but no doubt its intended

Excellent photos once again Oy

Especially the last one!

As for the competition, I'll be submitting soon, I dont want to submit then get a better photo, but I have a couple put aside ready to send

Still a great photo though

There was lots feeding on Buddleia when I was at Arnside.

Here's one :


Still not the "perfect shot" though