My first butterfly pics of the year

eccles · Post by **eccles** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:17 pm

Comma taken from about 10 feet away with Canon S3 + DC58B tc.

eccles · Post by **eccles** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:20 pm

... and brimstone, resting while cloud covered the sun. The sun came out, I got the shot, it vibrated its wings for a minute to warm the muscles up and it was off, trawling its patch for females.
Canon S3 + 500D

it344x · Post by **it344x** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:12 pm

Nice shots Eccles , I especially like the brimstone.

regards
Martin
( http://www.mgnastro.org )

Gwenhwyfar · Post by **Gwenhwyfar** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:17 pm

Great pics, the Brimstone is my favourite also.

Dave McCormick · Post by **Dave McCormick** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:09 am

Hello all. Great place for U.K butterfly information! Oh and here is mine. This small tortoiseshell hibernated through the winter in my house:

eccles · Post by **eccles** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:15 pm

Thanks for comments Gwen & Martin.
@Dave, ST numbers have dropped recently in England so nice to see that one has survived.

yellowhammer · Post by **yellowhammer** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:24 pm

Hi everyone, this is my first post here. Great photography from everyone here, here's my first effort of the year;

Taken last week at Northward Hill in Kent, Fuji S5600.

I look forward to getting to know you all & pestering you with questions!

Cheers,
Ian

Gwenhwyfar · Post by **Gwenhwyfar** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 6:54 pm

Hi Yellowhammer welcome to the forum - and a very nice sunny comma you have their.

eccles · Post by **eccles** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:12 pm

The Fuji S5600 is a surprisingly good camera considering its cost, and that's a very nice pic. Hope to see more soon.

Lance · Post by **Lance** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:55 pm

Hi yellowhammer and a very nice picture.

Wayne · Post by **Wayne** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 12:25 pm

Excellent photos!
Still haven't had an opportunity to get any photos this year, actually I've only seen one butterfly up to now!

Love the Brimstone pic, I really wanted to get a photo of one this year, but I'm off to Korea next week for 3 weeks so proberbly wont have the chance

I was also impressed with the Fuji S series, friend of mine got one and I was rather shocked to see him easily producing photos as good as me (with my Canon 300D, 100mm Canon Macro lens).

Looking forward to this summer, looks promising already.....