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Trev Sawyer wrote: I know it breaks the rules about the insect having to look into the photo rather than out of it, but I prefer this.

Trev

Rules need breaking occasionally.

At a tangent, I was reading in a magazine today about photography that you should always put the subject on the right hand side of the photograph as people scan from left to right when they look at a picture. I wonder if that is true for everyone; I shouldn't think so.

Susie wrote:people scan from left to right when they look at a picture

Not if you usually read Arabic!

Mike

That's one hell of a photo, RobS![/quote]

thanks susie.the purples have been a lot kinder to me than the browns.

cheers
rob

oops,...maybe someone would be kind enough to pm me and tell me how to "quote" properly.
thanks ,
rob

Hi Rob,

When you use any tag, such as "Foo", you need to ensure that the start and end are symmetrical, as in "[Foo] xxx [/Foo]".

And when you quote someone, you need to also include an attribute that is their name. For example, (I've replaced "quote" by "quote2" otherwise it will get interpreted!): "[quote2="Susie"]That's one hell of a photo, RobS![/quote2]".

Here's the result when "quote" is used correctly:

Susie wrote:That's one hell of a photo, RobS!

To get that result, just hit the "quote" button, and rip out the pieces you don't want.

Cheers,

- Pete

It's not an exceptional photo but I like the way the light gleams off this pristine male Silver-Washed Fritillary.
(taken at Botany Bay on July 2nd)

Thanks Pete,and thanks Susie, for the pm.

RobS (returning to corner of room and replacing dunces hat on head)

Of all my photos this year, I keep being drawn to this one. Purely on an artistc level not species descriptive. Eric

One of my favourite photos of the year is this one.
It shows (l to R) Paul, Me and NickB relaxing between butterfly sites during our excellent trip to the South of France in April.
Good times, good friends...................

more great photos,

Roger, i understand the sentiments. as much as i enjoy going to my deserted wood to be alone with the butterflies, meeting members at Denbies and Portland (and the workshop of course) has been a great addition to my year this year (with hopefully more to add fromthe events diary next year). who knows who a similar picture to that will be of in years to come because of this forum. by the way that sun and the beer look mighty tempting right now.

ChrisC wrote: by the way that sun and the beer look mighty tempting right now.

They sure do, and it's still 30 degrees down there right now!

Life's not fair.

Great idea for a thread and some smashing photos.

This being my first proper season of attempting to photograph butterflies, I have so many favourites that it is hard to choose just one.

The Purple Hairstreak below is one that I keep coming back to as I think it shows some character and makes me feel like the butterfly was looking at me as much as I was looking at it
Cheers,

Neil F.

Neil and everyone else you can add as many as you like. I know i had trouble narrowing it down to just one so here's Another of mine (though cropped for detail here) is this gatekeeper. pretty much for the same reason as the skipper. the texture and the hairs and contours i think make it look alive. it's more than just colours (Like so many of my photos ) i'm yet to take peacock and red admiral that i'm happy with and trust me i have a load of both best viewed enlarged.

To be honest, I am not great at butterfly photos and didn't see a lot of butterflies to photograph this year, however I have this one, a common one, small white I found on this flower in a field along with hundreds of others and large/green-veined whites:

These are a couple of my favourites. The one of the Orange Tip on Honesty was taken in a fairly strong wind. I managed to catch it in a lull but I like the way the butterfly can be seen to be gripping the petal.
In the case of the Red Admiral it's the perfect condition and brilliant colours that does it for me.

post moved to Species: Brimstone

Yes, it means, "up yours, matey, now sling your hook".

MikeOxon wrote:My favourite this year was this pair of Brimstones

Very unusual photo Mike, I've never seen anything like it!

Cheers
John

I've been watching this thread with interest and there have been some superb photos and some good memories on these pages. I love the sun and beer shot and wish I was sitting there right now.
Heres some Helen took in Switzerland this year. There were so many excellent photos but I chose these for different reasons.

The first two I have chosen for composition and artistic effect. Well I just liked them.

This Darwins Heath is not perfect but an attractive composition.
I love the wavy purple and green background on this shot of an Idas Blue.
This Apollo was great with foot passenger climbing around her wings. This shot just reminds me of an excellent holiday and meeting up with a great bloke, Mr. Guy "not so Mountain Goat at the moment" Padfield.
And this final shot was possibly one of the most awe inspiring moments of the holiday watching three plus Cynthia's Fritillaries hill topping and sparring in such amazing scenery high up in the Alps.
Not the best shot but the butterfly lounging in the buttercups what a great memory.

Thanks Guy. Get well soon.

Awesome thread having so sweet pics of the butterflies,.
i really love the butterflies and the white and purple butterflies looks so nice and cute,.