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back from Arnside Knott with my entry for this month, a scotch argus

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Cheers,

- Pete

Hi,

Changing to Brimstone taken to day.
Cheers
Sezar

Hi
This is my first listing...here is my entry for the August competition.

nice shot Ian, gets my vote this month so far

My entry for August, Purple Hairstreak from Friday wood Colchester

Rogerdoge & Gwenie told me this was better than my D O B, not to sure myself, I think they may be stitching me up.

Gruditch

You could call this one "arty". (kind of)(Green-veined white)

I decided to change mine. This image combines no less than 4 of my hobbies! Gliding, biking, photography and of course butterflying.



On the 10th I took the inset picture of a Brown Hairstreak at Hell Coppice near Oakley Wood, Bucks. Canon Powershot A80 (Handheld, no flash, automatic metering and shutter speed (-1/3 programmed in), ISO 50, 3x zoom plus +4 closeup filter - picture cropped and resized, plus light sharpening to 600x600 for my website). I had ridden to site by motorbike and spotted the BH while riding through slowly. I stopped the bike a few meters west of it and took pics with full gear including helmet on.

On the 11th I took the main picture (from the South - North is up) with the same camera (same settings, minus the closeup filter, no zoom, cropped but not resized, light sharpening) from 3000+ feet above site in a DG300 glider while passing during a cross country flight from Lasham Airfield in Hampshire. I took this, added the inset and annotation so you can see where I saw the BH and what it looked like.
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My original entry was a pair of courting Silver Spotted Skippers at Bald Hill, Aston Rowan. This can still be seen by clicking on http://piccies.flybywire.org.uk/Butterf ... ppers3.jpg.

-Mike
http://piccies.flybywire.org.uk/Butterf ... index.html

Martin.

Small white taken on 13th:

this was taken in an olive grove in corfu

charles

I believe (info Cockayne Collection) right wing is ab. caerumaculae.
Cambridgeshire 8th August

Changed my mind!

A brown hairstreak with the sunlight shining through its wings:



Canon 350D camera, 18-55mm canon lens (set on 55mm), 1/500, F5.6, ISO 400, hand-held.

Trev

Taken on the 5th Second brood Duke of Burgundy


Nikon D200, Nikkor 105mm macro 2.8 VR.
1/60th @ f20.
Spot metered and Aperture priority
ISO 100
Built in flash
Raw file

Hi Mike,

Thats a really nice good shot you've uploaded. I love the pose and the lighting through the wings. Its my favourite so far and will get my vote unless I see better!

Regards
Matt

Thanks Matt most kind of you to say so

Goodness me, there's already been some fantastic entries this month! I wish we got DoB in Suffolk but I was happy to find this beauty close to home.