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Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2007 5:55 pm**

This is the December 2007 competition. Please read the competition introduction at:

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB2/v ... .php?t=991

To enter the December competition, please post a single reply to this message (1 post per member). You'll be able to edit your entry until 5th January.

Please note the "theme" - close up and personal! Interpret as you see fit

Cheers,

- Pete

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:19 pm**

Yippee!! I've come first!

OK - if people are going for really close up, here's that famous blue spot in all its scale-by-scale glory (taken this July in the Val d'Aran)! I don't think it's a winning photo but it's quite an interesting view:

Guy

PS - the Meleager's blues didn't get any votes last time I showed them anyway

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:19 pm**

Joining a Red Admiral for lunch

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:41 pm**

Gruditch

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:15 pm**

It's the taking part that counts!
Denise

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:35 pm**

This is a moth I know (Elephant Hawk Moth Head) Feeding on a flower.

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:11 pm**

Plan View of Small P B Fritillary

Cheers

Colin

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:02 pm**

Posted: **Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:32 pm**

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:26 am**

[img]http://homepage.ntlworld.com/djfmackenz ... d-lady.jpg[/img]

Dave

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:48 pm**

Here's my entry for this month- a Marbled White under attack from a lurking crab spider.

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:16 am**

A gatekeeper close up. Macro on a budget using a Raynox lens on a Canon S3

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:20 pm**

A plain old clouded yellow, always a special butterfly, photographed this summer (the rules say in the month of the competition, but I guess that's relaxed in December).

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:34 pm**

I don't think the pictures even have to be taken this year, Roger. See the October page (http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB2/v ... php?t=1708) for the rules on these themed competitions.

Having said that, clouded yellows are December butterflies round my parts...

Guy

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2007 9:20 pm**

Here's the best I can do this month..... Heath Frit.

Posted: **Fri Dec 07, 2007 2:38 pm**

here is a pasha i met in corfu

charles

Posted: **Sun Dec 09, 2007 9:04 pm**

http://piccies.flybywire.org.uk/Butterf ... ingys3.jpg

Picture taken 28th April 2007 at Ivinghoe Beacon in the Chilterns / Buckinghamshire.
Camera: Canon Powershot A80.[/img]

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:36 pm**

WoW, some very good pics in this month`s competition so i wont win as usual, a single vote would be a victory fo me.
A Bee Fly from the summer

Posted: **Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:12 pm**

Chalkhill Blue Devils Dyke 28th July 2007

Posted: **Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:36 pm**

Clouded Apollo - trying to hide...

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December 2007 Entries - Close up and personal

December 2007 Entries - Close up and personal

Small P B Fritillary

painted lady

december comp entry #1

Mating Dingy Skippers

Excuse the dirty finger-nail!