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This is the May 2008 competition. Please read the competition introduction at:

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

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

Please refrain from making comments about the entries until the competition has been voted on. Comments and constructive critique are very welcome thereafter.

Look forward to seeing the entries roll in , good luck !

I guess someone has to provide the first entry

Changed the Orange-tip for a Common Blue seen yesterday at Hartslock in Berkshire.
Cheers,

Small Blue taken on May 29th.



Denise

The Duke from today



Martin.

Edit: I had to change my entry for this green hairstreak. Denise and I spent a gloriously sunny day today (6th May) searching three sites for three species of which this was one. No luck on the other two but it was still a good day.
Stuff used was Sony A700 with 70-210 F4 "beercan" with attached Canon 500D close up lens. 1/160 f8 iso200

Found these dodging the dog**** on the Devils Dyke at Newmarket Racecourse!
Nikon D300 Tamron 90mm ISO 250 f11 @1/160, Monopod, Cropped in Photoshop.

Not only my first entry this year, but also my first butterfly photograph this year!
I may well replace it by the end of the month, but at least my toe is on the water!






Canon EOS 30D, Sigma 180 Macro, Tripod, 1/320, f8, ISO 400, just a small crop/rotate in Photoshop elements
Roger Harding

a Duke doing the hokey-cokey

Totternhoe



charles

Small heath in my garden on 10th May:



Guy

Glanville Fritillary taken whilst roosting in a brisk breeze. Canon EOS 10D and Sigma 150 mm macro plus monopod.

Got fed up with the Orange-tip I'd posted, so changed it for this PBF


150mm 1/160s @ f/4.0, with flash on tripod

Kind Regards,

Chris

OK. I've settled on this image as my final effort... A slightly better shot of Wood White courtship behaviour posted previously:
A male Wood White introducing himself to a female... I'd never seen the tongue-lashing courtship of this species before and managed to get a shot of it actually happening (and during the split second the male flicked his wings open ). Maybe not the sharpest photo in the box, but I was very pleased with the action shot.



Trev.

My Holly Blue swapped with mating pair GV Whites:

Green Hairstreak on Saturday

This is my best effort so far. Green Hairstreak pair 5th May Swaledale...

actually.. changed it later.. same pair!

A late change for me. On 31st May I finally saw the Marsh Fritillary at Seven Barrows in West Berkshire. Was lucky enough to get a shot of a pair courting too. All despite 8/8 thin altostratus too. The low light levels and that they were moving around and flapping a lot made this image even luckier.

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-Mike

My first entry in the monthly comps - first time shooting in raw too! 6th May near Wrexham, if the male is the small one I think he's punching above his weight a bit!

Gruditch

In a word "Peacock" Canon 450d , Sigma 105mm.

Changed back!