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Michael456 wrote in post #18654516
Butterfly have been pretty much eluding me so far this year. Haven't seen many and those I've seen didn't want to hold still for me to take a shot.
I got lucky this weekend when I found a large patch of flowers with lots of butterflies all over them. It was very hard to avoid blowing out the white petals, though, so I had to ditch a lot of shots

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Great work on these two, just like all the others you've posted. They really are nice.

I went back to the flower patch today after work, wanting to shoot some butterflies again. There were none around, though (probably too late in the day, I guess?) so I shot damsels instead:

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Michael456 wrote in post #18655730

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Both of those shot are absolutely wonderful. I don't think there is any more room for improvement. You my have to move on to something more challenging, such as climbing Mount Everest.

Just kidding of course.

Lame-Duck wrote in post #18655867
Both of those shot are absolutely wonderful. I don't think there is any more room for improvement. You my have to move on to something more challenging, such as climbing Mount Everest.

Just kidding of course.

That would be some epic landscape photos!

Cormac wrote in post #18655885
That would be some epic landscape photos!

For sure it would, but he'd have to make it back alive.

true. I'd love to go, but I'm 100% sure I'd be dead on the mountain

Lame-Duck wrote in post #18655867
Both of those shot are absolutely wonderful. I don't think there is any more room for improvement. You my have to move on to something more challenging, such as climbing Mount Everest.

Just kidding of course.

LOL, thanks a lot!
These shots were born out of frustration, actually. When I saw zero butterflies at the flower patch I was about to head straight home again. Then I decided to walk around the nearby pond looking for dragonflies and my frustration level rose even higher when again, I saw none. Then I saw the damsels and thought "OK OK, I'll get the camera out of the bag and take a couple of shots of those"

Cormac wrote in post #18655959
true. I'd love to go, but I'm 100% sure I'd be dead on the mountain

That's why I refuse to go!

Lame-Duck wrote in post #18656049
That's why I refuse to go!

Same here, but maybe we could ask someone to bring back our SD cards and post the photos here

I wouldn't say I refuse to go. Luckily i can't afford it either! My luck if I did go and survive my camera would get broken somehow. Or the sd card would have an error.

Michael456 wrote in post #18656064
Same here, but maybe we could ask someone to bring back our SD cards and post the photos here

I'm with ya on that.

lijoec wrote in post #18656377

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/KaB9​XZ IMG_6596 by Joseph Colozzo, on Flickr

Thank you Joe, and same to you and yours!!

Haven't seen this type of butterfly around here before.. it's a Zebra Swallowtail.