A Summer Memory Please View Large

Comments appreciated...-9F this am, this was taken on a slightly

warmer day. :0)

This photo is absolutely beautiful!

The color on this picture is stunning! For an outdoor shot in natural light this is amazing!

Sorry I didn?t give a higher mark for originality, but I saw way too many butterflies on flowers.

 

Thanks for making me remember the summer :-) and i am looking forward to the next. This is realy a beautiful photo with great colours and light. I almost smell the flowers. Regards LKV.

Beautiful shot reminding us of summer, but please remember that 40% of worlds butterflies have dissappeared since 1980, they may not be around for us to photograph in the future,so shots like this are important.

Nice composition, colors, DOF. I just love this little guy/girl!

 

 

Thanks all. This butterfly is the size of a dime and is one of my all time favorites. He is on a wildflower that looks much like a daisy. I have a very good close up of him in my portfolio, never submitted for critique but it is my favorite shot.

 

Birte, I hear you and share your concern, every year new species are added to the endangered lists, in all categories of wildlife.

I think that originality is the way we shoot and process photos. Lighting, composition and technical perfection made it for me very special and original.

Beautiful colors, so lovely tone & great DOF. Best regards.

Mary Fran, excellent macro work......Jim

Thank you Samir, Thinh and Jim, very much appreciated!

Mary Fran, FYI, This an American Copper,(Lycoena Phlaeas) and one of my nemesis BFs. I only have one shot in my files. I believe I posted it a while back and it is not nearly as good as yours! Regards, B.

Thanks Bill, I knew the name over the summer and misplaced it. I had two opportunities to shoot this one this summer, my all time favorite even including what I saw at a butterfly conservatory. See this for a close up--

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5107315 Cute as a button. :)

Mary Fran, Another beautiful photo ! You know how to represent the nature on photos ! The colors are always like we see it in the nature, not to much saturation, not to much contrast and sharpening.... just enough to re present thing as they are. I think the butterfly photos should not be too much cropped. I like too see the butterfly in his natural habitat.

 

Good work ! Continue tu make butterfly photos. Like Birte said, they will not be with us forever... in the near futur, only few oportunist species will left...

 

This is the american subspecies of Lycaena phlaeas (that occur in Europe) : Lycaena phlaeas americana. The caterpillar eat Rumex sp.

Thank you Jonathan. I have a few more of this one to work on. I'll share a little conservation I do at home--we leave at least half an acre of field unmowed and whatever plants choose to come up we let them. I discovered many wild flowers and insects there this year. My poor husband almost had his head bit off for weed wacking some milkweed! Poor man had no idea what hit him when I walked in on him yelling and waving my arms. I was leaving it for the monarchs. He knows better now. LOL's