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Challenge: Butterflies in the wild or in an ecological teaching center

Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I saw a Nova film on the journeys of the monarch butterfly. It takes 4 generations but it goes in stages from Canada southwards to the USA to Mexico each year! The Mexican town depends economically on their arrival by the millions each october after thousands of miles travel from the USA! The butterflies stay, clothing trees in magnificent color for 5 months! Then they return northward to the USA to mate and multiply for their offspring to continue this amazing cycle.

Butterflies are beautiful delicate creatures that have amazing colors and life styles. Show us you best and when you do, add a word on the where and how of the shot!

This is for any butterfly, just chose your very best.

Asher

This is a dynamic thread, a window on our best photography as are all theme topics. As such, and as time goes on, some pictures will end up in other appropriate threads, a fresh comment will be posted about that picture, for further discussion and you will be notified.
 
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Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins: Great Spangled Fritillary on thistle, June 2007.​


Lost Mound Nature Preserve, Canon 1DMKII and 600mm f/4.

Tom
 
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James Newman

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This was taken at the butterfly pavillion in the Houston Museum of Natural History. It's a great place with butterflies all year round. This one was resting on a vine with a waterfall making a nice background.
James Newman

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James Newman: At the Butterfly Pavilion​
 
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james sperry

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this is a moth, sorry. i don't have any butterflys in my collection so this is as close as i can get :) . got this when i was living in montana. it showed up one day and stayed on my porch for 3 days.


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james sperry

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Rachel Foster said:
Macro lens?
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actually, i can't remember what i shot this with. it was either a sigma 10-20mm or a canon 18-55mm lense, no converters. i currently do not own a macro lense or any equipment to shoot macro.
if it looks like a macro shot, i guess i did something right .... lol ..... thanks!! ;)

it's actually a BIG moth. i think the span on the wings was around 4" - 5".
 
fahim mohammed

fahim mohammed

Well-known member
James, beautifully and delicately rendered. I have been following your visit to the Texan museums
with a sense of the ' where are these places '. spent 2 months in Texas and never got to see them.

Hope all goes well with you?

Best.

James Newman said:
This was taken at the butterfly pavillion in the Houston Museum of Natural History. It's a great place with butterflies all year round. This one was resting on a vine with a waterfall making a nice background.
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James Newman: At The Butterfly Pavilion​
 
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James Newman

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Thank you Fahim. When you were in Texas did you make it through Houston? I think with it being the 4th largest city in the US it just makes sense, to me anyway, that it has a lot of museums, and yes, some of them are strange and different and maybe a little off the beaten path. My wife and I bought memberships to the Museum of Natural History where this butterfly pavilion is when we first moved here. It is a wonderful museum with many great exhibitions, both permanent and also traveling ones, and gives us a good place to visit when looking for a nice day out of the house. I am planning another trip here in the not too distant future.
All is well as can be expected. Thank you for asking. I am still busy as a beaver looking for my next job. I am staying positive that something good will come along when it is time.
James Newman
 
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Tom Robbins

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This little guy was photographed while he was perched at an edge of no return -

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Tom Robbins: Eastern Tailed-blue on goldenrod in Aast Iowa 2007
Canon 1DMKII and 600mm f/4​
 
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Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Tom,

Thanks for sharing this delicate butterfly. The fringe of its wing are unusual. I guess they they increase the leverage in warmer air perhaps? Or could this make the flying quieter; stealth mode, perhaps? The underside of the wings are so different from the dorsum. I wonder why each of these particulars helps this creature flourish.

What's amazing is that, for all this delicate beauty, really, they are very little different in fundamental design from an elephant. It's just the emphasis on each control switch and a little fussiness here and there!

Magic!

Thanks for sharing,

Asher
 
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Walt Conley

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Unwanted dinner companion

While taking a butterfly picture at the Montreal Botanical Gardens, this bee zoned in on the same flower. The butterfly basically bullied the bee off the dinner plate after it landed.


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Walt Conley: Unwanted dinner companion​
 
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Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

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Walt, This is an amazingly hostile activity. I wonder if the bees sting the butterflies or there's nothing ennough of an existential threat! Asher


Tom, that guy so so beautifully colored. I understand that some insects use uv fluorecent lines and marking to guide the pollinators at night. But I'm not sure. These colors are so beautiful and probably has a surival benefit. At first I thought thisd was a picture of a butterfly on the ventral side (tummy) of a voracious caterpillar that will soon eat it. But then those feet seem to be flowers.

Asher
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Tom Robbins said:
This little guy was photographed while he was perched at an edge of no return -

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Tom Robbins: Eastern Tailed-blue on goldenrod in Aast Iowa 2007
Canon 1DMKII and 600mm f/4​
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Tom,

This is a pure delight. It seems like it was lit by a group of magic elves.

Asher
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Michael Nagel said:
Butterflies - they are lovely, but I rarely manage to take a photo I want to keep.

This is one of the very few:
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Michael,

I missed this one entirely until today! I'm so glad to have discovered it.

Well, most of us have only rare pics we'd want to keep too, but this one is especially rewarding to have succeeded in capturing. It's really an unusually tender fawn color and so delicately set on in flower.

Asher

Do you happen to be able to name this?
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Duke Beattie said:
somehow i also missed this thread.. along the lines of one bfly picture. this is probably the one that i like..
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Fabulous get up, this fellow has! The whiskers and that bog eye patch! Incredible and a beauty!

Is that really an eye or just a great marking?

Asher
 
Chris Calohan

Chris Calohan

Well-known member
This is hand-held, 100mm Tokina Macro, F: 5.6 @ 1/1600, ISO 640, natural light in the Butterfly Garden at the Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, FL (UF Campus). No flash or tripods allowed in the facility.
 
Chris Calohan

Chris Calohan

Well-known member
Asian Cruiser and Gulf Fritillary

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F:8 @ 1/250 ISO 400 D7000 w/ Nikkor 55-300 handheld at 280mm, natural light (indoors).

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F:16 @ 1/125 Nikkor 18-105, ISO 800 Handheld, Natural Light (indoors)
 
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