petebfrance

Blue Butterfly on Daisy

many thanks for comments
uzi9mm
thank-you. The my book shows the Holly Blue underwing, not very helpful in this case as my shots of the underwings were totally out of focus and the butterfly did not stay around long. Still, it was accommodating of it to land on a complementary (or close to?) coloured flower.

By: petebfrance

Red Admiral Sunbathing on a Hydrangea

Thank-you for comments
Elaine - he (I think it's a he) can be found there quite often - other favourite perch appears to be a garden table.

Annette - I have to admit I was particularly pleased with the green 'shapes' in the background. They probably 'rescued' it, really

By: petebfrance

Butterfly - Blue Family

Thank-you for comments.
Annettep38 many thanks for the link. Really great and far more comprehensive than my book. I suspect that there are species there which don't have an 'English' name (or have possibly been lumped together under one name?) Anyway, I'll upload a few more shots of this one for completeness.
It's true that the photos aren't impressive, I'm just pleased to have them at all

By: petebfrance

Lulworth Skipper

Thank-you for comments - I've now changed the description as I think it's a male and the colours are OK(ish)!

By: petebfrance

Audierne Beach - BW

Hi
thanks for comments.
Ian, that's an interesting (and good) idea. I'll have a look at it tomorrow. My first thought was that it's not at all the effect I was after, but on second thoughts .... thanks!

By: petebfrance

White Butterfly

Thanks for comments.
Ade - thanks. It's on page 35 of my book so I can read all about it. Sombody's brassicas must have been in for a bit of a bashing

By: petebfrance

Common Swallowtail - Rear View

They do turn up now and again here. This one was special as it stayed around for a while and didn't mind being photographed (from quite a few angles) - I do have a number of photographs of it, so loaded the two to show the colours front and back.

By: petebfrance

Painted Lady - after a long voyage 2

Norfolkboy
many thanks. I haven't seen any for a while either, but I'm hoping that if the weather clears some of these missing butterflies may make a late come-back.
regards
Pete

PS many years ago I lived in Norfolk - Necton and then Gressenhall. It's a lovely county.

By: petebfrance

Audierne Beach - a previous summer

onetreehill
many thanks. I know what exactly you mean about processing! I'm really rather pleased with how the lump of plastic and electronics is capable of reproducing what I see and how exciting I find it, but I think I'm just not getting it across to other people!
I don't really know what's going on with the girl, but I suspect that the poor thing is wearing some kind of device to correct something or other - otherwise I can't imagine why she would have anything like that on her leg.

regards
Pete

By: petebfrance

Gull

Really striking - I love the light in this.

By: flakeyflower

Butterfly - I don't know what sort

Graham, Annette
many thanks. The picture in my book is much darker, which rather confused me. Nice little thing - it first appeared on a privet hedge and then took a bit of interest in a cherry tree.

regards
Pete

By: petebfrance

Large Red Damsel Fly

Thank-you for comments.
I don't really know how common the red ones are - but I must admit it was easier to photograph than the blue as it was not as lively and big enough for the autofocus to work reliably.

By: petebfrance

Painted Lady - after a long voyage

annettep38
thank-you. I'll see if I can find a few more of them. Most were a bit disappointing, though. It was only when I found this one and a few others in a part of the garden that had a good mix of light and shade that I got anything that really did them justice. Too many chuck-aways

By: petebfrance

Sea Pinks

So that's how to photograph them!

By: Pete

Oradour-Sur-Glane France

It must have been a moving experience, but extremely sad.
There are some shots of the village in 'The World at War' series - we occasionally watch the DVDs. Tt was all such a terrible waste, and yet still the killing goes on. Says something about the human condition.....

By: brianpatcham

Steam Engine 42073

Very nice - a Fairburn tank.

By: rayme330

Bird On Stick

NaturesHeaven
Thanks - the only thing I can say in my defence is that the behaviour was rather odd. 'It' was standing on top of an old load of twigs (small bush that had beeen ivied to death in the field next to us) 'singing' for quite some time - long enough for me to approach reasonably closely. Didn't even fly away. Well, there was also a male chaffinch not far away making it's usual racket, so perhaps they were communicating?

By: petebfrance

Douarnenez, Bretagne

Thank-you for comments. Yes, a bit of haze - I tried some 'clever editing' but sadly have a lot to learn.
Viewpoint is on the road to visit Plomarc'h, a favourite spot of mine. Will attempt to find a picture that does the place justice and upload it.

By: petebfrance

Common Swallowtail

Thank-you for commenting - I ended up with quite a lot of photos of this one and will 'probably' upload a few more later

Pete

By: petebfrance

Brimstone

Thank-you for comments. I was quite surprised to get this one as I've rarely seen them....

By: petebfrance

Meleagers Blue (I think)

Thank you for comments (and votes!).
Have changed the title as there was a typo, should have been 'Meleager's Blue', not 'Meleanger's....

Mark, I'm not really sure. I was basing this on my book, a Collins Gem 'Butterflies and Moths,' which says that the main identifying feature of Meleager's Blue (compared to other Blues) is the scalloped edge at the rear of the hindwing.

regards
Pete

By: petebfrance

Tiny

Excellent gallery, but I just had to comment on this one. Beautiful.

By: KarenFB

Turquoise Damsel Fly

Karen
thank-you for comments. Now that I come to look at it again, yes removing the white spot (and possibly the grass, but I think that may help the balance if toned down a bit?) would have been a good idea.
Softness, well, I do struggle to get sharp macro at times (I blame the camera, of course).
I can see that I have a lot to learn

By: petebfrance