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I got this one today thought it was pretty!
* * * * Tonight I am having friends for dinner... Hanibal Lector My Album Plants: 13562 | From: Lawrence,Ma | Registered: Mar 2006
| Seeded: 66.31.21.34
* * * * We are all under the same stars... therefore we are never far apart. Plants: 30076 | From: Washington, the state that is... | Registered: Aug 2004
| Seeded: 66.235.45.83
* * * * Tonight I am having friends for dinner... Hanibal Lector My Album Plants: 13562 | From: Lawrence,Ma | Registered: Mar 2006
| Seeded: 66.31.21.34
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Hi, Gail! It's Me< Thornius! Your butterfly is a Fritillary of some sort, possibly a Great-Spangled, Meadow, or Silver edged Fritillary. I could not find an EXACT match, but all of these are similar to your Butterfly. I used eNature.com to look at them.
* * * * A bird in the hand......can sometimes be a mess. Plants: 2894 | From: Nashville, TN | Registered: May 2005
| Seeded: 70.149.157.251
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Wow! These are some really awesome pictures! I loved all of them. Thanks so much for sharing!
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| Seeded: 199.217.139.114
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Very cool!
This Eastern Tiger Swallowtail was telling me to take his picture this morning, so I obliged him! Here he is!
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loz
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I was just in time with that pic too, as soon as I took them my camera went dead! And there were tons of others I wanted to get pics of.
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quote:Originally posted by Thornius: Beautiful, Loz......and you have Zinnias, one of my favorite flowers!
I have TONS of Zinnias.....tons and tons of them! I just love them--for attracting butteflies, but also because they are great cut flowers and last a long time in a vase. Later on I'll go outside and take some pictures of them all---my pond is surrounded by them.
I think he was posing there too!
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Beautiful pictures, folks...gotta love those flutterbyes.
loz, next time you have an emergency "power down" with your digital, sometimes you can quickly swap the batteries to the opposite position in the camera and eke out a few more shots. Try it next time...doing that has saved me from pulling out my hair several times recently. lol!
* * * * Rosie z7a Plants: 745 | From: Tulsa OK | Registered: Oct 2005
| Seeded: 68.14.167.179
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Can I ask you how you take such perfect pictures like this? I am a new gardener and try to take pic's like this, but don't get close enough I think.
quote: loz, next time you have an emergency "power down" with your digital, sometimes you can quickly swap the batteries to the opposite position in the camera and eke out a few more shots.
I'll try that next time! I was close to pulling out my hair this morning!
I think a lot of the pic quality has to do with the camera you have....I really like my sony camera....but I think we've all taken bum shots before. It's mostly camera quality and practice! My camera goes almost everywhere with me. Never know when you'll spot a good picture!
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Wrennie, gailo, who started this topic is one of my birding buddies on the birdersworld.com forum. She discovered this site on her own and started posting when I told her I was a member, too. We birders switch to butterflys, insects, dragonflies, and wildflower photography when birding gets slow, usually in the HOTTEST part of the Summer (RIGHT NOW!!!!!)
* * * * A bird in the hand......can sometimes be a mess. Plants: 2894 | From: Nashville, TN | Registered: May 2005
| Seeded: 65.1.97.155
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Beautiful pics all! To see gorgeous butterfly in the garden kinda makes your eart sing, don't you think? Here's one of a black swallowtail larva on dill:
Now click on photo to see the adult on thistle.
Plants: 118 | From: Kingston, Ontario | Registered: Nov 2005
| Seeded: 24.226.91.184
* * * * We are all under the same stars... therefore we are never far apart. Plants: 30076 | From: Washington, the state that is... | Registered: Aug 2004
| Seeded: 66.235.45.83
* * * * "Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name. Amen!" Plants: 6492 | From: Illinois | Registered: Feb 2006
| Seeded: 199.217.139.104
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Super pix all!!! Here's my contribution. Please notice I got a pleasing angle of the hose, too. Don't you just hate when that happens? lol! At least there was also some nice shadow play to add interest.
* * * * Rosie z7a Plants: 745 | From: Tulsa OK | Registered: Oct 2005
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Wow, Rosie, that's a beautiful picture of the butterfly and that's a nice hose, too! Geesh, I wish I had a camera with a good zoom lens so I could take some pictures of my butterflies. If I get too close they fly away!
* * * * "Lord, I love you and I need you, come into my heart, and bless me, my family, my home, and my friends, in Jesus' name. Amen!" Plants: 6492 | From: Illinois | Registered: Feb 2006
| Seeded: 199.217.139.128
* * * * "I don't want no more of army life, gee mom, I wanna go, but they won't let me go, gee mom, I wanna go home!" My PB! Plants: 6469 | From: Staten Island, NYC | Registered: Jul 2006
| Seeded: 64.12.117.7
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I got a picture of a tiger swallowtail I kind of like because of the plain dark background. I'm not sure what it is. Maybe someone's jeans. Just thought I'd share.
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It's Me< Thornius! Your butterfly is a Fritillary of some sort, possibly a Great-Spangled, Meadow, or Silver edged Fritillary. I could not find an EXACT match, but all of these are similar to your Butterfly. I used eNature.com to look at them.
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Summer Camp '07, July 14th weekend, won't you join us? 
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