untonuggan: a forest filled with sunlight and small purple flowers (spring trees)
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So [personal profile] spiralsheep 's artwork and photographs continue to inspire me, and now that [personal profile] automaticdoor has graciously gotten me more Flickr space - well! It was only a matter of time before I started photographing butterflies and bees in tribute, and Saturday was the perfect day. Perfect because I went to a plant sale with my mum, and eventually I got bored of looking at plants and started taking photos instead.


Dancing common whites
It was hard to capture the sense of movement, but these (what I think are) common whites were basically dancing amidst the flowers.

Butterfly on coneflower
I have no idea what this butterfly is, but I do like the colors. I know it's on coneflower. At one point there were about five of them, but I couldn't get a clear shot.

Bumblebee
Bumblbee on a flower of some sort. I like the textures in this one, personally.

Yay, dreamwidth!

Date: 2012-09-24 02:33 pm (UTC)
spaceoperadiva: little jellical cat in a sink (Default)
From: [personal profile] spaceoperadiva
Lovely. I think the endless depth of field works especially well on the bumblebee one.

Date: 2012-09-24 03:12 pm (UTC)
spiralsheep: Flowers (skywardprodigal Cog Flowers)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
Ooo... lovely. I like the bee photo best. I have no experience of IDing non-Euro butterflies but the second one might be some sort of frittilary? If you cross-post it to [community profile] common_nature with a request for help then one of the members might offer a suggested ID?

Date: 2012-09-25 01:55 pm (UTC)
spiralsheep: The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity (ish icons Curiosity Cures Boredom)
From: [personal profile] spiralsheep
I was wrong before (although I got Nymphalidae, heh). I think your butterfly might be a silvery checkerspot:

http://www.google.com/search?q=silvery+checkerspot&btnG=Search&hl=en&gbv=1&tbm=isch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlosyne_nycteis

:-)

Date: 2012-09-24 09:58 pm (UTC)
31stcentury: (drawing: garden)
From: [personal profile] 31stcentury
ooh nice!

I like the textures in this one,
me toooo.

Date: 2012-09-25 02:10 am (UTC)
pipisafoat: image of virgin mary with baby jesus & text “abstinence doesn’t work" (eleven cents)
From: [personal profile] pipisafoat
Pictures! *appreciates*

Date: 2012-09-25 03:37 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] spring_dream
Pretty! I like how in the first one the butterfly on the left seems to be in mid flight :)

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