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Butterfly pictures

Painted Lady, Otmoor, Oxon.

23 May 2009

Canon EOS 350D & EF 100mm f2.8 macro

Comma, Downs, Berks.

28 September 2008

Canon EOS 350D & EF 400mm f5.6 (without extension tubes or tripod)

Guatemalan Cracker, Santa Ana, Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA.

11 November 2007

A rare, accidental species for Texas. For more info on this trip, click here.

Canon EOS 350D & EF 400mm f5.6

Giant Swallowtail, Santa Ana, Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA.

11 November 2007

Unlike the above, a common species but more difficult to photograph, as it was never still. For more info on this trip, click here.

Canon EOS 350D & EF 400mm f5.6

Large Skipper, Kintbury, Berks.

8 July 2006

Taken on a dragonfly quest

Nikon CP 4500

Adonis Blue Butterfly

Ballard Down, Dorset

4 September, 2005

My first sighting of this brilliant blue beauty!

Nikon CP 4500

Six Spot Burnet, Seven Barrows, Berks.

2 July 2005

OK it's not a butterfly, but daytime moths are close enough to count, surely?

Nikon CP 4500

Probable Essex Skipper Seven Barrows, Oxon.

17 July 2004

With the Nikon CP 995.

Red Admiral, Home, Oxon.

August 2003

With my first digital camera using the macro setting - the Nikon CP 995.


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