Summer photos: Two Rare Butterflies
Five photos of two large butterflies you don't get to see often in The Netherlands.
The white admiral (Limenitis camilla), kleine ijsvogelvlinder in Dutch:
Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/250s
Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/800s
Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO125, f5.6, 1/500s
The purple emperor (Apatura iris), grote weerschijnvlinder in Dutch:
Olympus XZ-1, 112mm, ISO100, f8, 1/125s
Olympus XZ-1, 112mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/80s
That last one lives high up in oak trees, and rarely descends to the gound to search for minerals. When they do, they land on less-than-attractive backgrounds. Sorry about that.
wow, so beautiful butterflies!!! The purple emperor is really wonderful whith tha shades of blue and the eyes!
They are only blue under a specific angle to the light; they can keep it from you when you walk around them and they turn with you. It can be a bit of a game to get the blue in the photo.
butterflies are so beautiful atimes they just look like artificials
So you say that the artificial things are more beautiful than the natural living beings/creatures and things?
They looks/seems like completely natural to me. As every living animal and every living being/creature on the planet.
Natural things/creatures are always more beautiful than artificial things.
Lovely butterflies. I manage to see white admiral most years but am yet to track down a purple emperor. They're pretty high on my 'would like to see' list :)
nice shots... i saw the last one also this summer... he is really beautiful :)
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beautiful butterflies!!! Thank you for sharing