Sunday, May 6, 2012

Red Admiral/Sunday Best

Red admiral  and dandelions

So far, this year has been a great year for migrating red admirals, which have arrived here in huge numbers.

I am linking to Your Sunday Best at A Rural Journal

33 comments:

  1. tex commented on her blog yesterday about flying flowers, this photo proves why. beautiful and the admiral does look like a flying flower.

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  2. Nice close up Camera Girl. I have also been seeing lots of these butterflies in my area. Must be a good year for them.

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  3. I've seen several around here, but they have successfully avoided my camera—so far. This is a well composed shot. They are beautiful creatures.

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  4. Love this red admiral agaisnt the yellows! Just beautiful.

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  5. Colors and composition are quite lovely. Butterflys are so photogenic!

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  6. Great shot, CG. Butterflies help me believe the world is still spinning and all is well.

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  7. Oh! what a FANTASTIC photo!! :) I haven't seen any butterflies yet.. they are so lovely! :)

    I love this photo of yours!! =)

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  8. Brilliant yellow in this picture, the butterfly is so cute!
    Léia

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  9. What a beauty! Great butterfly shot, they're hard to catch. :)

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  10. I've been amazed at the number of butterflies and moths in our little area alone this year. Lovely capture dear -- thank you for sharing at Your Sunday Best this week. oxo

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  11. These guys seem to be abundant everywhere. I have lots of them around but I love to see them. This is a beautiful capture.

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  12. Aren't they amazing?!
    Your beaver shots are great, too!
    Well done.
    Greetings from Cottage Country East!

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  13. Lovely, lovely shot!

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  14. Lovely shot! It looks so simple yet is surprisingly tough to do - well done!

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  15. Very nice, EG!! With the millions of them swirling around you'd think I would have had better luck than I've had in getting a nice shot of one.

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  16. This is just beautiful!
    Love that gorgeous background.

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  17. They seem to be everywhere this year!

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  18. There has been a tidal wave of Red Admirals in my front at the same time each morning since May 1st. So beautiful! So magical! And they are so friendly!

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  19. You just keep getting better and better!

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  20. Amazing what a beautiful photo can be made from a plain little old dandelin, a butterfly, and just the right angle of lighting and zoom!

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  21. Beautiful! I love the processing!

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  22. This is a stunningly beautiful pic!!

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  23. Great captured. It would fly off before I managed to get a picture.

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  24. Hi there - great picture. I've had a bad summer for butterflies, so it’s nice to see it is actually possible to get decent pictures of them!

    Cheers - Stewart M - Australia

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  25. A very pretty capture! The butterfly is gorgeous and I love the composition of your shot. Those sunny yellow flowers make me smile this morning :)

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  26. we had thousands on friday, i did not get one single picture.

    this is beautiful!!!

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