Day 271 – A Bit Cold For Fluttering

When I took this photograph it was coming up to the end of October, so as in an earlier post, it really was a surprise to see a butterfly on such a really cold day.

As I was inside the house and just spotted him outside at the top of a window, I had to take the photograph in an awkward position to try to get a good view of him.

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011/2012

With the awkward angle I was at to take the photo, I could not really avoid the reflection in the window of some of the window frame etc.. 

Day 266 – Going For A Spin!

I wanted to take this photograph because it seemed to me to be a little unusual  seeing a butterfly in October!

On this particular day it was also extremely windy which also suprised me that a butterfly would be out flying about in such winds.

This chap landed on our ornamental frog windmill thingy so I took a pic before he flew off.

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011/2012

As this butterfly sat there, the wind made the wheel he was sitting on spin around!!  I took a couple of pics but they were a bit blurred so I had to wait for the wind to stop to take another pic, showing how the wheel had moved and the butterfly was still there!

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011/2012

Suddenly the wind whisked the wheel round and round and round at great speed and the butterfly just hung on!!  As soon as it stopped he flew away, probably feeling very dizzy!!

Day 81 – Butterfly

 

It seems I’m back to nature with this photograph today.  I was taking photographs of different flowers in my dear Mum’s garden so she could send some to one of her friends and I noticed this butterfly flitting about on one of the shrubs. 

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011

Even though I say it myself, I think this is one of my better photos!     I have found previously that if I zoom in closer to flowers the photographs always look blurry.

I took several pics of the butterfly, or tried to, but it kept moving about all over the shrub, and then decided that I would zoom in  a bit to pick up the butterfly better than from a distance.  I’m amazed this isn’t showing all blurry flowers!!

Here’s a close-up of the butterfly – anyone know what type it is?

Original photograph taken by me - copyright 2011

 It’s brown and cream, they are the only colours on it.  I haven’t seen one like this before so it would be interesting to find out what it is!

(hmmmm, nothing to do with this particular post, but each time I uploaded the photos, they appeared at the very top of the page and my text went underneath the lot!  When I juggled a bit to get the photos in the right place and the right order, I then copied and pasted my text into it’s proper place for each photo, but it only centres the text and I can’t change it!!  I do my text starting at the lefthand border normally but it just won’t go there today!!   Gremlins in the WordPress works)!!