2/9/18

So I found some good photos in the archives this past weekend and this is another.  This is one of the Butterflies that I captured at the Butterfly Pavillion outside of Denver a while back.  I believe this is a Blue Morpho.  

7/19/17

I haven't shared a butterfly for a while so here you go.  😁  This is a shot I got a while ago on a trip to Denver and a Butterfly house just north of the city.  This is one of my favorite tropical butterflies, a Paper Kite, perched on some Penta flowers I think.  Paper Kites are fairly large butterflies and quite beautiful and dainty even though larger.  Their wingspan is a good 4 inches or even more across.  I've seen one that was at least 6 inches across.  Could be this one.  LOL  It's been a while.

1/27/16

A lovely sunny warmer day today.  Doesn't mean I am not still thinking of Summer though.  Today's image is of another type of blue Butterfly that I was able to see.  I visited the Butterfly Pavilion outside Denver, Colorado a while back and it was quite a cool place with all kinds of lovely butterflies fluttering and sitting about on flowers and plants.  This one is called a Metallic Blue Wave that sat very nicely for me to take it's photograph.

1/19/16

A very winter day today, cold, dreary, maybe snow.  Yuck.  I am dreaming of summer.  Someone on G+ asked me if I had ever photographed a blue butterfly.  I have taken shots of a few varieties of blue ones.  This one is the most brilliant blue of them and the one with the most blue.  I photographed this one on a trip to Colorado a while back and this is from a Butterfly House just north of Denver.  This is a Common Blue Morpho and a very dificult one for me to get.  They are usually in flight or sit with their wings closed so you can't see the lovely blue.  This one is an older one most likely if the tattered wing is any indication but was sitting still for a bit and I was able to get in close and capture the texture in the wings as well as the color.