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.  

8/11/16

We're supposed to get some rain tonight to cool it off for a few days at least.  It's hot so I hope it does cool down even if the rain misses us, it's humid enough already.  Can you believe it, me saying it's OK if it doesn't rain?  LOL  So today's photo I shot this past weekend.  I got this small butterfly on some Rose of Sharon buds.  I need help with an ID.  As you can see it has a definite blue cast to the upper wing but the pattern of the under wing does not match any of the Blue Butterflies I can find.  The only thing I can come up with that it may be is a Duskywing but it seems too light and they aren't normally blue.   Leave a comment if you know, thanks in advance! 

Update:  I have since been told and checked it out, this is a Marine Blue Butterfly.  It is not normally found in this area and that's why I had so much trouble.  It is found in from South America through Mexico up to Southern Texas, Arizona and California.

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.