While I usually feature flowers, recently East Anglia has enjoyed what I call Butterfly Weather. See how they settle with wings outstretched to soak up the sun, an invitation to my camera.
The Comma: 16th May 2019
This little beastie inconveniently settled upside down. No problem. I rotated the image. But that leaf was bang-centre of a patch of nettles, so I couldn’t get close.
Speckled Wood butterfly: 23rd April 2019
The Speckled Wood has to be one of the best-camouflaged butterflies. I only spotted this one when it alighted upon the bright green leaf.
crispina kemp 
I adore butterflies and this post!
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I thank you, Susan.
Alas, I can only post a few of Friday’s huge number of butterfly photos for the dratted things wouldn’t keep still. Though a wonderful display of Brimstones courting and mating, all I got was a blur, though behind the blur the grass was razor sharp.
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Beautiful! I’m glad at least these two stayed still long enough for you to capture them on film. And yes, that speckled one has good camouflage for those woods!
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I thank you, Joy. Best time to catch butterflies is early morning after a chilly night. Then the bask with their wings outspread.
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Butterflies are always a joy to spot. One landed on me once to my shock and everyone around me at the time LOL Great photo’s!
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I thank you. The courting brimstones settled, still joined, on my daugher, but I wasn’t quick enough.
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Wow! That’s surely a sign of good luck! 😊
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Not really. she still didn’t get the photo!
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LOL At least she had the experience. A missed moment in time is all 😊
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Indeed.
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Lovely! 😊
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Agreed. I thank you. 🙂
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When you mentioned that you normally photograph flowers and are doing butterflies today, I started thinking about the textural similarities between petals and butterfly wings. There’s a common beauty between them, I think.
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The wings of some butterflies look exceptionally petal-like. But up close the difference shows. Petals have a silken feel, butterfly wings are coated in dusty scales. But whoever gets that close? Um, well, occasionally my camera does.
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I don’t like the feeling of destroying butterfly wings with my fingers. I can’t help but think I’m hurting their chances of survival.
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I read, or heard, somewhere that those dusty scales are needed for survival. Maybe it has to be with heat regulation, but I’ve not read up on it
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Either way, it feels cruel, so I try to avoid it.
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The only time I’ll handle one is when, at the end of summer, they fall to the ground, cold, stiff and dead.
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Absolutely lovely, Crispina!
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Aw, gosh, Dale, I thank you
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My pleasure. I speak true
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Smile spreads. happiness rises
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As well it should!
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Beautiful capture 😍
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And again, I thank you. Even bigger smiles
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😀🤗
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Ooh, lovely butterfly! That’s a beautiful shot!
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I thank you. Some more this coming Sunday, then it’ll be too warm for the flittering tikes to pose for a photo.
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