Australian Painted Lady, an 'urban' butterfly that migrates from N.S.W. in great numbers in spring, moving on a front that extends for about 580 km inland from the coast. (Aust. Museum). That's 360 miles! I had no idea butterflies achieved this; no wonder some might look a little tattered.
Trying to get a photo while the wings were open was next to impossible too, they seemed to only open them momentarily, and then closed again..
The Australian Museum website here reports that in 1889, this butterfly migrated in such great numbers that they blackened the sky. Trains were unable to get traction because of them resting on the tracks!
18 comments:
Beautiful and colorful butterflies.
You have make beautiful photos!
Greetings, RW & SK
HI Carole You did well to photograph it at all! It is very difficult to shot as you say.
Lovely colors and very good photographed.....well done Carole.
Greetings, Joop
Very pretty butterfly. Lovely images, Carole!
Marvelous photos of this beautiful butterfly and the Golden Sedums. I have the same problem, when I come to close, the butterfly is moving...
Best regards, Synnöve
A gorgeous capture Carole .... magic !
Wunderschöne Fotos, da macht das Anschauen große Ffeude und daher komme ich sicherlich wieder vorbei :-)
Internette Grüße
Myriam
Superb captures!! love the photos..
just beautiful on the yellow blooms. so pretty!
Butterflies can be a challenge to photograph. You captured these beautifully!
Wonderful photos of the butterfly and golden sedum, Carol! You did well to get them.
Butterflies are extremely difficult to photograph as you say. My only luck lay with using a telephoto at distance giving them some space rather than moving in close with the macro lens. These are superb shots.
thanks all for your comments, and to John (Sinbad ...) that's what I had to do, step back and use the zoom
Carole, these are just beautiful.
Oh, gorgeous shots, Carole! The colors are fantastic!
Well I think that you did an awesome job on this beautiful butter fly. I especially love that first shot Carole. I think that it is very hard to photograph butterflies. I have been to two butterfly shows or gardens, and seemed as if everytime I looked at one it was fluttering much faster than I could move my lens. These are lovely though.
Absolutely stunning!
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