Cape May Buckeye

I was excited to get several shots of some beautiful butterflies while at Cape May on our anniversary. This lovely Buckeye was pulling out all the stops to impress me.

[Jennifer]

It's so beautiful, marvellous capture. So sharp!

[Kerri]

Beautiful!

[Rick Schies]

You are so lucky that she sat still for you. I have not been that lucky

[Geertje K.]

So beautiful! Perfect focus on those eyes!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@jesperani Thanks Jennifer!
@kerristephens Thanks Kerri!
@digitalrn Thanks Rick!

I was pretty excited about this one. I tried out one of those new frames on PicMonkey though and I'm not liking the way it looks here! Oh well!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@geertje Thanks Geertje!

[Allison Williams]

Lucky you to get a shot of the butterfly showing off his colors. I can never seem to catch them ln that pose. He is very handsome.

[beachradish]

Definitely posing ... I like his colors against the light background!

[Colleen]

Wonderful!

[karenann]

I'm impressed ...love the pov, the lighting and the gorgeous colors!

[Adrian Greenhalgh]

Nice butterfly with wonderful composition the stony backdrop working nicely.

[Sharon Addison]

oh this is a lovely photo - love the POV and colour tones

[davide]

fantastic butterfly! you've captured it so well!!

[Mrs. Smith]

Beautiful! Focus is perfect!

[Kimmi]

Beautiful butterfly

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@allie912 Thanks Allison! He landed right in front of me- how could I resist!?
@beachradish Thanks Beachradish! I couldn't have asked for a better background- but that's what was there.
@httpgeffed Thanks Colleen!
@karenann Thanks Karenann!
@zshadowwalker Thanks Adrian! He landed right on the path- it was perfect.
@sharonaddison Thanks Sharon!
@woot Thanks Davide!
@mrssmith Thanks Carla!
@kimmistephens Thanks Kimmi!

Thanks you everyone. I was really happy with this one. It was extemely hard to shoot in the bright sun. I couldn't see the picture in the camera, so a lot of times I was guessing if the macro was working or not!

[Rich Hubbard]

Great capture Ann, I like the circular "eyespots" on his wings. These spots make the butterfly look like the face of a larger animal such as an owl, scaring away some predators.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@rhubbard Thanks Rich- I'll be posting one more of this fellow tomorrow- where it's doing just that.

[Dione Giorgio]

Gorgeous capture.

[summerfield]

and obviously it succeeded, didn't it? that's a lovely shot against the rocks. buckeye on the rocks!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@sangwann Thank you Dione!
@summerfield Thank you Vikki! (Yes, he did!)

[Crickle]

so pretty

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@crickle1969 Thanks Chrystal!

[Phil]

Beautiful - what a wonderful shot of it, on the colour-co-ordinating enhancing rocks too!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@filsie65 Thanks Phil- yes this was one color-coordinating Buckeye!

[Wendy Bowden]

beautiful capture

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@wenbow Thank you Wendy!

[Bev]

Oh wow! This is beautiful! Excellent shot! I still haven't gotten any butterflies in all the time I've been doing this project! Grrr!!! Great capture! Well done!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@prttblues Thanks Bev! This was the place to photograph butterflies and I couldn't miss this one since it landed on the path right in front of me!