Welcome Visitors!

Great fun taking our UK visitors to Chicago's butterfly house -- always a useful place to go on a gray and misty day. And butterflies cooperated pretty well - posing nicely for our visitors and landing on their backpacks and fingers.

[Elizabeth]

Pretty! I saw some of these at a butterfly exhibit in New York last month. They seem to move a little slower than the ones I encounter outdoors.

[Tony]

Beautiful delicate creature.

[Suse♡]

Oh my Gosh, so beautiful

[Denise Wood]

Terrific capture :)

[Joyce]

Beautiful capture Taffy. Fav

[Martina]

Amazing capture, showing both sides of wings. Fav

[maree_sanderson]

glorious capture of the iridescence on the wing...and love the detail on the other side...fav

[Barb Newcomb]

Love the pearly side.

[sally agnew]

Love the focus, detail and colour :)

[Janet B.]

This is beautiful, Taffy! What a wonderful place to take visitors!

[Nick]

Oh just so lovely. Really great.

[Harry J Benson]

good close-up, nice detail

[Cathy]

Amazing contrasting colors on the front and back of the wings!

[gloria jones]

Fabulous image, composition, light

[Thom Mitchell]

Beautiful capture, Taffy!

[Hope D Jennings]

Magic, Taffy! fav

[Disha Parekh]

So pretty! Fantastic macro!!

[Diane]

Neat shot!

[Rachel]

Lovely shot.

[Danette Thompson]

Super shot

[Danny G.]

Superlative! FAV

[Richard Hickey]

Incredible macro. Congratulations on making the Trending Page. Well deserved.

[Elisabeth Sæter]

Super shot

[Chris Johnson]

Love the look of this. What a beautiful butterfly!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Awesome close-up! Did you put two butterflies together here? I don't remember the Buck-eyes having iridescent blue tops.

[Taffy]

@olivetreeann Thanks! All the same butterfly. It's not a buck-eye but I can't remember the name of it.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

@taffy Wow- I think I've seen that pattern below- but I don't remember it having that color top. It's a great shot.

[Louise & Ken]

( @olivetreeann Blue Morpho, or something like that. Similar looking to the Owl's Eye, but it has more circles and "eyes") Nicely done, Taffy, that you captured both essences of the butterfly...and that isn't easily done! ...in SD, these were more plentiful and landed on everyone...not so, here...