Butterflies Alive! This was my first attempt to capture a butterfly in flight. This was at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens green house in Richmond Va.where they release hundreds of...

Photohaulic Loc: Ashland Va

This was my first attempt to capture a butterfly in flight. This was at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens green house in Richmond Va.where they release hundreds of butterflies to photograph. Quite a challenge as they are very erratic in flight.

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

Photohaulic wrote:

This was my first attempt to capture a butterfly in flight. This was at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens green house in Richmond Va.where they release hundreds of butterflies to photograph. Quite a challenge as they are very erratic in flight.

Roger, great captures.I think you nailed how to capture butterfly's in flight. The trick I learned is patience and observation.

Photohaulic Loc: Ashland Va

Thanks! It did take a lot of patience. I must have taken over 100 shots to get 5 keepers.

tbell7D Loc: Houston

Good ones Roger. Nice work on these.

Leicaflex Loc: Cymru

Good effort.
These all darlings are not easy to photograph.

JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

Some very nice portraits and in-flight. I haven't got any in flight yet, only on flowers and branches. Nice!

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

The blue morpho escapes being eaten by its erratic flight and the alternating brilliant blue and drab brown as it flaps its wings. And they almost never open their wings when resting on something, so they only show the dull brown which looks like a leaf or blends in with the rainforest floor of dead leaves - the second photo confuses me, with what looks like the inside of the wing on the outside...

Photohaulic Loc: Ashland Va

I hadn't noticed that sb! I had to think about myself for a moment. It dose look backwards but it's because I caught it in the full down stoke of it's wings.

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

Birdwing butterfly (that is the large black and yellow one you have)... That is a goal of mine to photograph. Not many butterfly houses have them.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Nice series.

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

sb wrote:

The blue morpho escapes being eaten by its erratic flight and the alternating brilliant blue and drab brown as it flaps its wings. And they almost never open their wings when resting on something, so they only show the dull brown which looks like a leaf or blends in with the rainforest floor of dead leaves - the second photo confuses me, with what looks like the inside of the wing on the outside...

In that one the butterfly wings are in a deep downstroke so you are seeing the tops of its wings. Birds do the same.

jeanbug35 Loc: Jonesboro AR

That sounds about right but you did good.

Photohaulic wrote:

Thanks! It did take a lot of patience. I must have taken over 100 shots to get 5 keepers.

Szalajj Loc: Salem, NH

Great shots of often elusive creatures.

I'm headed out to Deerfield, MA on Saturday to shoot some butterflies!

I hope that I have as good luck as you did!

Madman Loc: Gulf Coast, Florida USA

Well done, thanks for sharing.

Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida

Very nice series of butterflies. Well done!