Category: Butterfly

Holly blue

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Celastrina argiolus or holly blue is a common butterfly during spring in Norway (May to June). In Norway we call it “blåvinge” which means “blue wing” in English.

In the shot below the butterfly is resting on heather. I have always wondered why the English name on these beautiful insects is “butterfly”. Somewhere I once read that it originally was named “flutter by” but as it could be difficult to pronounce “flutter by” the right way it developed to be “butterfly” in stead. Can this be right? It is reasonable as “flutter by” is kind of an easy description of the movements of this beautiful insect. Does anyone know if this is right? Please feel free to comment below 🙂

In Norway we say “sommerfugl” which in English means “bird of summer”.

Photo challenge – Many (a lot of)

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The theme for the last photo challenge I have each month with my friend Ellen was “many” (like in “a lot of”. It is always fun to have a photo challenge together with one or more friends because different people will solve the challenge differently. I always photograph things I can see, but from time to time I get ideas to make a composition but not very often. My friend Ellen is a more creative photographer and she is very good at combining these to ways of solving the task. So in this post I got permission to show Ellens photos together with my own.

Ellens Photos

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Both shots are beautiful but the one with all the books is my favorite 🙂

My photos

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Our next challenge is “Architecture”. It will be interesting to see how different we are able to solve that task 🙂 Anyway this way of training our photographic skills is very inspiring.

Butterflies

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A few days ago when I came home form work our little garden was crowded with butterflies. All summer it has been crowded with bumble bees and flower bees but now they was accompanied with butterflies. The flower beds contain mostly lavender and oregano. I rushed inside to get my camera and got to work, I was lying flat on the ground hoping the neighbors wouldn’t see me 😉

I was able to shoot three different species, there were four but butterflies don’t pose for the photographer so I had to be satisfied with the three of them, all so beautiful.

Tistelsommerfugl
Vanessa cardui – painted lady

 

Neslesommerfugl
Nymphalis urticae – small tortoiseshell

Keiserkåpe
Argynnis paphia – silver washed fritillary