Thanks Roger

Great story, thanks for sharing, they are lovely butterflies, I was chuffed to see my first

Much appreciated Guy, many thanks for the quick reply

Hi folks, I took these shots in the Loire valley France back in June, I would very much appreciate some ID confirmation as I never seen either of these before :) http://www1.clikpic.com/mikeakabigman/images/ST-Blue-copy.jpg http://www1.clikpic.com/mikeakabigman/images/Short-tailed-blue-copy.jpg I'm ...

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Congratulations to Gary (Gruditch) for a resounding win with 15 votes.

Following closely on his heels in second place comes FishEE with 10 votes.

In third place with a respectable 9 votes is Guy(Padfield)

Well done everyone on a superb selection of images and congratulations to the winners.

Cheers Pete......

Hi Guys,
No I havent reset the counter, if you have placed three votes then please do not vote again.
It may be that when I edited the thread to remove Bryan H from the voting list that the system has automatically reset.....I don't really know, but it sounds plausable

Thanks Bryan H, you have have proved my point, by entering chat and a Duplicate image in the competition thread you helped me to make a mistake .
I REST MY CASE !

You should be able to cast three votes, I cant see anything in my control panel to suggest otherwise, I've cast my three and can't cast more

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The photo shop stuff - Maurice Pugh advised me at the UK Butterflies photography workshop day, that my Common Blue pic, would be better if I removed the blade of grass running at an angle in front of the butterfly’s antenna. And I think he's right, Lisa, I would have defo got rid of it, it improves...

It is not knee jerk reaction, a discussion was started in the April competion thread which led me to believe that some folk may want change and that we should at least look at the present system to see if it can be improved or made fairer, this is purely a fact finding project. In the mean time I ha...

Further to recent discussion in the April Competition thread regarding whether images that have been manipulated should be allowed. I thought a poll may help us decide whether to have a catagory for images that have been altered past a certain point. The guide lines for this would have to be simple ...

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And the winner is David Tipping with 7 votes, congratulations David !

Close on his heels comes Eccles with a respectable 5 votes, well done!

In third place with 3 votes is Trev Sawyer.

Well done everyone who entered and better luck next month

Sorry I missed this when I was last logged in, great to see you posting Pete, welcome to the site and with a nice shot too........grumpy .... speak for yer self Gary!!

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Please only post photos taken during the month in question (unless the month in question has a theme) Taken from the link which is posted with each new comp. :) Pete is right, "open" was meant to signify returning to submitting any photo of any butterfly/stage taken during the current mon...

This is the April 2008 competition. Please read the competition introduction at: http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=991 To enter the competition, please post a single reply to this message (1 post per member). You'll be able to edit your entry until 5th May. Please note this is an...