December 2007 Entries - Close up and personal

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December 2007 Entries - Close up and personal

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This is the December 2007 competition. Please read the competition introduction at:

http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB2/v ... .php?t=991

To enter the December competition, please post a single reply to this message (1 post per member). You'll be able to edit your entry until 5th January.

Please note the "theme" - close up and personal! Interpret as you see fit :)

Cheers,

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Yippee!! I've come first! :lol:

OK - if people are going for really close up, here's that famous blue spot in all its scale-by-scale glory (taken this July in the Val d'Aran)! I don't think it's a winning photo but it's quite an interesting view:

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PS - the Meleager's blues didn't get any votes last time I showed them anyway :(
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Joining a Red Admiral for lunch :D

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It's the taking part that counts!
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This is a moth I know (Elephant Hawk Moth Head) Feeding on a flower.

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Small P B Fritillary

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Plan View of Small P B Fritillary


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painted lady

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Here's my entry for this month- a Marbled White under attack from a lurking crab spider.

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A gatekeeper close up. Macro on a budget using a Raynox lens on a Canon S3 :)
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A plain old clouded yellow, always a special butterfly, photographed this summer (the rules say in the month of the competition, but I guess that's relaxed in December).

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I don't think the pictures even have to be taken this year, Roger. See the October page (http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB2/v ... php?t=1708) for the rules on these themed competitions.

Having said that, clouded yellows are December butterflies round my parts...

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Here's the best I can do this month..... Heath Frit.

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december comp entry #1

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here is a pasha i met in corfu

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Picture taken 28th April 2007 at Ivinghoe Beacon in the Chilterns / Buckinghamshire.
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WoW, some very good pics in this month`s competition so i wont win as usual, a single vote would be a victory fo me.
A Bee Fly from the summer
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Excuse the dirty finger-nail!

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Chalkhill Blue Devils Dyke 28th July 2007

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Clouded Apollo - trying to hide...

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