Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!Â
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper! Â
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (26)
anmes
Wonderful and quuite amazing detail when zoomed
dwarvenkind
Lovely butterfly.
Juliette.Gribnau
yes.. we have more b'flies too; a joy !!! beautiful photo !
Mondwin
Superbly macro my friend!!!!!!!!!!!!Bravissimo!!!!:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
jmb007
jolie
miwi
Beautiful capture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pat40
Wonderful pic Andrea
CavalierLady
Beautifully captured...that's a great POV.
emmecielle
Fantastic macro, Andrea! Details and colours are very beautiful! :)
Jean_C
Wonderful butterfly, excellent capture!
jayfar
Lovely shot Andrea and I am about to post one I took two days ago in the garden.
moochagoo
Really nice butterfly.
MrsRatbag
How lovely he is! Wonderful capture!
jendellas
Beautiful!!
iaacf
It seems lots of Red Admirals (atalanta's) are in our gardens.. They (inclusing this shot) are so beautiful.
mickuk50
It`s the same here .I have never seen so many for a long time .The main attraction is the Erysimum. It has never stopped flowering since I bought it last Spring ,including the winter!!
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Alas not in London, this summer/autumn, I have seen literally one peacock, one painted lady, one comma, one common blue (Captured) and 5 common whites, appalling statistic to ram down the throat of developers and that useless gormless Boris Johnson, who wants to build yet another airport, what a wanker!
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
Star4mation
A real beauty Andrea :)
blinkings
Beautiful. I enjoyed seeing Jeff's shot too.
auntietk
Stunning!
wysiwig
Extraordinary image. This handsome specimen is perfectly framed against the background and the color and detail is superb.
Mark-David-Rogers
It's always nice to see butterflies in the garden, they like specific flowers and clearly you have plenty of those for them to enjoy and in turn we enjoy them through the lovely captures like this.
Chipka
What a beauty! Just look at that streamlined face and those wings! Somebody looks quite good, and knows it! You captured this little one perfectly and I simply love the colors! Okay, there's an insect involved and so that piqued my interest, but still, this is a marvel of a photo! I love the brilliance of everything in it, especially the colors. Chicago hasn't had a huge number of butterflies, and the cicadas are a bit sparse this year too! I think it's the weather, lots of stuff got waterlogged and rotted. Oh well, at least I can see nice little critter-people here on Renderosity. I really like this!
danapommet
A super POV Andrea, lovely colors and very zoomable!
Faemike55
Beautiful Truly beautiful