By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Delicate.
Flowers, of course… but also the way insects hold on to them, right way up or upside down, with a delicate touch…
Some other nice “Delicate” posts:
- Flickr Comments
- Scottseyephotos
- Johanstellerphotography
- Milners Blog
- Lost in Translation
- OUT & ABOUT in the city
- Fenland Photos
- right in front of me
- samapictures
- Learning to See Light
- Dory’s World
- breathofgreenair
- f-stop fantasy
- Jane’s Lens
- Broken Light: A Photography Collective
- patriciaddrury
- Pseu’s Blog
- Gasm Travels
- yi-ching lin photography
- Frames & Focus
- Eat, travel, photograph
- Artifacts and fictions
- A Nature Mom
Vladimir Brezina
Johna Till Johnson
Beautiful shots.
Thank you!
The first shot’s wonderfully detailed, even if it does feature an, ulp, fly. And I love the two monarch shots :)
Flies are fascinating when you see them up close, magnified ;-)
perfect!
Thanks!
Love the butterflies…
Yes, they are just begging to be photographed…
Another sterling post.
Thanks so much!!
These are so beautiful. Delicate and beautiful.
Thank you!!
Perfectly delicate for the theme!
Thanks, Shaanthz!
Beautiful captures!
Thank you very much!!
The bee is delicate and at one point almost extinct !
Let’s hope not!
they are so beautiful :)
:-)
wow :-)
:-) :-)
Those are all beautiful, but the fly one is especially spectacular.
Yes, I like the fly myself :-)
Gorgeous images!
Thank you!!
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Just beautiful, Vlad – delicate and exquisite. What an eye you have!
Thanks, Lynn! Still trying to train it properly…
Oh, well that is an ongoing process :-)
Great entry for this theme, Vlad! The word delicate definitely comes to mind!
Especially, to my mind, the way the insects hang on delicately upside down…
beautiful Vlad…so clear. We are overrun with Monarch butterflies at the moment, some areas are running out of the plants they feed on
That must be quite a sight to see, and photograph :-)
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Gorgeous for days. Love these!
Thank you!!
Lovely!
Thanks!
Great shots
Thanks, Sue!
Delicate indeed — very nice, Vlad!
Thanks, Frank!
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Beautiful!
Thank you so much!
was just thinking to post butterflies photo too,loved the monarch nothing as delicate as babies,butterflies,doves,puppies
Yes, and I think most of the responses to this challenge were along these lines :-)
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All wonderfully delicate.
Thanks, Jeff!
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Gorgeous!
Glad you like them!
:)
So lovely to see these photos as we transition from fall to winter…
The insects are all gone now… but they’ll be back in the Spring!
These are all beautiful; but the last with the yellow and purple flowers is particularly gorgeous.
There’s a whole post of the photos from that day here.
Thanks! Love all the photos, but particularly like your description of the milkweed bug clumps as “fiery encrustations!” Now THAT’s descriptive!
Did I write that? :-) It certainly does sound appropriate, the way I remember it…
ha ha!
Your pictures are so beautiful.. stunning!
Glad you like them!
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I love the monarch!
Yes, they are spectacular!
Absolutely beautiful!
Thanks! :-)
Hi Vladimir, Beautiful images- love butterflies and they are not easy to capture! Thank you for your mention of my blog-appreciate it!
In flight, not easy. But when they land on a flower, there’s your chance!
Wow, exquisite – I really like butterflies but they rarely stay still for long – you have done an excellent job capturing them!
Got to move fast! Fortunately, you have plenty of chances as the butterfly flits from one flower to the next. If one photo doesn’t come out the next will…
I love the last photo – blue and yellow together…gorgeous!
… and the butterfly and bee :-)
These photos are not only delicate…they are delightful too! In the winter months when the days have a tendency to be a little on the dreary side, these photos were very refreshing! You are an amazing photographer! :)
Trying to be … thanks for your encouragement!! :-)
Two posts in a row now we get to see a different side of your photography. It’s quite a change from the Gowanus Canal.
Yes, the presentable and the unpresentable sides of NYC :-)
Love the butterflies.
Great—thanks!!
Very lovely and properly exposed closeups. Wonderful colors in those Monarch images!
…I love the teal-colored background in that pair!
Thanks, John!! :-)
Congratulations – your photos of the butterflies on the flowers are brilliant.
Thanks—glad you like them!!
I am used to seeing butterflies drink nectar, but never a fly. Fascinating!
I didn’t really think about it either, but apparently it’s pretty common.
How did you get them to hold still for you? Amazing.
Sorry about this, but I loathe insects —
but even I think that first shot is amazingly delicate and beautiful.
They’ll hold still when they are feeding—for a few seconds at most, but that’s all you need…
Fantastic images- thanks for sharing!
You are most welcome! Happy New Year!
I love butterfly time of the year. :) It’s so warm.
Yes… in this case, it was the Indian Summer in late October, really the last days for the butterflies…
Stunning shots :)
Thanks, Jenn!