I cheated today, because I took this picture last year (as you may have guessed from the barley/oats that it’s resting on).
Personally, I love this picture, because there’s a glint in this little guy’s eye that seems to exude character.
As it happened, I had him labelled as a moth for all this time – probably because of the hairy look about him. However, after trawling the web for a good half hour, I finally figured out that he is actually a Large Skipper Butterfly. He’s supposed to live a bit further south than this, which would probably explain why I’d never seen one before – but I think he’s gorgeous, and I’ll be looking around for a few more members of his clan as the weather warms up.
© Alice through the Macro Lens [2012]
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This is beautiful. You are able to see the bug in such detail and you could almost think that it has hair on its body like a mammal, but that is just the workings of macro photography for you. Great picture.
It is very fluffy isn’t it! I think that’s why it doesn’t look so ugly as many of them.
Thanks for the comment 🙂
Great macro shot! Love the bokeh! 🙂
Thank you. Not sure I know what bokeh means though! 🙂
Bokeh is the blur of the background or out of focus subject 😉
I think he’s watching you, wondering if you are friend or foe 🙂
Well, I’m glad he trusted me long enough to get the picture! 🙂
Wonderful!
Thank you sir!
Great marco I love your bugs I need to get some of mine up.
You should – don’t keep them all to yourself !
Lovely shot Alice.. great colours..
Thank you ma’am.
I hope you are feeling better in yourself x
It’s slow Alice.. AS long as I don’t think about work I’m not too bad!!