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This page shows some of the interesting things I have photographed, mostly in my old neighborhood, but in other places too.

Butterflies and Dragonflies

This page is mostly butterflies and dragonflies. You can click on each image to see a larger image.

Brookside Gardens is full of swallowtail butterflies. This is a female Eastern Black Swallowtail.	This is a male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. I took this one in 2012.
This is a Blue Beauty Lillypad with a Blue Dasher dragonfly.	This is another Blue Dasher taken with my 300mm zoom.
This is a Monarch Butterfly taken in Brookside Gardens Rose Garden	This is a Silver Spotted Skipper This is a small butterfly in Brookside Gardens.
I was in the right place at the right time to get this, a male common whitetail dragonfly	Right next to the picture at the left I saw this one, a female common whitetail dragonfly
This is a Great Spangled Fritillary taken in Craig County, VA.	This is another Great Spangled Fritillary taken in Craig County, VA.
A Great Spangled Fritillary in Brookside Gardens.	A Great Spangled Fritillary in Brookside Garden.
Eastern Amberwing-Female, July 2014 Note the wing reflections on the leaf?	Slaty Skimmer Brookside Gardens July, 2014
Blue Dasher eyes, - Hey, you looking at me?	Hummingbird Clearwing Moth, July 2014
Pearl Crescent Butterlfy	Milkweed Tussock Moth caterpillar 7/14 seen on the Nature Center Driveway
Another Hummingbird Clearwing Moth - Notice the curled proboscis?	Another Common Whitetail Dragonfly
Male Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly	Female Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly
Silver Spotted Skipper Drinking taken with a +1 dioper closeup lens	Monarch Butterfly up close taken with a +1 dioper closeup lens
This is a Spicebush Swallowtail seen in Brookside Gardens, August 2014	This is a male Black Swallowtail seen in Blue Mash park, August 2014
Cabbage White taken at Blue Mash Park, August 2014t	Cloudless Sulphur taken at Blue Mash Park, August 2014
Common Buckeye taken at Blue Mash Park, August 2014	Northern Pearly-eye taken at Blue Mash Park, August 2014
Pearl Crescent taken at Blue Mash Park, August 2014	Viceroy taken at Blue Mash Park, August 2014

Hardware

All the photos here were taken either with my Nikon D40, or my Nikon D5300.

I have three and 1/2 lenses and accessories:

A Nikon 18-135mm Zoom (which came with the camera)
A Sigma 70-300mm Zoom
A Sigma 150-500mm Zoom
A Sigma 1.4x Teleconverter (not really a lens so it gets 1/2 billing!
A set of Hoya Close-up lenses (+1, +2, +4 diopers)

Nikon ViewNX2 or Capture NX-D were used to adjust the images taken in NEF (RAW) format; Photoshop Elements was used to tweak the images for sizing and labels.

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My Wheaton Wildlife Photos - Butterflies

Butterflies and Dragonflies

Hardware