Summer of the butterflies (more pics #20)

**momoffuzzyfaces** · 08-07-2009, 08:38 AM

Those pics are absolutely gorgeous!!! What type camera do you have? (oops sorry! I just saw you already answered that. I'm going to have to get a camera like that!!!)
I am so jealous!!!

**Catherinedana** · 08-07-2009, 02:09 PM

Hi Kirsten,

What kind of flower is that they the butterflies are sitting on - is it some kind of heather? My mom wants to know to see if she can grow it here in Florida. She absolutely looooooooved the pictures!

Cathy

**Barbara** · 08-08-2009, 09:50 AM

The famous photographer-artist Man Ray didn't like to be asked what camera he used. He said "You wouldn't ask Leonardo what kind of paintbrush he used."

What I want to say is that even if I had Kirsten's camera I would still make my usual semi-unsharp pictures.
It is the eye of the photographer and her calm hand which makes them so special- and they truly are

Of course a good camera can add to that- if you are already a photographer. I bow in admiration and know I'm not

**Kirsten** · 08-08-2009, 10:08 AM

Thanks, Barbara - and everyone else!

What kind of flower is that they the butterflies are sitting on - is it some kind of heather? My mom wants to know to see if she can grow it here in Florida.

Must be some kind of thistle, I think... Anyway, the butterflies seem to love them! Glad your mother enjoyed the pics!

Kirsten

**Kirsten** · 08-09-2009, 10:50 AM

Here are some more! :-)

Wish I could tell you the names of the different kinds, but I hardly know them in German.

Kirsten

**Barbara** · 08-09-2009, 12:43 PM

Fuchs, Pfauenauge and Zitronenfalter- these are the names in German

But now it would need more internet research to translate them

The plant is a Buddleia- butterflies LOVE it.
The Fuchs is Aglais urticae. The Pfauenauge is Inachis io. And the Zitronenfalter is Gonepteryx rhamni. (Back from research)

**Kirsten** · 08-09-2009, 12:58 PM

I did some reseach meanwhile, Barbara...

Fuchs = Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis polychloros)
Pfauenauge = Peacock (Inachis io)
Kohlweißling = Large White (Pieris brassicae)
Zitronenfalter = Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni)
Distelfalter = Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)

These are the ones I know for sure. But I have no idea about the rest...

Kirsten