As the butterfly season comes to an end here in Ireland for another year I’ve taken some time over the past few days to sort and process my best Irish butterfly pictures and compile them into a Flickr Set. In the long term I’m planning on getting photographs of all 28 species of butterfly that exist in Ireland, but that will take quite some time and quite a bit of travelling. This collection represents my best shots from this year and last, though the vast majority are from this year. My aim is to have at least two shots of each species, a top view of the open wings, and a side view of the closed wings. The differences between these two views can be very dramatic.

[tags]photography, Ireland, butterfly[/tags]