Butterfly shot hand-held with 15mm macro extension tube on 70mm lens with my canon 550d (T2i). By the river.

This was taken on my iphone while out walking at the weekend. It turned out better than I could have possibly imagined, so I thought I'd share it on here! :)

wallpaper in my grandma's house...i love it...lol

Peacock butterfly, the most prettiest insect :)

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For an awesome hitrecorder and lady. Mwahhhh! <3

From a painting I did...just multiplied the little guys and messed with colors to create a swarm of lovely monarchs. I thought it could be used in the creation myth illustrations somehow

Taken at the American Museum of Natural History, 3/11/2011. Digital. I was playing with settings and I was rather pleased with the end result.

Would love to see what people can do with it!

I took my children to the butterfly farm near where we live today. So incredible! We've been lots of times before but today was the first time I managed to see a butterfly ACTUALLY EMERGING! 

A portrait for the lovely Bloemday - based on a photo from her pixie days! Hope you like it!! xx

The greatness of the small things...

HEY GUYS HEY GUYS HEY GUYS 

Summer is baaaack !

Taken with René (Pentax K1000), St Guilhem le Désert, France, summer 2010

A vector image (well now just a .jpeg image) that I made from a picture of a butterfly kite I saw today.

Inspired by a beautiful story about love birth, I create an image of Aphrodite bleeding... a blood drop that caused the whole story )

I forgot that I took this picture. It was one of my first shots that I took after switching from the D80 to T2i.

I realized I messed up when I finished drawing the butterfly, because I love drawing butterflies and that´s where I started to read (re-read) later that the teacher was syppoused to be another insect and the butterfly another student. Anyway, I may give it another shot tomorrow. Also I´m not sure my interpretation of pillar is correct, i searched to be sure...

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same butterfly that chilled on my shirt which later crawled up and chilled on my shoulder

this butterfly first went onto my pant leg then crawled up onto my shirt and chilled there for a bit

a butterfly on my sister's foot

I did this painting to represent doors opening and closing. It was an idea I had a couple of years ago. The title was inspired by a line in the Moby song "Why does my heart feel so bad".... It fits because with death or change, often comes great sadness. But doors do open again, and life does carry on.

I painted her in black and white to represent the life gone, a closed door, with the wind blowing as the the butterfly flies away. And the butterfly itself represents life going on, pain leaving, new beginnings, opening doors.

It's a very personal piece, so I hope you can relate to it, and I hope you like it. xx

  Torn is an semi-abstract take on a new hevn. Instead of creating a literal translation of the piece, I focused on the emotional aspect of it. Specifically the strife and turmoil that comes out during the quarrel between hevn and urth: from lines:

butterfly

c:

The little butterfly learnt that it can only live for one day and it found a way to be immortal 

Taken at Chelsea Mansion on LI

When I went out to walk my dog, I saw a butterfly fluttering around the front of the house. Since it was still there when I got back from the walk, I took a few pictures of it. :)

I wanted to shout "I love you" at the top of my lungs, but the butterflies got in the way.

This is the first frame of a 500 frame animation of this Butterfly Flapping it's wings...

It's all rendering right now...

In memory of the little flutterfly that was hit by my car :'[

I was walking up Jackson Street when I saw two butterflies fluttering around and just had to wait for one to settle down on a flower :)

Things happen

I have an 11/11/11 11:11 magic butterfly. 

I didn’t know it was a magic butterfly at first, I just thought it was a nice little origami thing included in the package wirrow sent me. Stella enjoyed looking at it for the bright colors and that was that.

Then tonight shortly before 11:11 PM on 11/11/11 I was browsing hitRECord as Seth and Stella snoozed on the couch next to me. As most of you have been experiencing, the Activity Dashboard is only showing a fraction of the RECommends and REmarks on RECords so I haven’t even really been looking at it. But I happened to click it and one of the REmarks that made it through (this is already 11/11/11 magic since THIS particular remark was one of the few to show up) was from wirrow about my RECord of Stella opening her gift from him. He apologized for my “mum’s butterfly” being squished. o_O

I hadn’t realized it even WAS a butterfly, let alone for my mom. I know I posted it on tumblr and I don’t know if wirrow saw that post or if this was a total coincidence but butterflies were special to my mom and she always thought they were a way relatives and friends who had passed on communicated with us. She has already used them several times to let me know she’s near. And aside from just being a butterfly —- it’s her two favorite colors of yellow and orange. Magic. 

I made a few wishes at 11/11/11 11:11 AM. One was for my mom to be able to be with me and meet Stella, even though I know it couldn’t come true. But it came as close to true as possible. Right before 11/11/11 11:11 PM I got this STRONG sign that she was there. I realized I had a magic butterfly. 

Thanks mom. (and wirrow:)

You called me butterfly chest because of my fluttering heart beat

Pencil on Paper, 2011 Amanda Chung

2011 - 2012. It is not completely symmetrical due to the fact I did this piece my hand and used a ruler rarely. I used a felt tip pen on paper in one of my journals.

Veteran's Park - Hamilton, NJ 

This is what happens when i can't sleep ;)

Taken from observational drawings of butterflies and moths for an old college project. I hope they might be of some use to you :)

Snapshot in Aigina island in Greece in a monastery

Butterfly - tiny story

The man who could not tolerate catapillars never saw a butterfly.

By Brianaaleigh

This is one of my summer shots. I couldn't put them here coz my flash drive wasn't with me. And now,when autumn is here I show you those shots)))

another random doodle

her heart was a butterfly

fluttering

flittering

escaping nets

flying away

This is from a series I did based on women eating various objects to make them feel various stages of love. This one reflects Lust, as she eats butterflies she feels flutters in her stomach for someone. 

Materials: Stone life casts, lace, paint, butterflies, wood panel with lace. 

ink and watercolour

From the Notebaert Nature Museum

Unedited footage of a huge butterfly fluttering around at the Notebaert Nature Museum. Thought it could be useful.

Yeah, so I'm 15.  Now, 14 when I did this.  I think it's beautiful enough.

An illustration for Independence, based on my idea that the caterpillar experiences the greatest form of independence. The caterpillar is stuck to the ground, the trees, the plants...when it transforms and emerges from its coccoon it is free to go wherever it wants.

Watercolour, ink and Photoshop CS4

I hope Soupy and chelsalea like this remix I did!  :-)  Thanks!

If you like this piece check out the similar, but different Madame Butterfly Geisha here:

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Illustration doohickey that was for a class but never got finished.

I'd really love to paint this. Open invitation for all to do the same :) [in their own cool way of course] 

Taken at the Vancouver Aquarium.

after a loooong pause... :)

Taken on Friday near my dorm. There were a bunch of them there and they didn't seem to mind me getting up close to them so I snapped as many pictures as I could. 

Another one of the photos I took Friday.

Took a picture of a dead butterfly at a museum in Texas.

I rendered 500 frames for the flapping so it looks like it is flapping in slow motion, which can be sped up to look like it's flapping at it's normal rate.

MOV with transparent background

1280 x 720 - 25fps - 200MB

Enjoy

Taken in Oct 2009 by Sarah Clinch.

Another attempt at mastering the pen tool in Photoshop CS3, I'll nail it yet!! >:D

of the stomach variety.

Also worked on an animation to this but its not really working yet =)
but maybe this can be useful for someone 

"I'm waiting for you to change."

Stipple style colored Ink Drawing - using tiny Butterflies.

Nephew's bedroom mural made a road in a mirror, half as much to paint.

Trying to capture a butterfly with my Canon 60D and a 50mm 1.4 lens for shallow depth of field - not such a good idea with something that moves so fast.

Feel free to cut and layer and edit to your hearts content. :)

this is an old piture. it's from the time when i used my full name and wrong years.

One of the butterflies I'm making for a friend's party  :)