The year was 2016.
The hot summer of that year.
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I was walking up and down the place called Vizula. A small peninsula in the bay of Medulin, my hometown.
The small compact camera that I was carrying with me back then was pretty bad. Barely functional.
The quality of the camera is definitively visible in these muddled, grainy photographs I'm presenting here today.
The equipment wasn't great, but the morning light was beautiful and I saw plenty of butterflies along the way. No picture can look too bad if it involves butterflies.
In this first series of photographs, you can see the Papilio machaon, commonly known as the common yellow swallowtail.
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The butterfly was flying among the thistles, visiting flower after flower.
A diurnal moth was also feeding on these relatively big, juicy flowers. This is the hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum).
A bit further I came across this cabbage white (Pieris rapae), and then ...
... I saw another butterfly on the thistle.
This is the Lasiommata megera ...
... commonly known as the wall brown.
While passing through a pine grove I saw another swallowtail.
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This Papilio machaon was resting high on the tree.
The next encounter was on the thistle again.
This is the Boloria dia ...
... commonly known as the weaver's fritillary.
After photographing this species ...
... I passed by two southern white admirals (Limenitis reducta).
This is the last species I photographed on that occasion.
The Argynnis paphia. Commonly known as the silver-washed fritillary.
AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK - THE END.
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Great photos @borjan.
🦋🦋🙂thanks 🦋🦋
Gorgeous @borjan 🤗
Wow! That was a lot of butterflies for one day. Some day I will get a better camera, but probably not until this one dies.
Great shots, man.
I've noticed that many of your posts are about photos you took years ago. What did you use to do with this photos back then after taking and editing them?
I didn't do anything special with them. Just a bit of contrast in Photoshop. Sometimes a bit of "burn highlights" in small overexposed areas.
Hmm. And after all the editing you just left them on your gadgets? Or were you posting them somewhere else?
They were edited on the computer, remained on the computer, uploaded yesterday on Hive from the computer, and are still there - on the computer.
Hmm. I'm asking because I'm wondering whether all those years you were just taking pictures, editing them and leaving them in your laptop without doing anything with them whatsoever and not even posting them on any platform or anything.
Yes.😃Exactly that. I took pictures only because is plenty of fun doing that. Now, some years later, those pictures get turned into valuable crypto through blogging. Never could have predicted that 😃 You never know what the next year brings in this crazy, dynamic century.
Damn, bro! 😃😅
You're such a lucky fellow. You did your hobby for years and years and now all of a sudden you can earn crypto for all those years of stacking these fun photos from your hobby. Fuck! I can't even imagine how sweet that must be. And I've seen how much crypto you make for these photos. Really crazy, goddamn!
Very nice pictures you captured, just right.
very beautiful butterfly, I have been targeting butterflies for my portrait, but for me it is very difficult because not all butterflies are tame
Beautiful combination of butterfly tones and angles 😍, Nice Shoot bro @borjan
Great!
Amazing. Very beautiful butterfly photography, very impressed with all the photography you share.
Remarkable. I always feel comfortable when I see your photography
Lovely pictures as always to share it's really beautiful
Amazing photography. Those are looking so beautiful. The photographs you share are always interesting and informative.
Woow amzing pictures !!! My favorite was the argynnis
wow the butterfly shot in your third photo is amazing, she looks very beautiful, the color is very good and I saw she seemed to be sucking the honey essence on the flower, I myself was very difficult to get a good photo of the butterfly