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02-12-2006, 12:38 PM
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| | | Toot toot! Butterfly comp.
Yeah - I know - blowing one's own trumpet and all that.  UK Butterflies - 2006 Photography Competition
2nd place out of about 280 entries!
Toot toot! 
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02-12-2006, 12:44 PM
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| | | Re: Toot toot! Butterfly comp.
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Originally Posted by Oy  | If that common blue had not been in australia you might have won.
Congratulations anyway!!! |
02-12-2006, 12:49 PM
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Originally Posted by speckled wood If that common blue had not been in australia you might have won.
Congratulations anyway!!! | LOL!
I thought of rotating it - but that's how I shot it 
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02-12-2006, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Oy LOL!
I thought of rotating it - but that's how I shot it | Interestingly if you rotate your picture 180% it still looks right, usually if you do this to most similar pictures it looks wrong.
Have looked at the winning pic of the Marsh frits, very nice image but I am not sure that it is as good as yours or number three (the Marbled White pic). |
02-12-2006, 01:55 PM
|  | Active Member | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Highland Region (Scotland)
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You are a marvel with that camera of yours.
Well done. |
02-12-2006, 02:28 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Leicestershire
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good for you Oy, well done. It's a lovely image and unusual being 'upside down'.
Matt Berry who got 3rd place is our very own Rodosranger I believe. So that's 2nd and 3rd place to WAB members, not bad at all.
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02-12-2006, 02:33 PM
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You have it flaunt it toot toot indeed!
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02-12-2006, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by matt_xyz Matt Berry who got 3rd place is our very own Rodosranger I believe.
Matt | That Marbled White pic is incredible, very hard indeed to get them pin sharp at that angle, they usually just don't stay still long enough! |
02-12-2006, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Oy | Oy, that is a well deserved Toot Toot. An excellent image, and also thanks very much for the link to butterflies. Within the butterfly web there is also a link to an American guy who has a beautiful set of images along with photographic guidelines, a very worthwhile view for anyone interested in insect photography. I never cease to be amazed at the standard of the American and Asian photographers who seem to use non SLR cameras or SLR cameras with zoom lenses and close up lenses. The images are really superb and quite different to British images, I suppose we would say they are more pastel shades than ours. I recommend anyone interested in insect photography to have a look. Jon
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02-12-2006, 03:19 PM
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Well done Oy, I also think your shot's as good if not better than the winner. If I'd know about this, I'd have been tempted to enter a few! |
02-12-2006, 03:48 PM
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Oy. Toot tooot toooot... lovely shot, congratulations
jaki
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02-12-2006, 04:05 PM
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Congratulations! What a lovely photo.
Jenny |
02-12-2006, 04:12 PM
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Congrats Oy,
it was bound to happen one day, excellent work |
02-12-2006, 04:26 PM
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Congratulations. Well done
Superb photography
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02-12-2006, 04:46 PM
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Well done Oy. Nice pic. |
02-12-2006, 07:15 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: exmouth devon uk
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Well done Oy and Rodosranger.I think they got the winners back to front.First prize whilst a lovely photo should have been 3rd.Oys and the Marbled White were far the best 2 there.Well in my opinion anyhow
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02-12-2006, 07:26 PM
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Nice one Oy, thought yours was better than the other two. Well done
Roger |
02-12-2006, 08:51 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Leicestershire
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Very well done Dave, its a stunning image and in my opinion is better than the winner. |
02-12-2006, 09:03 PM
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Thanks for the kind words WABers
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02-12-2006, 09:24 PM
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Great stuff Oy, and Rodo! Fab images. Pleased for both of you.
Alan |
03-12-2006, 05:57 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Suffolk
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Congratulations Oy, you deserve it, what a stunning photo |
03-12-2006, 01:44 PM
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Well done and you share the same name as my father and brother too
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