Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: flower

Flowers in Nam General Kutlvasra, Picture 12, Prag…

15 Aug 2010 334
And this was another butterfly with the same colors as in Picture 11 in flight. I don't know if it's the same one as I don't remember.

Flowers in Namesti General Kutlvasra, Picture 11,…

15 Aug 2010 328
This was another butterfly.

Flowers in Namesti General Kutlvasra, Picture 9, P…

15 Aug 2010 267
This was after the black butterfly turned. Note that the other butterfly and the bee are still there.

Flowers in Namesti General Kutlvasra, Picture 8, E…

15 Aug 2010 317
This butterfly stood out for its black color, but the black color also hid detail. I didn't have a proper telephoto lens anyway, so I'm not sure how much it mattered. If you look carefully, you can see another butterfly off to the lower right, and an airborne bee below the black butterfly.

Flowers in Namesti General Kutlvasra, Picture 6, P…

15 Aug 2010 301
This was the same butterfly a few seconds later.

Flowers in Namesti General Kutlvasra, Picture 5, P…

15 Aug 2010 287
I spent a lot of time photographing this group of flowers (does anybody know what they are?), because they were the easiest to get shots of bees and butterflies on. They move around a lot, so they can be a challenge, but I caught this butterfly in mid-flight. I don't know the species, but maybe someone more expert does.

Flowers in Namesti General Kutlvasra, Picture 2, E…

15 Aug 2010 281
I'm someone who knows virtually nothing about flowers, but when I noticed Namesti General Kutlvasra next to the radnice for Praha 4, I walked over to experiment doing closeups of the flowers, bees, and butterflies. I've edited this shot for higher contrast and saturation, although not too aggressively.

Flowers, Cercany, Bohemia(CZ), 2007

27 Dec 2007 317
I spotted these in a garden in Cercany, Bohemia. The red ones are obviously tulips (right?), but I know almost nothing about flowers so I don't know what the yellow ones are. Does anybody know? Thanks.

Bees On Magnolia, Picture 2, Prague, CZ, 2007

02 Dec 2007 450
Okay, here you can see the bees better. This was only the second black and white (after Picture 1 of this) that I took with my Nikon N80, and luckily it came out decent, I think. I'm going to try more of these next summer, if possible, as it occurred to me recently that....well....I like bees. :-) These ones are honeybees, but I don't know if they're domestic or wild. Supposedly all the ones in America are domestic, but I know very little about bees in the rest of the world.

Bees? On Magnolia, Sidliste Haje, Prague, CZ, 2007

02 Dec 2007 334
I may very well be making a blunder about the type of tree, so definitely correct me if I'm wrong. Even more annoying, I can't find the bees, but I know that that's why I took this.