Very pretty!

oh.. so pretty .. i want some,, hahah.. LOL.

wonderful !!

Thanks everybody!
Phen, there's a little place in Milan where they breed these type of creatures, I can give you the address.

Beautiful..

ooo I want one too!!!

Thanks a lot for the favs! I'll grow butterflies for all of you

Excellent, really stunning.

Thank you so much! Glad that you like it!

great! nice shot GL

A really beautiful photograph, GL

Great colors & detail

Where's the mountain?

The photo was taken in the Alpes. There is a small hill in the middle of the mountain range near Portes Du Soleil and often butterflies are spotted there. They are beautiful, very colourful and huge!

I was lucky to see two and I got good photos of both - this is one of them.

Wonderful detail, very sharp!

beautiful

Really great shot, how on earth did you get it to pose for a studio shot...

um,, he was a dead still model,,,

He was dead, lol. You should've said: I paid him tons of pollen for this shot

no high res?

High res would help a lot.

Is it alive? Looks upside down to me.

Yes this butterfly is very much alive. It is on the side of the truck mirror

I keep trying to submit high resolution but it don't seem to work

I've had the same problem before author, make sure that the image you upload doesn't have the same size.

Hrmmm... Is this the Goldie Hawn movie from the 60's? "Butterflies are Free?"

There are some odd bits of brown around the image, I would also crop a little closer to the butterfly.

i cropped it a bit differently and no more bits of color. Thanks friiskiwi!

much better

incredible shot!