butterfly id please...

I know it's not real sharp and the exposure is blown, but it was so pretty and i'd like to know what kind of butterfly it is if anyone knows. seems to have a bit of damage to is left wing.

 

Thanks Gordon....maybe someone will know what it is.

 

Gale, I bet you are right...Dao will know!

This one was just sitting on that flower by the side of the dirt road where Patrick and I took the boys for a drive yesterday. I didn't see him at first until Patrick showed me. I just leaned out the window and snapped him He held still for about 6 frames, but that was the best one. I didn't expose too well on it because I was snapping so fast to get him before he moved. Our butterfly garden doesn't get going until around the middle of August...I can't wait to go!

 

Thanks Vinod. He was at an angle, i think he was maybe 3"across?...hard to say. Thanks for the ID.

 

Thanks Patrick.  

Greg, this was taken w/my CoolPix 8800. I still haven't taken anything w/the D2H yet. Patrick's like that the way I am about my cooking gear! lol He doesn't touch my Kitchen Aid mixer and I don't touch his D2H....although I'm starting to get antsy to try it out!

As to the PS-stuff....not yet. All I am able to use at this point is Nikon Capture. I'm waiting on my new computer so I'll have something fast enough to run all the programs w/o bogging down. But Patrick says I'll be getting a new computer here in the next week or so. Of course, then I'll have to learn PS and I hear that takes time. But once I do I'll try and come back to this and see what I can do w/it.

Thanks!