Royalty Free Photos - Butterflies

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Royalty Free Photographs of Butterflies

Although I am nowhere near being a professional photographer, I have been quite successful in taking photos of butterflies, and on this lens I supply a number of them royalty free to anyone that wishes to use them for illustrative purposes on the internet.

I have decided to offer my butterfly photos for use royalty free because I have had much help from other photographers in the past, who donated photos for me to use on my websites (free photos) and now I am in a position to offer the same help to others.

This lens provides royalty free photographs of butterflies for use on squidoo lenses, blogs, websites etc.

A Few Terms of Use

1. Every butterfly photograph on this lens was taken by myself and I give anyone permission to use them on websites, blogs, squidoo lenses, hubpages and any other online media.

2. Please do not reprint these butterfly photos on products/merchandise intended for sale.

3. Please do not use these butterfly photos for printed material without contacting me first. Just ask, I am almost certain to say yes, particularly for use by teachers and students.

4. Please do not offer these royalty free butterfly images for reuse elsewhere.

Thanks

Is There a Catch?

Well, I wouldn't call it a catch, just a caveat really.

Anyone is free to use any of these butterfly photographs on their website, blog or Squidoo lens but please credit the photo to me and create a link back to me.

Please use one of the following pieces of code to credit and link to me:



<a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/nickupton">Nick Upton<a>


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Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 1

All these butterfly photos were taken at Khao Soi Dao wildlife sanctuary, southeastern Thailand.



Bnded Maquis Banded Maquis Blue King Crow Clipper Clipper Chocolate Tiger Common Five-Ring Common Five-Ring Common Cerulean Cmmon Cruiser ksd_commoncruiser1 Common Glassy Tiger
Just click on the thumbnails for the full size images.

Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 2

All these butterfly photos were taken at Khao Soi Dao wildlife sanctuary, southeastern Thailand.



Common Glassy Tiger Common Lascar Common Grass Yellow Common Pierot Common Pierrot Common Mormon Common Plain Sailor Common Plain Sailor Common Yeoman Dark-banded Bushbrown Dark-banded Bushbrown Dark Blue Tiger

Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 3

All these butterfly photos were taken at Khao Soi Dao wildlife sanctuary, southeastern Thailand.



Great Evening Brown Knight Knight Unidentified Brown Pallid Faun Straight Pierrot ksd_straightpierrot1 Tonkin Prince Unidentified Blue Chocolate Demon Common Bush Brown Dark Glass Blue Unidentified Brown Unidentified Brown

Basic Digital Photography

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Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 4

All these butterfly photos were taken at Khao Yai national park, central Thailand.



Green Dragontail Green Dragontail Common Five-spot Common Pierrot Grey Pansy Magpie Crow Magpie Crow Red Helen Tailed Jay Common Bluebottle Common Bluebottle Anderson's Grass Yellow Studded Sergeant White-banded Hedge Blue Anderson's Grass Yellow Blue Tit Commander Common Castor Common Five-spot Common Posy Larger Harlequin

Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 5

All these butterfly photos were taken at Kaeng Krachan national park, western Thailand.



Orange Gull Common Grass Yellow Chain Swordtail Mormon Chain Swordtail Blue King Crow Common Bluebottle Common Pierrot

Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 6

All these butterfly photos were taken at Beung Boraphet, central Thailand.



Plain Tiger bb_unknownyellow2 Plain Tiger Common Leopard Tawny Coster Common Leopard Common Leopard Plain Tiger Tawny Coster Tawny Coster

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Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 7

All these butterfly photos were taken at Doi Ang Kang, northern Thailand.



Golden Sapphire Common Jester Common Jester White-banded Hedge Blue White-banded Hedge Blue Large Yeoman Hill Jezebel Common Fivering Common Fivering Red Lacewing Common Chestnut Tiger Red Lacewing Red Lacewing Hill Jezebel Unidentified Brown Butterfly

Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 8

All these butterfly photos were taken at Pu Suan Sai national park, north eastern Thailand.



Lemon Emigrant Lime Butterfly Lime Butterfly Unidentified Brown butterfly Common Albatross Common Spotted Flat Common Yamfly

Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 9

Butterflies from Britain

These photos were all taken at Eske, East Yorkshire, UK.

Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 10

Butterflies from Britain

Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 11

Butterflies from Britain

Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 12

Butterflies from Britain

Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 13

Butterflies from Thailand

Royalty Free Photos: Butterfly Gallery 14

All these butterfly photos were taken at Doi Inthanon national park, northern Thailand.



Dark Judy Dark Judy Lesser Grass Blue Lesser Grass Blue Common Punchinello Common Punchinello Lesser Grass Blue Transparent Sixline Blue Paris Peacock Paris Peacock Commo Tailed Judy

My Favourite Butterfly Photo That I Have Taken

This photo of a Green Dragontail was taken at Khao Yai national park, Thailand in November 2009. This is my favourite of the butterfly photos that I have taken.

You can grade this photo yourself below. Don't feel that you have to be polite, I know the limitations of my photography skills!


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Some Butterfly Postage Stamps

I created a few butterfly postage stamps on Zazzle.com using my butterfly photographs. Many more butterfly stamps can be seen here - Butterfly Postage.
Comma Butterfly Postage
Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly Postage
Cabbage White Butterfly Postage

More Royalty Free Butterfly Photos

  1. PDPhoto.org
    A number of good royalty free butterfly photos can be found in this animal gallery.
  2. FreeDigitalPhotos.net
    56 high quality butterfly and moth photos for use royalty free.
  3. GeekPhilosopher.com
    17 more butterfly and moth photos for use royalty free.
  4. ButterflyPhotos.org
    Some high quality butterfly photos for royalty free use on websites.

Attract Butterflies To Your Garden

Attracting Butterflies & Hummingbirds to Your Backyard: Watch Your Garden Come Alive With Beauty on the Wing (Rodale Organic Gardening Books)

Amazon Price: $11.86 (as of 02/14/2012)Buy Now

Butterfly lovers will learn all about how to make their gardens attractive to butterflies (and hummingbirds) with this informative book. When your garden is full of visiting butterflies you will be able to take lots of nice butterfly photos of your own.

Butterfly Conservation

Butterfly ConservationIf you are a UK based butterfly lover you should really think about joining butterfly conservation. This is a really fantastic charity which does a lot to conserve and re-establish butterfly populations throughout the United Kingdom. Not only does butterfly conservation own reserves, it works in partnership with other conservation bodies, the government and private landowners to ensure the success of butterfly colonies.

Butterfly conservation sends its members a very interesting magazine (I always read mine) which talks about success stories, where conservation measures are needed and gives details on various species.

This is a charity well worth supporting if you are a butterfly fan.

Check out the Butterfly Conservation Initiative if you are a North American butterly lover.

Butterfly Identification Guides

Many butterflies are difficult to identify in the field and I have found photographing them and then referring to an identification guide later a good way of putting a name to what I see.

The following are some useful butterfly identification guides.

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Nikon Coolpix 7600

All the photographs here were taken with a simple, compact digital camera; the Nikon Coolpix 7600. I am not a very good photographer really but this camera is easy to use and gives some satisfying results. There are a whole range of features and I usually take a number of shots using variuos settings to see which gives the best results. All the photos here were taken on Macro setting and I experimented with various light settings, although most are taken without flash.
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Nikon Coolpix 7600 7MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom

Amazon Price: $399.95 (as of 02/14/2012)Buy Now

The Nikon Coolpix 7600 is not the newest of cameras but is one that is simple to use and possesses a high quality Leica lens. With an easy-to-use menu full of useful functions this camera is able to take good photos in a variety of situations and its user-friendly menus make it easy to learn how to get the best out of this camera.

Royalty Free Images

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Acknowledgements

A special thank you to Kab for answering my question on Squidu about how to display html code on a Squidoo lens.

The answer was found on the following lens.

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Butterfly Migration 

The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies

Amazon Price: $11.50 (as of 02/14/2012)Buy Now

A fantastic documentary about the amazing life cycle and migration of the butterflies.

More Royalty Free Photos Of Insects 

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Life In The Undergrowth 

Life in the Undergrowth

Amazon Price: $25.43 (as of 02/14/2012)Buy Now

This fantastic documentary series from David Attenborough and the BBC is full of wonderful footage of insects and other creepy crawlies.