Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

June 30, 2012 by Pat Bean

Butterflies

“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” — Henri Carier-Bresson

One has only fleeting seconds to capture the image of a butterfly before it is off to the next flower. — Photo by Pat Bean

“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” — Unknown

Posted in Nature, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged butterrflies, fleeting, pat bean, postaday, weeklyphotochallenge | 11 Comments

11 Responses

on June 30, 2012 at 2:31 pm | Reply cravesadventure

Beautiful:)
- on June 30, 2012 at 3:26 pm | Reply Pat Bean
  
  Thanks
on June 30, 2012 at 9:10 pm | Reply redjim99

Greta pictures and as always, great quotes.

Jim
- on June 30, 2012 at 9:11 pm | Reply redjim99
  
  Greta? Great of course. I never yet managed to capture a Butterfly in pictures. I tried as well to get pictures of a Humming Moth that visits our garden, never yet. Oh well.
  
  Jim
  - on July 2, 2012 at 3:20 pm Pat Bean
    
    Keep trying. You’ll get that picture yet. Thanks, meanwhile, for the kind words.
on July 1, 2012 at 1:29 am | Reply Robin

These are beautiful, Pat. 🙂
on July 1, 2012 at 5:42 pm | Reply Joni

Amazing. The only time I was able to take a pic of a butterfly was when I was inside a Butterfly Center filled with thousands of them…LOL
Take care,
Joni
- on July 2, 2012 at 1:58 pm | Reply Pat Bean
  
  I chased around a backyard for about an hour to capture these two photogrpahs. The butterflies were certainly “fleeting.” Thanks Joni.
on July 3, 2012 at 10:04 am | Reply island traveler

Beautiful butterflies captured during their magical, fleeting moment. Isn’t it great that we have cameras now that capture wonderful moments in life? Thanks for sharing…have a blessed day!
- on July 3, 2012 at 11:57 pm | Reply Pat Bean
  
  Thanks Island Traveler. Smart cameras — and the web to share the pictures. Life’s pretty good.
on July 6, 2012 at 3:51 pm | Reply internetreviewofbooks

Lovely!