Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: flowers

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.

This was another butterfly.

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

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.

This was the same butterfly a few seconds later.

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.

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.

Here's a closer shot of the flowerbed that came out better than most that I attempt with the camera phone. Does anybody know what type of flowers these are?

This is a bed of flowers near the Horcickova bus stop in Haje, that was mowed down (literally) a few days after I took this, but then allowed to regrow. I quite like it, but I expect that the yuppies complained about it, causing it to be wrecked, and then the normal Czechs, who seem to love flowers, complained again, allowing them to grow back. I think this looks nicer than a mud pit, a parking lot, or chemically-treated grass 15mm tall, don't you?

These were the wedding flowers, so I obviously had to take a few pictures of them. I settled on this shot.

See if you can spot the bee without using the notes? :-)

I'm fairly sure that I took these shots in October, or possibly November, of 2007, so some of the flowers hadn't wilted yet. Nadrazi Dejvice, like a number of smaller Czech railway stations, has a number of flower boxes on it, and I realised that this might make a nice composition.

Dandelions are very common in Central New York, where I'm from, but they're common in Bohemia, too. You wouldn't think it, but this was taken in Prague, in the gardens in Strahov. Prague is actually quite green in places, as I think I've illustrated in some of my other photos. Look carefully, and I think you can spot a bee or two among these flowers.

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.

I don't remember whether I shot this at the end of the hike, or in the car on the way back to Nova Pec. In any case, I really like this one.

I shot this on the road to Lipno, I think, which was to be the first stop on a trip that I took back in the Spring to Sumava with some of my friends. I really like the colors in this shot, although I don't know if those flowers were dandelions, buttercups, or something else. Sumava has several species of flower that are this shade of yellow.