[hotspur (Chris)]

I have been doing a couple of test shots when I can with my 50D and 17-55 F 2.8 in the garden over the last couple of days.

This morning I saw this lovely 'Yellow migrant' butterfly (Castopia gorgophone),in summer these are very fast flyers but this morning it was cool and damp,he was'nt warmed up,and I had to take advantage as the sun was also shining on a good angle.I took these quick photos and have done some cropping,and thought I would post for bimbo critique,while I did'nt buy this lens for macro,I thought I'd test it out on this beautiful butterfly.speed 2000,iso 250,f 5.6

Also a few of our garden,the two roses,one is at F3.5 and had a circular polarizer on.It came with lens ,as a extra so thought I'd try it out.The last photo-just a general garden view-not the best quality-I had to put image through shrinker twice it was a 10 mp image in jpeg.

Ok,thanks for looking,and look forward to some feed back on these images with the new kit.

cheers Chris