Purple Emperor (Apatura iris)
These big butterflies are quite rare in The Netherlands. They spend almost all of their time high up in trees, but sometimes they come down to look for minerals on the ground:
Olympus XZ-1, 112mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/80s
Somehow, they avoid greenery as a background, but I suppose they are pretty enough even against other backgrounds:
Olympus XZ-1, 112mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/80s
The only way to get a photo of these is to climb a tree, or wait for one to come down. Not one for hasty photographers.