Paolo Henrique Rodrigues

Paolo Henrique Rodrigues tells about himself:

I'm a school teacher in Portugal . I teach children from 6 to 9 years old.

I'm 46 years old. I'm married with a school teacher too. I leave in Castelo Branco , Portugal around 251Km from Lisbon , the capital of my country. I’m a fan of digital photography.

I photograph since 1999 as a hobby. I started taking Nature's pictures with a Sony Digital Mavica FD71.

Later, in December 21, 2001 , I bought a new digital camera a FujiFilm FinePix 6900 Zoom that I have till today. My camera has 3 mega pixel CCD and 6 times of optical zoom.

I am a member of an ONG called TAGIS-Centro de Conservção das Borboletas de Portugal ( Center of Butterflies Conservation in Portugal ), in Lisbon , at Natural History Museum ( Museum of Bocage ) (www.tagis.net).

I enjoy taking photos of butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies. I have 11 hard disks with lots of digital photographs.

Usually, I take my photos in a small village called Almaceda, near Castelo Branco, at weekends and in summer holydays.

In Portugal it exist about 2200 species of moths and butterflies. I have almost 50 species of butterflies photographed and 50 species of moths photographed.

Here is a little selection of Paolo's butterfly photos:
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	Glaucopsyche melanops (Boisduval, 1828) Black-Eyed Blue Portugal
Lycaena alciphron gordius (Sulzer, 1776) Purple-Shot Copper (southern subgenus) Portugal
	Lycaena phlaeas (Linnaeus, 1761) Small Copper Portugal
Polyommatus icarus (Rottemburg, 1775) Common Blue Portugal
	Erynnis tages (Linnaeus, 1758) Dingy Skipper Portugal
Spialia sertorius (Hoffmannsegg, 1804) Red Underwing Skipper Portugal
	Thymelicus sylvestris (Poda, 1761) Small Skipper Portugal