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Plain Tiger in Flight*

A few weeks ago, I had tried photographing butterflies in flight but I was not successful in getting focused images.

 

When I arrived at the Community Garden in Singapore Chinese Garden at noon today, I saw several different species of butterflies flying around under the hot afternoon sun. I was determined to capture successfully at least one of them in flight. I set the shutter speed of my camera at 1/1250 second. I pointed the camera here and there, there and here and here and there and shot continuously for nearly half an hour, until I thought I had a few good shots.

 

Back home, I looked at a few dozens of the images on the screen of my computer. The one posted here is the better of them all. Most of the other pictures are again not clear. I have yet to figure out an effective way of taking pictures of flying butterflies.

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Uploaded on August 7, 2016
Taken on August 6, 2016