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I shot this last summer in Bremanger during my trip to Norway. The location is fairly close to the beach where I shot my other photo "Light Blue Night". This is a bit further out to sea, closer to the edge of the mountain to the right.
I took these a few months ago on a tour of the greenhouse at Humboldt State University. I found this in the temperate room.
Taken from a tripod with cable release and the 105mm f/2.8 MF, which is coincidentally the sharpest lens I've ever used. No sharpening was applied to this picture.
Many thanks to Michael Drummond (no thneeds needed) who confirmed the identity of this butterfly for me.
I've only previously photographed butterflies once before 11/9/07 when my friend, Debbie Muga, took me to the Rainbow Butterfly Exhibit at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. That 1st time was back in August 2001 when I was just starting to learn to use manual focus, aperture priority and shutter priority with my then Canon Rebel G EOS (SLR) camera and I had the exposures all wrong on just about every photograph! LOL -- I did much better this time! This butterfly is very hard to photograph as it moves faster than most of them, plus it's not often when it does land, that it spreads its wings wide open like with this one and some others that I was able to get of it, unlike other butterflies which often have their wings fully open or almost so..
I used the 300mm focal length on my Canon 75-300mm lens and always remembering what my friend from Langley, British Columbia, Canada, Detlef Klahm, told me about using in-camera flash to freeze as much of the action with something's that moving -- like flowers and trees blowing in the wind, for example, many of the butterfly photographs I took that day I used the in-camera flash to do just that. From what I've seen so far of my slides, it has again worked and I don't think I would have taken as many good ones as I did, if I hadn't used it!
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