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Visited the Stan Hywet butterfly house today where I found the most relaxed butterflies I've yet to see. I was able to take off the telephoto and shoot with the 60 macro; they didn't care if you stood right on top of them! One landed on my speedlight as I was changing memory cards. It's hard to use your camera to take a picture of itself.
It's a lovely facility, easily the most humidified butterfly house I've yet to visit, and I've been in three this summer. And it's been a HOT summer! When I walked out into the 90-degree heat and direct sun, I felt wonderfully cool. It was an odd sensation.
More posts to come in a day or so. Also some from the garden.
If disney were going to design a butterfly this would be it -- photographed in the Kishi Kishi butterfly garden in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles - male Julia Heliconian butterfly
Speckled wood with a holly blue. Normally the speckled woods are very territorial and won't let another butterfly (or other large insect) anywhere near them
I was happy to capture this small butterfly again :-)
It's one of my very favourite butterfly. I love its blue tone.
EOS 40D & EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
F3.5 | 100.0 mm | 1/1000s | handled
Le Paon-du-jour, Aglais io, est un Insecte Lépidoptère de la famille des Nymphalidae, de la sous-famille des Nymphalinae, de la tribu des Nymphalini, du genre Aglais.
I took two macro pictures today - after doing some research I was amazed to find that I had two pictures of the same species in different parts of its life cycle. The species is the orchard butterfly Papilio aegeus.
Above is the adult butterfly.
Having a connecting flight at Changi airport in Singapore gives a good chance to take some easy pictures of butterflies in the butterfly garden inside the airport.
Top tip - allow your lenses to get warm after the flight before opening them in the 30degree, 90% humidity in the garden.