In Flight

11Mar06

The invasion continues.

Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes)

Giant Swallowtail
1/200″, F/4, ISO 200

Giant Swallowtail
1/250″, F/4, ISO 200

Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor)

Pipevine Swallowtail
1/500″, F/1.8, ISO 200

These critters did not want to sit still for me, and achieving desired focus was quite difficult. The shot at bottom is particularly off (and wow is that 50mm prime soft that wide open), but I like the motion quality it yielded, regardless.

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6 Responses to “In Flight”  

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  1. 1 Wolf on Mar 11th, 2006 said:

    Butterflys are so beautiful, great photos!

  2. 2 sunil on Mar 12th, 2006 said:

    Well they (butterflys) are in flight, they are the best pilots of themselves, they have a sound knowledge that how to fly over the flowers gently, they know how to take abstracts from the flower to collect their food when they fills hungry, though they are in flight, but they are really innocent, harmless spacies of this beautiful earth, they have brought some decent colors in the nature, the whole nature’s beauty collected in their colors very differently.

    Butterflys are the “crowns” of flowers, infact flowers itself are beautiful, but seating butterfly over that flower looks a very plesant show to our eyes.

    sunil

  3. 3 Solar Flare on Mar 12th, 2006 said:

    The Pipevine’s colors are so beautiful…great shots. Photographing butterflies gives one good exercise!

  4. 4 Reacher on Mar 16th, 2006 said:

    Damn shame, the bottom one looked like it had some cool patterns, but the motion does look good regardless.

    Nice pics.

  5. 5 Wolverine on Mar 16th, 2006 said:

    Thanks. :)

    This will get easier (and yield much better results) once I add a couple of lenses.

  6. 6 beepbeepitsme on Mar 21st, 2006 said:

    What pretty little flutterbyes :)

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