003: Big Butterfly

I didn’t get a butterfly the day before, but I saw one on this day. It was a beautiful big butterfly, but I discovered it’s extremely difficult to get a photo of a butterfly while they’re in flight and rather difficult to get a really nice one while they’re landed.

It’s a nice practice in patience and perseverance trying to get a photo of subjects like these.

• Aperture: ƒ/5.6
• Camera: NIKON D300S
• Taken: 25 January, 2011
• Focal length: 300mm
• ISO: 400
• Location: 33° 48.54′ 0″ S 151° 11.03′ 0″ E
• Shutter speed: 1/400s

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Kristen Symonds, aka kristarella, works as a Happiness Engineer for Automattic. She is a WordPress fanatic with a love for photography, craft, SciFi and Fantasy, board games, and more.Kristen is married to Dave and has two pet rabbits named Monty and Zoë. She is also a Christian and plays flute and guitar. View all posts by kristarella