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to get this photo. The light this morning was perfect and there were three butterflies flitting around but I wasn't quick enough on most of my shots.
I think it is a moth. I had a beautiful swallotail, but could not get a picture. I have others posted in the gardening forum.
Peace
It was on a fully automatic macro setting. I didn't feel like digging out a tripod and the butterflies were moving all around, so I just shot a bunch of photos handheld. I think I just got incredibly lucky with this shot.
I looked at the image data and it was shot at 1/320 sec, f6.3, 40.9 mm.
I tweaked the exposure a little with Corel PaintShop and cropped the image a little to better center the butterfly, but that's about it.
Here's another photo I took yesterday as well. The flowers (lantana) in the background of this photo attract a lot of butterflies as well as hummingbirds. I keep promising myself to try to get a shot of hummingbird someday but I've never had my camera handy when one shows up.
