Garden Visitor

[PA Democrat]

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Breathtakingly beautiful!

[Ohiogal]

2. Wow!

What a stunning photo! Such bright vibrant colors. Isn’t nature amazing?

Well done!

[PA Democrat]

6. Thanks!

Nature and the outdoors is my happy place. Stick me outdoors with a camera and I can lose all track of time.

[Soph0571]

3. How vibrant!!

Stunning

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Wow, what a great catch! Wonderful colors and composition! n/t

[PA Democrat]

5. I confess it took a few dozen tries

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.

[japple]

7. Magnificent! This is a gorgeous photo. Congratulations on capturing it and

many thanks for sharing here on DU.

[Habibi]

8. Absolutely gorgeous!

[Butterflylady]

9. I'll second that!!!!!!

[Karadeniz]

10. Maybe I'll come back as a flutterby...in your garden!

[hibbing]

11. Here's one of mine this morning

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

[democrank]

12. Beautiful!

Thank you

[gademocrat7]

13. Absolutely beautiful!

[mnhtnbb]

14. Lovely!

[Mosby]

15. Wow!

[hibbing]

16. Another tonight

[gristy]

17. Wow!

First word out of my mouth. Just breathtaking.

Could you tell us your setup (tripod?), camera, lens, settings, etc?

[PA Democrat]

18. I used a Nikon Coolpix S9900 that I've had for a couple of years.

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.