Posts Tagged ‘butterflies’

Caligo, the Owl Butterfly

Feb 14th, 2011

Midway through my recent Ecuador trip an ant photographer’s nightmare came to pass. My trusty MP-E 1-5x macro, the lens responsible for 95% of my images since 2003, died. The electronics failed with the iris stuck full open, rendering it incapable of providing any depth of field. It became a doorstop, essentially, and there was [...]

Tiger Swallowtail

Jul 28th, 2010

by myrmecos.

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For some reason I don’t normally shoot butterflies. But the swallowtails are so abundant this year they’re getting hard to ignore. Here’s a tiger: photo details: Canon EOS 7D camera Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens ISO 200 f/5.6, 1/320 sec Gradient filter to darken the sky Saturation and color balance tweaked in PS Vignetting added [...]

NOVA follows the Monarch Migration

Jan 25th, 2010

by myrmecos.

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Tomorrow’s NOVA on PBS covers the great orange butterflies on their migration to Mexico: Orange-and-black wings fill the sky as NOVA charts one of nature’s most remarkable phenomena: the epic migration of monarch butterflies across North America. NOVA’s filmmakers followed monarchs on the wing throughout their extraordinary odyssey. To capture a butterfly’s point of view, [...]