Scout Mountain Butterfly, Take II
Yay! It loaded this time! This morning, blogger's picture-loader would sit and sit and sit...and usually return a blank, useless, screen. Anyway, this is the promised butterfly from Scout Mountain. It's definitely a sulphur of some sort, and looks a lot like this picture of a female orange sulphur. Despite the name, the pictured female is clearly green, while the male is yellow. *shrugs* Even weirder, the picture is described as being of the "white" form. So...I don't get it.
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4 comments:
That's a copasetic picture. You must have a fairly decent camera; mine (er, my 'rents') loses quality close up like that.
*morphs into Napoleonic voice*
Lucky!
The trick with any (autofocus) camera is to figure out how far back you need to stand to make it focus on what you want. With my old camera, I would have needed to be less than 12 inches away to get that much detail. With my new one, I needed to be at least five or six FEET away. :^) Which is much less likely to scare off the butterfly.
I have struggled with our camera. Sometimes it takes great pictures, other times they are grainy and terrible.
That picture is beautiful. As I read your comments I started thinking it was yellow instead of green and a trick of the lighting. I have never seen a female before, though I have seen the males plenty. Odd.
A big part of the reason I take so many flower pictures is that those are the first things I figured out how to make look good with my older camera. Birds rarely turned out as more than a blurry speck. Butterflies? If I was lucky, they showed up. Flowers, though, didn't care how close I got to them. *shrugs* Now that I have a real optical zoom, I can get good pictures of other stuff, too.
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