Posted in Butterflies, Insects, Macro Photography, Nature, Photography, Portraits, tagged Alexandria VA, Anatrytone logan, Canon 50D, Delaware Skipper, Huntley Meadows Park, orange butterfly, Tamron 180mm macro lens, tiny butterfly on September 17, 2013| 3 Comments »
I always seem to have real problems making positive identification of the smaller, nondescript butterflies, like this little orange skipper butterfly that I photographed recently at my local marshland park.
If I had to go out on a limb, I’d hazard a guess that this is a Delaware Skipper (Anatrytone logan), although with more than 3500 recognized species of skippers, the odds are not in my favor.
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Posted in Bugs, Flowers, Gardening, Insects, Macro Photography, Nature, Photography, tagged butterfly, canon 18-55mm lens, Canon Rebel XT, clover, flowers, macro photography, nature, photography, tiny butterfly on July 23, 2012| 6 Comments »
It’s pretty cool to photograph big, gaudy butterflies but today I photographed the smallest butterfly I’ve ever seen. I was shooting photos with my mentor Cindy D. and her husband when Cindy spotted this little guy. He seemed too small to make a good photo and they needed to leave.
Undeterred I lay on my stomach and got as close as my lens would permit me (I did not have time to switch to my macro lens and had to make do with the 18-55mm kit lens that happened to be on the camera). To give you an idea of his size, note that he is perched on a single clover flower.
I’m pretty happy with the result and hope eventually to figure out what kind of butterfly he is. For now, though, I am content to have gotten this shot.
Tiny butterfly on a clover flower
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