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Whenever I'm in the mood to photograph butterflies, I try to seek out large clusters of small deep-throated flowers. They seem designed just for the mouths of butterflies and during the right season, it can make for some great photos. Typically, I setup near these flowers with all my readings made in advance and hope for something like this beautiful Clipper butterfly of the Philippines to land in front of me.
Clipper Butterfly
from the beautiful and tropical Wailea, Maui
Sunset Clouds
My friend and master gardener was showing me the sites and we came across her favorite of all trees, the chionanthus virginicus, or fringe tree. In late spring it blooms with drooping clusters of white flowers. I now understand her passion for the tree as is had a very soft friendly appearance with a lovely scent from it's quantity of blooms.
Fringe Tree in Bloom
layers and layers of spire-shaped mountains in ZhangJiaJie
Mount TianZi 2
northern Arizona (Utah border)
Lake Powell
mysterious mounds of rock peaking through the surface of a mineral water pond in JiuZhaiGou
Pond Mounds
coming down off the mountain just in time to witness the sun setting and the nearby cloud-line lighting up in pink.
Elevated Evening
Having such a small body and graciously long wings, the Tiger Longwing doesn't flap quickly like most butterflies. Instead, it creates a very elegant slow-flutter to navigate through the rain-forest foliage in Brazil. It's motion is very different from what i'm accustomed to in the northern hemisphere, and i found it quite mesmerizing.
Tiger Longwing
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