Comments on: The Butterflies are Back

By: mon@rch

mon@rch — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:45:57 +0000

You know I just love when you are photographing butterflies! Also, that ibis is such an amazing photo even though it isn’t a butterfly!

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:29:38 +0000

Van - desktop away... I'll have to bring little Van out the next time we look for them, so that he can attract them for pictures...

Michael - sorry about that, must have forgotten or missed it. my standard lens is my Nikon 80-400VR f/4.5-6.3 on my D200. 90% of what I shoot comes out of there. For macro shots, I do use my wife's 105mm (sweet, sweet, SWEET lens) or my older 70-300mm Sigma zoom-macro. The quality isn't as nice as the 105mm by a long shot, but it does have the trade-off of being able to be a little further away (less spooking of the subject).

As for the greenheads (officially, the salt marsh greenhead fly - Tabanus nigrovittatus), they're a little smaller than the horseflies I'm used to, but they swarm. Think of the bastard spawn of a horsefly and a blackfly, and that's about it. Here's a picture of one, if you want to see these annoying little buggers.

Thanks to you both for the compliments. It was fun day out there.

By: Apertome

Apertome — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:03:57 +0000

Man. Those are some fantastic shots. The Glossy Ibis is fascinating, and I just love the dragonfly and the butterflies. I don’t think you ever answered my question about what lens you use for the bugs. I think the one I was asking about is actually Shari’s macro? That’s the impression I got. Anyway, what is it?

I had to look up what greenheads are. I don’t think we get them here, but they seem to be related to horse flies, which we do get. I hate those things …

By: furiousball

furiousball — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:07:46 +0000

That dragonfly is my new desktop. My son will love it, he has this uncanny knack for getting dragonflies to land on him.