This weekend I tried to do something a little different with my camera. I pulled out my Canon Macro Lens (EF 100mm f/2.8). I haven’t used this lens in quite a while so I had forgotten that it definitely takes a tripod to be able to get clear photographs with this lens. I spent alot of time on Saturday using this lens without a tripod and every one of them was blurry. This is a nice lens and if you do have a Butterfly garden, or any type garden, taking pictures with this lens is actually quite fun.
I’ve got 4 decent photos using this lens I’d like to share, and it really adds another dimension to photographing Butterflies. For example, take the Skipper Butterfly on the Penta plant below. Looks like just your typical Skipper Butterfly getting some nectar right? Click on the picture to enlarge it. See the Ants crawling around below? I didn’t see them while I was taking this shot, I only saw them afterward.
Skipper On Penta
Next is a Gulf Coast Fritillary egg.
Fritillary Egg
Last but not least I have a couple of macro shots from our Fennel plant and some Eastern Black Swallowtail caterpillars. Within the last two weeks the Eastern Black Swallowtail has been a regular visitor to the garden. I’m not sure how many are out there laying eggs, but we’ve probably got close to 30 caterpillars right now. What I thought was kinda cool about these next two shots is that it really shows how scary these caterpillars may look to potential predators, and it also shows some things that I have never noticed before.
One is how much pollen sticks to these caterpillars and how different they will look in just a couple of days (I’ll post follow up shots tomorrow or the next day so you can see the difference).
Baby Eastern Black Swallowtail
The other interesting thing that I didn’t notice before is…right where my copyright info is normally at (bottom right of the picture). Can you see it (click on the picture to enlarge).
Eastern Black Swallowtail With Bug
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