Butterflies In Winter - Topic

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Mar 28 2011 07:08am

Each year at the Montreal Botanical Garden, they have this live butterfly exhibition in one of the hot houses..
It's so beautiful! You have butterflies fly all over and sometimes land on you!
It's about 30 degrees Celcius in the hothouse and extremely humid.... Wearing pants and t-shirt, you sweat and all you do is walk, stand and take pictures...
But it is - 12 outside, so ofc kids and I we pay the coat check.
And we sweat...
I can't help but laugh at the people who are too cheap to pay the 2$ coat check and walk in the hothouse wearing their warm winter suits :rofl:

It is the 3rd time I go this year (we have a yearly pass) and this time I dusted off my kit lens, even if I don't really like it.
But I felt it more suitable for getting closer to the butterflies, although it's not as fast a lens as my 50 mm, but at least, I can get to 25 cm from the butterflies, intead of 45 cm with the 50 mm lens...
I'll post more pictures after I go steal the 100 macro from someone who just got one and made a topic about it... (not to mention any name

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Anyways, enough with the talking, here are some pictures

RoOkieTeRra

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Mar 28 2011 07:11am

that looks pretty close for a 18-55mm

izParagonzi

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Mar 28 2011 09:00am

Some very nice images taken.
Wondering how humid is humid to make you perspire... and how much ...

AlPi

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Mar 28 2011 03:15pm

Lovely shots Marie, thanks for sharing!

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Mar 28 2011 04:01pm

Very nice, I really like the orange one and the one where the back of its wings are fluttering.

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Mar 28 2011 04:33pm

i really like the close up of the one on the orange half, the striping and quality of the fur is awesome

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Mar 28 2011 07:40pm

Quote (MotherOfTwo @ Mar 28 2011 06:08am)

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Anyways, enough with the talking, here are some pictures

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#4 is so pro.

Marie, how's the horse shooting business going?

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Mar 30 2011 02:08am

really nice shots, i love n#2

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Mar 30 2011 08:26am

Wow Marie these are all really great shots! So colorful, good job!!

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Mar 30 2011 01:47pm

Thank you all for your comments!
I should go back again in 3 weeks and take some more

Quote (RoOkieTeRra @ 28 Mar 2011 09:11)

that looks pretty close for a 18-55mm

Some of them don't have any cropping even!

Quote (onepagememory @ 28 Mar 2011 21:40)

#4 is so pro.

Marie, how's the horse shooting business going?

Nothing so far

But horses all have their winter coat to a certain degree, so I guess people will want to wait for the horses to be nice and shiny in the summer..... I hope...

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