Finally captured in pixels.

For the past few days, I’ve been watching butterflies come and go in the Mexican Bird of Paradise bushes outside my office window. Today, I decided I needed to capture them with my camera.

Digital cameras are incredible things. You can take 3 dozen photos of the same basic scene and at least one of them just has to be good.

This shot was taken with a Nikon DSLR with a 70-210 zoom lens. The tricky part was focusing — the darn butterflies wouldn’t stay still and there’s just enough breeze outside to move the flowers around. But with a quick shutter speed, several of the shots came out pretty good. I think this might be the best.

Photo Info:
Camera: Nikon D80
Shutter Speed: 1/800th
Aperture: f5.6
Focal Length: 210mm
ISO: 200