BajaNomad

Butterfly

Russ - 9-29-2012 at 02:07 PM

We've had tons of the yellow one but I saw this guy and zoomed out my new camera to 1000mmand then cropped it. No other enhancement done.

bacquito - 9-29-2012 at 03:01 PM

Truly pretty.

Jack Swords - 9-29-2012 at 03:34 PM

Beautiful photo Russ. Looks like a Gulf Fritillary, you must have some passion vine nearby.

Russ - 9-29-2012 at 05:46 PM

Is this the vine?

What I thought was cool was how well the shot came out using a hand held 1000mm zoom lens and then blowing it up. It's the Nikon P510 I've been talking about.

woody with a view - 9-29-2012 at 07:22 PM

do you use 12mb resolution?

BajaBlanca - 9-29-2012 at 08:24 PM

beautiful.

Eli - 9-30-2012 at 03:07 AM

Love it!

Russ - 9-30-2012 at 08:01 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by woody with a view
do you use 12mb resolution?


Not sure but it is on the highest possible.

woody with a view - 9-30-2012 at 09:24 AM

12mb on mine.

Pescador - 9-30-2012 at 05:26 PM

It is a Gulf Fritallaries. Check out this site. Came from when we had a big butterfly discussion.

http://bcsbirds.com/

Jack Swords - 9-30-2012 at 08:32 PM

Not a passion vine I'm familiar with Russ. Should be some pretty ugly caterpillars on it for that butterfly. There are about 5 native passionvines in Baja and with your rain probably growing well (or a neighbor has one granada de china, granadilla, rosol de la pasión)

ecomujeres - 10-1-2012 at 10:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Russ
Is this the vine?

What I thought was cool was how well the shot came out using a hand held 1000mm zoom lens and then blowing it up. It's the Nikon P510 I've been talking about.


Russ, that's a Phaseolus filiformis vine (Slim Jim Bean). A passionflower vine around you would look like one of these:

Passiflora palmeri
http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/imagelib/imgdetails.php?img...

or Passiflora arida
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/91023/