photoartflightCommon Buckeye Butterfly From Brigantine
I am going through images to post and found this image of a Common Buckeye Butterfly. This was from a trip to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Brigantine Division in Galloway, New Jersey. We were traveling light and I was using a Canon 300mm lens with a 1.4X Canon Teleconverter on a Canon 1D mkIV. The Canon 300mm f/4 lens has fairly close focusing especially with the 1.4X Teleconverter. But to get even closer I used a Canon 25mm extension tube behind the teleconverter. Image taken @ f/11, 1/400 sec, ISO 400.
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Wonderful result, top shot !
Thanks so much! They are fun photo subjects!
Very interesting technique, lovely photo!
Thanks! They are fun to photograph!
Lovely creature! I hope I get to see one in person some day, but they seldom are seen this far north.
Thanks Eliza! Hope you do see one and get a chance to photograph one!
Wonderful!
Thanks Belinda! They are fun to photograph!
Pretty!!
Thanks so much Donna!
The only buckeyes I have seen were on Saturday afternoons. This is a beauty of a butterfly and well captured, Reed!
Thanks so much Steve! Hope your photo trip is going well!