Action Butterflies

Action Shot

Thank goodness I have Butterfly Bushes in my back yard. They are covered in butterflies daily. In this photo I used Windows Live Photo Gallery and used the histogram to change the exposure and color to bring out the butterfly on the left. I used the sport setting on my daughter's camera as I spent a long time trying to capture these two flying around and just couldn't do it until I changed the settings on the camera! This was a real challenge to capture one of these in flight, and get it next to the other butterfly. What I learned in this assignment was to sit and wait, shift positions and wait, move again and wait. I probably shot 200 photos before I was able to capture this one with a full butterfly in flight. I couldn't edit it much more as it wanted to digitize, however, I would have liked to have gotten closer. . . maybe when I have a couple of more hours to sit and wait.