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If diamonds are a girl's best friend, What is mine?
Well, Photography is my best friend, And my Nature's gold of photography, must be a beautiful butterfly.
Nature's noble creature, flying around in all it's beauty. With the beautiful colors, shapes, patterns.
Like drawn in the muse of a mater artist.
24,000 Specimens, but all are different and unique.

Just so you'll know
:bulletpurple:Butterflies range in size from a tiny 1/8 inch to a huge almost 12 inches.
:bulletpurple:Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.
:bulletpurple:Some people say that when the black bands on the Woolybear caterpillar are wide, a cold winter is coming.
:bulletpurple:The top butterfly flight speed is 12 miles per hour. Some moths can fly 25 miles per hour!
:bulletpurple:Butterflies cannot fly if their body temperature is less than 86 degrees.
:bulletpurple:There are about 24,000 species of butterflies.
:bulletpurple:The Brimstone butterfly (Gonepterix rhamni) has the longest lifetime of the adult butterflies: 9-10 months.
:bulletpurple:The females of some moth species lack wings, all they can do to move is crawl.
:bulletpurple:Many butterflies can taste with their feet to find out whether the leaf they sit on is good or not.
:bulletpurple:The most frequently named bugs from the Bible are: Locust: 24, Moth: 11, Grasshopper: 10, Scorpion: 10, Caterpillar: 9, and Bee: 4.
:bulletpurple:Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight. This would be like an adult person lifting two heavy cars full of people.
:bulletpurple:Butterflies and insects have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, called the exoskeleton. This protects the insect and keeps water inside their bodies so they don’t dry out.

Source of all this knowledge


Please, appreciate in Fullview

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Tech stuff:
I was lying on the floor for 10 minutes, with my face in the mud, to take this beauty.
I guess you have to eat shit to appreciate beauty...
I took the picture in a park called "Park Hayarkon" near the Yarkon rive, in Tel-Aviv (Israel).
I used the Nikkor 105mm f2.8 AF Micro lens, with Kenko 3 extention tubes (that allow me to get much closer).
I closed the aperture to F14 so I can get more in focus.
I used the SB800 extarnal flash in -2 under exposure for fill light, cause I wanted the original colors to keep their warmth.
What else.. well, no PS..

I hope you engoy our nature,
It doesn't get any better.
G

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:iconcuzzobuduzzo:
yay! this is awesome! ^_^
:iconrevan-delkaoth:
Hey, this is a pretty nice pic! In fact, come to think of it, you can probably sell it on a microstock photography website like the ones I listed below, under the nature search listing. I have been working on selling my own photos, and have several that were just listed the other day. It is a pretty cool system: companies can cut costs for photos by buying them from microstock sites rather than paying their own photographers, and you get paid every time an individual or company buys your photo(s). The signup for these kinds of accounts is free, and you get a cut of the pay. (the only reason it is free to register with them is because they take a portion of every sale.) Also, when a company buys your photo, they don't get the copyright, so they have to buy it a whole bunch of times, once for every time they use it! The photos never leave the microstock site, and will earn you passive income every time they sell for years to come. :D Exciting? Oh yeah! :) Have fun! (I would recommend bigstock the most, since they currently have a short waiting list for photo approval, and approvals are lightning fast!) Crestock and Shutterstock are tougher to get into since they have a skill level requirement, unlike the others, but will pay you a higher cut of your photo sales.) I would give it a go next time you find yourself with some free time, perhaps you will be a hit if you have more amazing photos like this one! :) Cheers! :) -Delkaoth [link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

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Revan Delkaoth - Life is hard. Never give up.
:iconswatzart:
very pretty!!

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible -JSwift
:iconinmysolitude43:
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For every beauty there is an
eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to
hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

~Ivan Panin
:iconpircano:
wooahh! i love how the macro filter compressed.!!!

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When something you want to lose is there, and you are losing it, it will never be back like it was.
:iconmomocatto:
So beautiful. :heart: And I haven't seen butterfly like this before. :)

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Eyes like a sunrise... :floating:
:iconlensegecko:
Thank you for this spectacular shot! Adding to favorites =)

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My puppy's dad can beat up your puppy's dad...
:iconyoulosethegame:
pretty

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Here's the gallery of a friend. I think you'll like his work. I know I loved it. [link]

A link to the work of another close friend: [link]

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NIKON CORPORATION
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Jun 23, 2005, 7:09:16 PM

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