Butterfly Festival

I finally took the time to properly photograph the butterflies at the Powell Gardens Butterfly Festival this year. While I do not have a digital SLR yet, I have learned that using the iPhone 6 with my headphones as a remote shutter, and being patient and getting the phone within a couple of inches, as well as snapping dozens of photos of each subject, will yield at least one or two good photos.

Blue Morpho

I love the Butterfly Festival at Powell Gardens, and my favorite is the Blue Morpho. I remember the first time I saw them in the Jungle outside of Panama City, in the old Canal Zone. The Panamanians had slash & burned the rest of their jungle, so places in the U.S. controlled area were the last vestige of old growth jungle. When this butterfly is in flight, it alternates from it's dull brown underside to its bright blue topside, so you see the iridescent blue in wingstroke flashes. It's hypnotic.

Fear My Antennae!

This moth reminds me of that woman in The Hunger Games from the Capitol with the crazy hair

From the Underside

I love these huge veiny leaves.