I shared a single butterfly yesterday, and I know it’s been a photo-heavy week, but I can’t resist sharing more. The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Butterflies & Blooms exhibit — a permanent structure with net walls and a net ceiling — absolutely teems with a wide variety of butterflies. Some of them are the size of small birds, and just as fast or faster.
Not easy to capture.
Plus, my camera battery died, which is a frustrating moment. I need to get back up batteries. Or at least a back up battery. But I had my little camera, and got a few shots with it as well.
I have no idea of any of the species, so feel free to identify if you do!
I wish I’d gotten some pictures that really gave the sense of the ethereal loveliness of the masses of them flying around, but it was tough to capture.
And now from the little camera:
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I was in the butterfly house at the Chicago Botanic Garden, taking a picture, when this butterfly landed on the hand I was using to hold my lens. I rotated my wrist, slowly.
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