Waiting to turn into butterfly...

MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
edited June 3, 2007 in Wildlife
and eating a bit too.

caterpillar.jpg

caterpillar2.jpg

caterpillar3.jpg

Let's hope these hungry baby mockingbirds do not find the caterpillar or should I say momma does not find the caterpillar.

Baby_mockingbird2.jpg
Stephen
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  • Ric GrupeRic Grupe Registered Users Posts: 9,522 Major grins
    edited June 2, 2007
    :lol4He's smiling at you in that first one! thumb.gif
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited June 2, 2007
    Very good shots Stephen, great color and light. clap.gif
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  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited June 2, 2007
    Harryb wrote:
    Very good shots Stephen, great color and light. clap.gif

    Thanks Harry. The caterpillar shots are some new pics that I took with my recently purchased 580 EX II Speedlite flash. I am just learning how to use it. Pair it with a beamer and I am amazed that I can overexpose something from quite a distance. (I didn't use the beamer with the caterpillar shots.)
    Stephen
    www.capture-the-pixel.com

  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited June 2, 2007
    Ric Grupe wrote:
    :lol4He's smiling at you in that first one! thumb.gif

    Let's hope it comes back and smiles when it's a butterfly. :D
    Stephen
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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited June 2, 2007
    Those pillars are cool
    maybe if you can find one, you can track if through it's
    transformation?? :D

    That's what I been trying, but no luck yet headscratch.gif
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  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited June 2, 2007
    bfjr wrote:
    Those pillars are cool
    maybe if you can find one, you can track if through it's
    transformation?? :D

    That's what I been trying, but no luck yet headscratch.gif

    Already right there with ya, but unfortunately, I can't find the pillar any more. eek7.gif
    Stephen
    www.capture-the-pixel.com

  • dbaker1221dbaker1221 Registered Users Posts: 4,482 Major grins
    edited June 2, 2007
    great captures.wings.gif
    **If I keep shooting, I'm bound to hit something**
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  • Tessa HDTessa HD Registered Users Posts: 852 Major grins
    edited June 2, 2007
    very cool! i wonder what the butterfly will look like!

    Tessa
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  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2007
    Tessa HD wrote:
    very cool! i wonder what the butterfly will look like!

    Tessa

    Actually, you got me thinking and from looking around the Net, I think this is actually a moth larva. eek7.gif
    Stephen
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  • riddim_makerriddim_maker Registered Users Posts: 1,835 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2007
    Isn't nature just wonderful, if this caterpillar doesn't make it to beautiful adulthood, it will end up as chick-feed.
    Either way it would've served a useful purpose rolleyes1.gif
    #3 is the onethumb.gif
    Russ
  • Blackrose67Blackrose67 Registered Users Posts: 9 Beginner grinner
    edited June 3, 2007
    Very Nice
    I really like the third pic. Do you have the EXIF information for the pics??
  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2007
    Blackrose67 wrote:
    I really like the third pic. Do you have the EXIF information for the pics??

    For all shots these are the settings

    Digital Rebel XT
    Flash fired 580 EX II
    Shutter speed 1/160
    Exposure program: Aperture priority
    F-stop 5.6
    ISO 200
    Focal Length 54mm (just the kit lens)
    Metering mode - Photoshop says pattern. I honestly can't remember the setting I had it on. I usually use what Canan calls Evaluative.
    Stephen
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  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited June 3, 2007
    riddim_maker wrote:
    Isn't nature just wonderful, if this caterpillar doesn't make it to beautiful adulthood, it will end up as chick-feed.
    Either way it would've served a useful purpose rolleyes1.gif
    #3 is the onethumb.gif
    Thanks Russ. Nature sure is neat.
    Stephen
    www.capture-the-pixel.com

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