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CalevPhoto

Photographing the Earth, one millimeter at a time…
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Crabs and butterflies – a great combo

This weekend we took quick runs through two of Seattle’s sights.  First, we decided to spend some time at Discovery Park.  This park is well known for a remote beach that contains lots of interesting marine life when the tides are down.  To get there, you need to either walk a few miles, take a shuttle, or drive there.  With small kids, walking was not an option and the shuttle wasn’t running that day.  In order to drive there you need a permit, of which there are a limited number.  The administrator was nice enough to give us a pass for an hour when we should have reserved one beforehand.  We spent the hour looking for crabs under rocks.

This is a purple shore crab, as evidenced by the purple top of the shell and purple dots on the arms.  Unfortunately the next crab I have been unable to ID yet.

We then headed to the Pacific Science Center.  There we found out that our tickets included a free IMAX movie of Kung Fu Panda – one of our kids favorite movies.  Unfortunately that meant we only had an hour to see the entire museum.  It also meant that I had all of five minutes to photograph the butterfly exhibit.  I put on my 180L, MT-24EX, with the flash attached to a Wimberly macro flash bracket, and took as many shots as I could.  Obviously since I was hurried the shots aren’t as good as I would have hoped, but I did validate that the 180L is what I want to use here.  I haven’t had time to ID these yet.

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Posted in Insects and Macro photography 2 years, 1 month ago at 6:38 am.

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  1. I love the butterfly photos.

  2. That Bokeh is smooth as Buttah……..what a lens.

    Tom

  3. The butterflies are way cool, and the crabs are nice, too. (I had never heard of Kung Fu Panda. One misses a lot when one doesn’t have children, I reckon.)


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