Costa Rica - La Qunta - Butterflies

[guppiecat]

La Quinta had a butterfly enclosure. They had fewer butterflies than the place I'll be posting later, but on the plus side, it wasn't 120 degrees in there. On the minus side, it's where I broke my elbow. The set is here.




The outside of the blue morpho is not blue.


But the inside is!


A close up. Shot handheld.


I just like the composition here.


This is the butterfly that broke my elbow. They're much more vicious than you'd think.


This one thinks she's a tiger.


Blue morphos are also shiny


Very shiny

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Wait, you broke your elbow? Did we know this? How are you healing up?

The butterflies are lovely, but I'm more concerned about you right now.

[guppiecat]

I mentioned that I hurt it, I only found out it was broken a month or so back.

I'm healing up OK.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

How did the butterfly break your elbow?!

[guppiecat]

I slipped on a rock and fell on day 3 of the trip. I was taking a photo of that butterfly at the time, so it's clearly his fault.

I relied heavily on my monopod for the rest of the trip.

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about your elbow, glad your camera was saved. I don't think I'd've had the fortitude to continue taking photos.

Stay away from vicious Costa Rican butterflies!

[trishtrash.livejournal.com]

Butterflies mugged you? :( *stares worriedly out of window at multitude of cabbage whites throwing themselves around the garden aggressively*

The detail of the first shot is marvellous, but it doesn't have the curled tongue of your hand-held shot, which just slays me... and blue morphos are stunning. I love these, the whole set (wld_5867 in particular, there's something appealing about the off-centre framing... but if that's the bastard that broke your elbow, I hope he gets et by birds).

[hrrunka]

Very very shiny! :)