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Butterfly stare-down

Butterfly stare-down

Checking out the public gardens in the downtown area where I live, I came across this flower with a very focused small species of butterfly. I was pretty stoked...
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Checking out the public gardens in the downtown area where I live, I came across this flower with a very focused small species of butterfly. I was pretty stoked that it let me get so close with my macro lens on and play around with a shallow depth of field.
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OLYMPUS E-M5MarkII

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Aperture f/4.5 ISO 100 Shutter 1/500 Focal Length 60/1

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Jun, 2020

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