Chester zoo butterfly house

[LCPete]

Spent a nice couple of hours the other day at the butterfly house
It was great to see butterflies havent had the chance for ages and its too cold outside now
Really hot and humid in there, so I used my old camera and lens 350D and Sigma 105
last 3 are 2 shot stacks
Light was difficult so had to use high ISO

edited post added names
I managed to find out the names of 2 of them
2,4and 5 are Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charitonius) and I think 3 is Heliconius melpomene
No idea on the first one

80 at 5.6 ISO 800

100 at 5.6 ISO 800

60 at 5.0 ISO 800

60 at 6.3 ISO 400

60 at 6.3 ISO 400

 

[mrtoad]

hey!!! they look more like fish in a barrel to me...

all well taken with due regard to no background
the upside down one makes me feel giddy since you showed it right way up...looks the same
how about some salve magister..latin names and general names to broaden out the entomological side of things...labels on animals help those really intersted to check out the species and type
cheers
geof

 

[skipper]

excellent set like them all No 1 coming out tops

 

[LCPete]

Thanks geof thanks and for the C&C its very welcome
I used a wide apeture to blur the backgrounds but had little choice anyway as the light was so poor
good idea on adding names
I managed to find out the names of 2 of them
2,4and 5 are Zebra Longwing (Heliconius charitonius) and I think 3 is Heliconius melpomene
No idea on the first one

Thanks jeff