San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary Butterfly - Click on image to view larger!

Thanks for viewing/comments! - Seems like a common butterfly since

I've seen it numerous times, however, I have no clue what it's name is. :-

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...says in the meta data, so this picture may advertise the IS features of the lens! I couldn't possibly achieve such a sharpness with my also macro tele zoom which doesn't have that feature!

 

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Thanks Pierre! I shot this in rapid mode since the butterfly move way too fast for me, he/she was actually had the body inside the flower and was pulling out. So I squeezed the shutter and hold. Obviously, only the first shot got the fired flash. I don't want to use flash on butterfly anyway, I was shooting hummingbird and this fellow happen to ... get in the way. So, I shot him! :-)

Nice capture!

A beautiful image - great detail, light, colour and composition. Well done, Margo.