Appias paulina - Christmas Island White/Common Albatross

[photobitz]

Not technically a macro. This was shot with my Sigma 100-300/4 from about 3 metres. Still enough detail at that distance to crop to a nice size like this :D Top lit by a rather lucky patch of sunlight which has penetrated the wings enough to light them up nicely.

Hope you like

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[LordV]

Lovely shot - did wonder how you were going to claim a shot of one the biggest birds in the world was a macro :)
Brian V.

[alliec]

Lovely shot - did wonder how you were going to claim a shot of one the biggest birds in the world was a macro :)
Brian V.

:-) i was thinking the exact same thing:D Nice shot too.

[Attic]

I like the lighting a lot in this shot Dan ;)

[photobitz]

LOL That didn't even occur to me!

This is actually two frames. One where the front wing and head were in focus, The other with the back wing in focus. I tried a stack in CombineZ but it got all screwed up because of a slight rotation, then when I rotated it complained about different frame sizes.... bah, all too hard! So I just added the rear wing as a second layer in PSP. Hopefully it isn't too noticeable. I think I did a pretty good job though (better than what I got out of CombineZ on this occasion anyway)

[johnkermit1]

very funny indeed...i thought this was a bird post too...lol