Butterflies

I was initially extremely keen about birds, but i soon realised that i couldnt really shoot birds with a 35 - 70 mm lens. However, a friend told me that i could easily shoot butterflies with this lens, just by attaching 'diopters' ( basically, magnifiers ) onto my lens. I tried it out, and realised that i could get pretty decent shots this way. Slowly, i got more interested in butterflies, and am now the fulpakhruwala ( butterfly man ) instead of pakshiwala ( bird man ) in Tekdi Pune. 2 of the photos shown here - those of the striped albatross and the common guava blue are likely to be used in a new book on Indian Butterflies.

Shown here are a few of my butterfly shots.

Click on the thumbnails to see the full sized images.

© All images - Harshad Karandikar. Please do not use images from this site without permission.

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