I just looked it up, our ones are indeed the same ones from the American continent.
I've always found that macro lens to be very versatile. It's always quite easy to find a few interesting things to photograph in the garden. The only downside is that you may find yourself in a few contorted positions in the process. I was using a watering can as a makeshift tripod for those ones. Cheers, Dave > On Feb 29, 2020, at 4:00 AM, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > > Very smart images, Dave. I really need to get going with my FA 100/2.8! > > Are your Monarchs the same as the ones in the USA. We get (African) Monarchs > here but they are a different species. > > Alan C > > On 28-Feb-20 05:52 AM, David Mann wrote: >> We had a monarch butterfly emerge today. Both photos from the FA 100mm >> macro. >> >> Ready to hatch: >> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1070/#peso >> >> Ready to fly: >> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1071/#peso >> >> That second photo is frame #9999 on my K10D. Only took me 12 and a half >> years :) >> >> Cheers, >> Dave, >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
