I took this macro picture of a butterfly in the garden where there are more flowering plants. The butterfly is an atalanta and what kind of flower it is that the butterfly is sitting on I don't know, it does attract plenty of insects every year. This red admiral was sitting on the flowers collecting nectar. There was more of this species of butterfly in the backyard, I chose to take only one picture. When I took this photo it was already September and it was already in late summer. To take this photo I had a Nikon 85mm micro DX lens on my Nikon D7200, otherwise I took it by hand.
Welcome to my shop. My name is Gerard de Zwaan and I was born in 1983 in the Veluwe town of Harderwijk where I grew up and still live. I started photography in 2013. My first camera was a Nikon D3200 which I still own and is now as a.. Read more…