Alabama Photography Blog goes Boggy Again!
Author: Beverly // Category: Alabama Photography, Alabama photographer, Alabama photos
I made another trip out to the Weeks Bay Pitcher Plant Bog again yesterday. Tropical Storm Fay is on the way and I wanted to see what was going on at the bog before it possibly got hit by high winds. It was a bright but muggy day. I’m still waiting to find the fabled hordes of butterflies but only found about a dozen on this trip. Even so, that’s many more than the last trip so they are becoming more plentiful. I had my 70-200mm telephoto lens on the camera for this shoot. I had limited time so I went looking only for butterflies. I packed my tripod on this trip and used it at the beginning. With Fay off to the east the conditions were breezy. Between the zoom and wind I thought the tripod would be the best call. I use the continuous shooting method to best insure a clear shot. It takes a more powerful camera and more memory but the results are worth it to me. For the first 20 minues I followed the butterflies or at least tried to follow the butterflies. If you’ve ever done that you know it’s not very successful. Add to that being restricted to a boardwalk and you are even more limited. The butterflies were there and active but stayed far away. I eventually got smart and sat down on the boardwalk. After a few minutes the butterflies came to me! Since I’ve gotten into Alabama photography I have discovered butterflies are very curious. They tend to be camera shy or people shy but if you remain stationary they come over to check you out. One little moth/butterfly creature was very curious and became quite a pest. He kept crawling around on my feet and I had to shoo him away. At the end of my time there I had several very sharp photographs and left a happy photographer.
Tags: Alabama Photography, nature, wildlife