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Resting Beauty

Resting Beauty

On a cold morning this lovely butterfly fluttered helplessly down to the ground outside our gate. I picked it up and it stood quietly for a while on my hand. ...
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On a cold morning this lovely butterfly fluttered helplessly down to the ground outside our gate. I picked it up and it stood quietly for a while on my hand. I held it in the sunlight and after a while it seemed to warm up and finally it flew off into the new day. Charaxes Brutus Natalensis
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NIKON D7100

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Aperture f/5.6 ISO 100 Shutter 1/250 Focal Length 1700/10

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Oct, 2018

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