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The Flame Thrower

The Flame Thrower

I took a wide aperture shot of this gorgeous Buckeye so that the flowers in the background would blur to provide pretty bokeh. Looks like the butterfly is blow...
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I took a wide aperture shot of this gorgeous Buckeye so that the flowers in the background would blur to provide pretty bokeh. Looks like the butterfly is blowing fire.
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Canon EOS 7D

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settings

Aperture f/3.5 ISO 320 Shutter 1/1600 Focal Length 100/1

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upload_date

Jul, 2020

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