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Published: 2007-12-16 17:49:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 6415; Favourites: 432; Downloads: 154
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Description
Tagiades gana gana is one of the commonest representatives of this genus in Singapore. The wings above are dark brown with darker spots along the discal area of the wings. The tornal area of the hindwings are whitened and has diffuse black spots along the edge.All the Tagiades species are sun-loving butterflies and fly so rapidly that only the whitened area of the hindwings are seen, giving the illusion of a smaller white butterfly in flight. This photograph shows the characteristic flat open-winged posture which is usual amongst the Tagiades species.
Scientific Name: Tagiades gana gana (Large Snow Flat)
Description
Family : Hesperiidae
SubFamily : Pyrginae
Common Name : Large Snow Flat
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Comments: 74
The fact that you managed to get that close to the butterfly with scaring it away is amazing in and of itself.
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thats for the kind words. it takes some practice and with a degree of effort put in to manuver around them.
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I actually have never seen a butterfly from this angle before. It's very nice!
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some practice will help, small movements and try not to cast our shadows on them
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Taking a picture of a butterfly is very hard, so you must be quite talented. 
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well some species are more skittish than others. there is a certain degree of difficulty but nothing unmanagable. i just use the common macro lens in the market. this was taken by my trusty old tamron 90mm macro before i upgraded to the 180mm macro. these lenses do not really magnify the picture but it allows a 1:1 magnification of the image to the camera's sensor.
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Wow, 'tis very detailed and close up, though!
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you're on crack im not spamming!
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Posting the same message on multiple popular deviations is considered spamming.
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well we all got DD's and i was saying good job to all... but next time ill move a period in a different place or something... hoy
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Unique perspective and certainly not a typical shot - which makes it all the more interesting and well shot!!! Congratulations on the DD - I'm really glad Kkart discovered this shot so we could have the pleasure of enjoying it!!!
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thanks for the kind words, its such an old shot though.
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You're welcome - and it has apparently stood the test of time!!!
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How do you catch a picture like this? That's amazing!
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thanks for the kind words. this was when i first started butterfly photography, and i didnt know nuts about shooting them. if i remembered correctly, there was a flowering tree,( the butt is feeding on one of the flowers) Leea indica which can be found all over in our nature reserves. just manage to squeeze a few shots off it before it took off.
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Neat. Gotta love those lucky little things that turn out just right.
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that's such a cool view 
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