I don’t actually have a macro lens yet (I’m saving my pennies) so I have to use my 200mm telephoto, then enlarge and crop. (The image would have been clearer if I had a macro lens.) As a result, I didn’t even know I had captured this beauty. I thought I was just taking a picture of a beautiful flower that I could enlarge to show the detail. As I was looking at this photo in my iPhoto library, I noticed something was sitting on the bottom portion of the flower. I wasn’t even sure what it was at first because I was just browsing thumbnails. I clicked on the photo to see what I could do with it – whether or not I could edit it into a usable photo and voilà! C’est merveilleux! And an unexpected grace.
*This, by the way, is a butterfly, not a moth. You can tell by looking at three things.
- The antennae are smooth, not hairy or feathery looking.
- The butterfly is resting with the wings up. Moths generally rest with their wings spread out flat.
- This picture was taken during the day. Moths come out at night.
Zebra's Child 
I didn’t know any of those things about moths/butterflies: thank you.
I didn’t either. But I was trying to figure out which one it was, so I looked it up. Found the information on a YouTube series on science for kids. It was very informative. The channel is SciShow Kids: Butterfly or Moth?
Thanks for that 😀
The old saying is true: “You can take the teacher out of the classroom, but you can’t take the classroom out of the teacher.” 🙂
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