Friday, November 25, 2011

Photography in the Brazilian bird nursery - part 3

PARADISE for parrots and elusive KOLIBRI (continued, part 3) After a while we caught the eye of the pavilion with the inscription "Butterflies". "Aha!" - We thought. - Here's where you can make some great pictures! "We went inside and saw a large, I mean, very big beautiful blue butterflies. They do not flit here and there, like crazy English cabbage, which allegedly do not understand where they are and look for cabbage in the air. No! These butterflies flap their wings once or twice and the rest of the way soar. They're so big! Are the same as if I put two hands together and tried to depict a butterfly. Such are they huge! They glided smoothly through the air and seemed to land is not going, so pictures have turned out not so much. Peacock While we watched the large blue butterflies, I suddenly heard a loud "brrrrr" and something flashed next to my head, like radio-controlled helicopter. I even bent down and asked: "Is that still a thing?" One does not wanted to have my head rammed baby Motrya (kaiju, monster, a giant butterfly from Japanese comic books and horror films, ca. Perevi.). Liz said that, most likely, it was a hummingbird. Of course, I heard about these legendary creatures, but never thought that I have an opportunity to see them. These birds are quite rare, in addition, they are terribly fast and small. Even if you are lucky enough to hear a bird, it does not mean that you're lucky even more, and you will see it! Well, the hell butterflies. Now I knew exactly what I want to see. I was in a pavilion which was full of living creatures, so that in order to watch the hummingbirds, I just had to get lucky. I started ogladyvatsya on the sides and after some time saw them. They are actually very small, even smaller than a sparrow, and quite well camouflaged. Despite the fact that the plumage of them with the tide, its color blends with the color of the foliage. They are so cheerful and happy, that they just can not help falling in love. Along with the platypus now I consider them their favorite creatures. We managed to photograph a hummingbird on both cameras. Place where Liz took the pictures, and its camera is better suited for this kind of shooting. Its camera is equipped with "smart" flash and automatically adjusted the shutter speed. I was a little jealous that her pictures were much better. I wandered the hall with his "big camera" and could not configure it correctly, but Liz is not eager to go to the waterfalls, because a bird nursery, we were already long. All my pictures from the hummingbird turned dark, and I became slightly irritated because of the fact that I customized, although in this hall, I spent over an hour. Butterfly When we came out of the pavilion of butterflies, I noticed that my bag was unaccounted for the passenger, a small butterfly "was driving the hare", apparently, she really wanted to escape to freedom. I was very uncomfortable because of my carelessness. I slowly returned to the pavilion. Fortunately, a stowaway is not fell off, and I tried to blow a butterfly so that it flew, but the beauty was too busy with the process of licking my bag. In the end, she crawled on my finger, and I tried to transplant it to a leaf. By the time around me have already started to gather people, and a smiling elderly woman decided to help me and began to blow on a butterfly trying to get it to fly away. The butterfly flew to her arm, and an old fool screamed and slammed the poor. I could not believe my eyes! I was beside myself with rage! Not sure what she had killed her, but, quite possibly, somehow injures. After such a painful incident, we went for a meal, waiting for us obderut as sticky, but were pleasantly surprised by the prices there are not biting, and the food was quite tasty. I took the bun with egg and cheese, and Liz had bought something like a hot dog. We also bought by the bank "Cola" and all it cost us 14 reals (about $ 8, approx. Perevi.). We ate and sat on a bench to enjoy a "Coke", but here we have stuck to some bees, but because of what had to quickly cancel our lunch. One bee climbed straight into my bank and I had to throw it with sweet lover who showed excessive activity. Hummingbird Liz noticed that my mood was not up to par after the story with photographs hummingbirds and butterflies with the incident, and she agreed to return briefly to the pavilion, where I again tried to take some pictures. Thank you, darling! We stayed there for more than ten minutes. I tried to reset the camera to take brighter pictures, but do so in the pictures was not blurry spots flickering wings, I could not get. When we were leaving, I saw a hummingbird with brown stripes, which was licking some lichen growing on the tree. I have a couple of times it photographed and the photos turned out quite good. After that we went to the falls, but that's another story. Start material:

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