{"id":10097,"date":"2010-06-20T08:03:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T00:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=10097"},"modified":"2010-06-19T19:37:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T11:37:41","slug":"butterfly-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/20\/butterfly-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9969-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9969ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9969-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" align=\"right\" \/>If I had to single out one experience so far in Boston where I simply stood in awe for several minutes before getting onto photographic work, it would the Butterfly Garden. The Garden isn\u2019t a separate site by itself: it\u2019s a special exhibit housed inside the Museum of Science.<\/p>\n<p>The Garden is currently housed on the second level of the museum, and I was initially leery of going inside, as an additional admission charge was required on top of the Museum ticket itself. But what I saw inside was well worth the price of admission.<\/p>\n<p>The Garden itself isn\u2019t very big. It\u2019s perhaps just about twice the size of our living room. But the temperature and humidity-controlled oasis is filled with hundreds of these free-flying butterflies, and best of all \u2013 all seemed very used to the presence of humans among them. How many times have we approached a butterfly to only have it flutter away before we even get near?<\/p>\n<p>In this Garden, the butterflies are near enough to touch. In fact, upon entering the Garden, there was one that was on the ledge absolutely still I initially thought it was a mocked-up model \u2013 until a few minutes later, it fluttered away to seek a flower.:)<\/p>\n<p>And these pictures were taken on the Sigma 18-250mm lens. No macro, no f2.8. All handheld shots! An in several instances, the minimum focusing distance of the lens was a hindrance \u2013 the lens front element was practically just inches away away from the butterflies.:)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0021-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0021ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0021-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0028-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_A0028ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_A0028-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"275\" height=\"413\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9783-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9783ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9783-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9791-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9791ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9791-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9821-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9821ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9821-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9847-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9847ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9847-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9862-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9862ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9862-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9881-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9881ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9881-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9887-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9887ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9887-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9894-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9894ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9894-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9936-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9936ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9936-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9960-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9960ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9960-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9973-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blog2010bostonDSC_9973ScienceMuseumButterflyGarden.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2010-boston-DSC_9973-ScienceMuseum-ButterflyGarden\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many more pictures in the Flickr album. I took about 257 exposures in the Garden alone \u2013 all within the span of 45 minutes. I took videos inside the Garden, but have to wait for the (free) Vimeo account to refresh before I can upload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had to single out one experience so far in Boston where I simply stood in awe for several minutes before getting onto photographic work, it would the Butterfly Garden. The Garden isn\u2019t a separate site by itself: it\u2019s<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/06\/20\/butterfly-garden\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Butterfly Garden<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[469,137,363],"class_list":["post-10097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-cameras","category-traveling","tag-boston-2010","tag-d300","tag-sigma-18-250mm","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}