{"id":20,"date":"2011-05-17T22:58:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T22:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2011-05-17T22:58:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T22:58:59","slug":"butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/17\/butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the highlights for me each year at the Flower and Garden Festival in Epcot is the butterfly garden! I absolutely love taking pictures of butterflies. Now, I have a compact point-and-shoot digital camera that, while it takes great pics, only has a 3x zoom. Butterflies are tricky little things and in a big tent full of people and kids chasing them, pointing at them, trying to get them to land on their hands, etc., getting close enough to get a great shot can be a challenge!<\/p>\n

I missed the butterfly garden until the very last day of the Festival, but I think I did pretty good. Here’s a few of the shots I like the best from the bunch. All pictures taken Sunday, May 14th and all are au natural. The only post work I did was resize for the blog and put my watermark on them. I’m a digital photo purist.
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\nThere was also a beautiful yellow\/black butterfly I tried chasing down but he just kept fluttering away and not landing! Like I said, tricky little buggers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the highlights for me each year at the Flower and Garden Festival in Epcot is the butterfly garden! I absolutely love taking pictures of butterflies. Now, I have a compact point-and-shoot digital camera that, while it takes great pics, only has a 3x zoom. Butterflies are tricky little things and in a big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,16,8,10,7],"tags":[46,43,45,44],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-epcot","category-international-flower-and-garden-festival","category-photos","category-special-events","category-walt-disney-world","tag-bambis-butterfly-garden","tag-butterflies","tag-butterfly-garden","tag-butterfy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}