{"id":12731,"date":"2017-08-24T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/?p=12731"},"modified":"2017-08-23T07:55:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:55:33","slug":"giant-wood-nymph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/giant-wood-nymph\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Wood Nymph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Giant Wood Nymph (Idea leuconoe) photographed in the Christina Reiman Butterfly Wing\u00a0of the Reiman Gardens on the Iowa State University Campus in Ames, Iowa.\u00a0This species is no nymph in wingspan (up to 4.5 inches) but it was most likely given this name as a result of its graceful flight.\u00a0The flight behavior of these butterflies is slow and graceful, alternating between fluttering wing strokes and gliding dips.\u00a0The giant wood nymph is native to southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12728\" style=\"width: 1125px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170818-reimen-gardens-09-edit.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12728\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/giant-wood-nymph\/giant-wood-nymph\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170818-reimen-gardens-09-edit.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1125,1500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Terry B. 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Kahler 2017&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;A Giant Wood Nymph photographed at the Reiman Gardens on the Iowa State University Campus in Ames, Iowa, in the summer of 2017.&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;exposure_bias&quot;:&quot;0\/10&quot;,&quot;flash&quot;:&quot;16&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Giant Wood Nymph\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;A Giant Wood Nymph photographed at the Reiman Gardens on the Iowa State University Campus in Ames, Iowa, in the summer of 2017.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Giant Wood Nymph&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170818-reimen-gardens-09-edit-563x750.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170818-reimen-gardens-09-edit-1125x1500.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12728\" src=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170818-reimen-gardens-09-edit.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Wood Nymph\" width=\"1125\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170818-reimen-gardens-09-edit.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170818-reimen-gardens-09-edit-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170818-reimen-gardens-09-edit-563x750.jpg 563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giant Wood Nymph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This image was taken with my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/glossary\/sony-alpha-a7r-ii\/\">Sony A7R II<\/a>\u00a0using my\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tkahler.com\/blog\/glossary\/sony-fe-70-200mm-f4-0-g-oss-lens\/\">Sony FE 70-200mm f\/4 Lens<\/a>\u00a0set on 200mm. The camera was set on\u00a0Aperture Priority mode with the aperture set at f\/9, shutter speed at 1\/250th of a second and the ISO set at 1600. I hand-held the camera for this photo. This is a single image processed in Lightroom and finalized in Photoshop using Nik Color Efex Pro.<\/p>\n<p>This image is best viewed large. Click on the image to enlarge it. 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