Hi, Tango,

Warning: I'm not a nature or macro photographer at all (my training is as a photojournalist.) So this was fun, and I was happy with the results, but it's not at all the "right" way to do it.

I was using the 20mm prime lens. I don't have a zoom for this camera (Panny GF1). It close focuses to about 8 or 10 inches maybe, so I just shot at f/2 -- a whole lotta photos to get a handful of good ones. (Good ones = eyes in focus.) Everything was shot hand held, mostly using the LCD screen on the back of the camera and the center focus point. That way I could hold the camera in close to the butterfly, but stand a little farther away so as not to spook them.

What made the biggest difference was this -- there must have been thousands of butterflies along that half mile trail. Tens of thousands. They were so busy eating, they weren't paying much attention to me.

--Ken