Photographing butterflies with the Samsung WB150F

It is getting easier to shoot beautiful butterflies with a high magnification zoom lens. I can now capture (shoot) them without disturbing them. Here is one I shot at Clarkfield UP Campus.

Photo taken by Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio with a Samsung WB150F compact digital camera.

A beautiful milkweed danaid butterfly

What I like about these butterflies is that they are not shy in exposing their beautiful topside of their wings. Here is one which I caught in my Samsung camera and posted in Facebook.

Insect	Danaid butterfly
Location	UP Clarkfield, Pampanga
Camera	Samsung WB150F
Photographer	Dr. Ernesto Adorio

Flowers: Allium Tuberosum, garlic chives.

It looks undistinguished but macro shots of the flower heads exposes the beauty of the humble garlic chives.

Plant	Kingdom: Plantae/Clade: Angiosperms/Clade:Monocots/Order:Asparagales/Family: Amaryllidaceae/Subfamily: Allioideae/Genus:Allium/Species: tuberosum
Common Names	garlic chives, Chinese chives, Oriental garlic, Chinese leek, also known by the Chinese kow choi, kutsay, cuchay, jiucai, kucai, kuchay, Gana(Bisayan)
Location	QC, Fairfield School
Camera	Olympus VG-110
Photographer	Ernesto Adorio
Reference	Wikipedia, Stuart Xchange

Costus Speciosus, crape ginger

Please click on our earlier Sep. 4 entry on Costus. The contents of this post will be deleted later.




This is a plant growing wild in Negros and I was happy to find it in Paradise Ranch, Pampanga. The plant is native to Sunda Islands, Indonesia. Its roots has some medicinal value, with aphrodisiac properties!

Plant	Zingiberales/Costaceae/Costus Speciosus
Common Name	crape ginger
Location	Paradise Ranch, Pampanga
Camera	Samsung WB150F
Photographer	Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio
Acknowledgment	Dr. Romana Reyes(Costus name).
Reference	Wikipedia

Calathea makoyana, peacock or brain plant

It looks like a painting! But these rich foliage plants from Paradise Ranch are Calathea makoyanas, common names peacock plant or brain plant. It belongs to the prayer plant of the marantaceae family and the species originated from Brazil. Here is a photo from Paradise Ranch, Pampanga.

Here is another photo, this time at Philcoa, BLISS.

Plant	Calathea makoyana
common name	peacock plant, brain plant
Location	Paradise Ranch, Pampanga(first photo), Philcoa, QC(second photo)
Camera	Motorola Fire XT531 phone(first photo), Samsung WB150F 2nd photo)
Photographer	Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio
Reference	Wikipedia
Acknowledgment	Alan Carlos(photographic assistance in first photo)

Orchids : Epidendrum Secundum, Crucifix Orchids

My Australian Facebook friend Susan Dicker, posted a photo of not one but two crucifix orchids with pinkish-violet and orange colors. I thought there was a wire ruining the photo but it is actually the flower stalk of the orange crucifix flowers cluster!

Plant	Epidendrum Secundum
Common name	Crucifix orchid
Location	Australia
Camera	Panasonic Lumix S3
Reference	Wikipedia>

Image owned and copyright by Susan Estrope Dicker. Published with her permission in this blog.

Tree,: Licuala Grandis, ruffled fan palm

This strange looking palm is a native of the Vanuatu,in the Pacific. The nice thing is that it will only grow to around 2 meters.

Plant	Licuala Grandis
Common name	Ruffled palm
Location	Paradise Ranch
Cameras	Motorola XT 531 Fire phone(first and second photos), Nocia C3 phone(third and fourth photos)
Reference	Wikipedia