Insect photography // Butterfly hunting is a tough challenge and a beautiful wildflower find

Good afternoon to all my beloved hive friends ♥️

I don't know why the weather in my area is now very hot, even though it was just the rainy season a few weeks ago but now it's hot again. And it can be seen in several rice fields that residents have just started preparing their fields to be planted with rice, even though the rainy season may have ended. Luckily, several reservoirs in my area have full water and I am sure the water in the reservoirs can meet the needs of farmers in the rice fields.

I woke up in the morning and saw the sun was very hot, the temperature reached 36 degrees Celsius and that was already hot. However, even though the sun was very hot, I still decided to go to the river in my area to hunt for some beautiful pictures there.

I immediately stopped after opening the door of my house and saw the air outside was very hot with the sun shining very brightly, especially since it was only 10:00 am when the sun was almost at its hottest point.But because my determination was firm, I still stepped my feet to go to the river.

On the way to the river I took about 15 minutes on foot, I deliberately did not bring a motorbike because the road access to the river was very damaged, so I decided to walk to make my job easier. Right when I set foot in the river I immediately saw a butterfly that had extraordinary beauty, seeing the beauty of the butterfly I began to approach it slowly but surely so that the butterfly would not fly away, and on that occasion I managed to take some pictures showing the beauty of the butterfly.

After you see some of the results of the butterfly photography, now I will tell you about my obstacles in photographing the butterfly until I get satisfactory results. I have often said that butterflies are very wild insects and they will immediately fly away when we start to approach them and like the butterfly in the picture, the butterfly is so wild that I managed to photograph it in 7 attempts, well that was really tiring, where I had to chase it when it flew away from me and I kept doing it over and over again until I got this satisfactory result.

And because of my position in the river and in the river itself there were some sharp rocks so my feet were injured by the rocks when I wanted to chase the butterfly.

But fortunately the wound I experienced was not too serious so I could still continue my journey to continue looking for some beautiful pictures around the river, and that is proof of my sacrifice to get satisfactory photography results, I did all of that with great happiness and of my own will because it has become my hobby and is very fun to do.

Still around the river, I managed to find another butterfly, and this butterfly also has extraordinary beauty and the patterns on its body are truly beautiful.

What attracted me to this butterfly was the pattern on its body that looked very beautiful, the pattern on its body was like a painting that was beautifully carved naturally, but unlike the previous butterfly, this butterfly was a little tame which made me able to photograph it with satisfaction, therefore I also tried to photograph it with the help of a macro lens to be able to photograph it from a closer distance.

Still the butterfly did not fly, and it was a stroke of luck for me because I got some very satisfying results from a butterfly, I photographed the butterfly very carefully and precisely with the aim of getting results that looked detailed and of good quality so that my photography results were interesting to look at.

And after feeling satisfied photographing the butterfly, I immediately continued my journey to continue along the river, so that at one point I saw a butterfly that had a solid black color and seemed to be still on one of the trees on the edge of the river. I started to approach the butterfly and at first I thought the butterfly was dead but it turned out the butterfly only looked very weak but still alive.

I don't know why the butterfly looked so weak, maybe it was a natural factor that befell it. Because of curiosity, I started to touch the butterfly to make sure, and after putting it back, it was seen that the butterfly immediately flew to another tree.

After finishing photographing the butterflies, I immediately looked at the clock on my cellphone and I was surprised because it was already 12.00 noon, and at that time it was the hottest point of the sun because the sun was right above my head, I decided to go home, especially since I was doing this hunt alone and it was also very risky.

but on the way home I decided to go by land, well on the way home I passed several plantations owned by local residents and I also found a wild flower that had extraordinary beauty, the flower was so beautiful I decided to photograph it.

I don't know the name of this flower and I also very rarely see this flower, the size of this flower is also very small so I have to use a macro lens to get a detailed picture, I photographed this flower under the sunlight and I was willing to endure the hot sun to get this satisfying result.

After feeling enough I immediately continued my journey home, so after spending about 11 minutes I arrived home. So those are some pictures from my photography today and a little story from me in this post I really hope this post can provide entertainment for all my friends.

Camera used	Infinix 10 pro
Lens	108 MP
F-stop	F 1,75
Iso speed	ISO 965
Focal length	5 MM
Photography	Random
Editing	Lightroom
Photographer	@riyat

My name is Riayat, often called Riyat by my friends. I come from Indonesia, precisely in the province of Aceh. I am a village child who likes to explore nature and likes to tell stories so this Hive blog is a very suitable platform for me

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