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21st Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Gulf Fritillary flight

Taking an image of a butterfly or one in flight is one of my passions. No one ever sees what it looks like. I work with visually impaired patients and never realized they have never seen a butterfly. A recent patient comment was," all my life I have heard about butterflies but had never seen one until now. “ We take so much beauty for granite.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 04.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2023
Photo Location: Highlands, North Carolina, United States of America
Camera: NIKON D500
Copyright: © Robert Willson