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So I organised a trip to the butterfly park with Shutter Asia as I wanted to test out my refined skills in Macro photography plus my new Raynox DCR-250 closeup filter and my botol susu flash diffuser.

I have to say it was a success! I'm extremely happy with the pictures, probably the first macro set that I really like - I tried to concentrate more on composition and taking attractive pictures rather than just snapping away and taking documentary pics or trying to get as close as possible.

You can see the pics I took last time here:

Macro at the Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park - Taman Rama-Rama

That was my first Macro outing back in December 2006.

I'll post some pics of the homemade diffuser up now I have a new compact camera - more about that later too

Anyway on to the pics!

My favourite shot of the day - Up close and personal.

Creamy Orange

My second favourite - Feeding time

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I went to the Butterfly Park around Jalan Parlimen area a while back in December to test out my new SB-800 flash and macro lens combination.

I was a bit noob then so my shutter speed was a bit slow as I didn't know how to change the flash sync speed (1/60s).

Macro is very challenging, especially on live things that tend to move around.

The shame is in the Butterfly park, the Butterflys are not very colourful and most have tattered wings due to being kept in captivity. I had far more fun shooting the Dragonflys which are quite static during late afternoon.

My First Dragonfly Shot

Moth Eye!

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Was at a bit of a loss when it came to what to do towards the end of the holiday as Mom has been here before, and we'd done most things, so she suggested the Butterfly park (Taman Rama-Rama in Malay), and off we went.

The entrance is about RM12-15 each, and RM2 for your camera!

It's a lush green jungle, it's enchanting as soon as you walk in. The Butterfly Park houses some 6,000 butterflies of over 120 species. The park is an imitation of the butterfly's natural habitat. It includes more than 15,000 plants from 100 species that have been used to recreate a Malaysian rainforest atmosphere

This is a huge moth, there was quite a lot of these.

There is actually butterflies everywhere, not like the crappy 'butterfly park' in Malacca, this place has thousands, literally.

Obligatory 'gay pose'.

Definately a good place if you are into Macro photography.

There's a large water piece running through the middle with massive Koi and a Tortoise section.

Love this picture.

It also has a very nice indoor section with a massive collection of weird insects from monster beetles to weird stick insects (dead and alive variants!).

Definately a fairly interesting place to spend an afternoon

Relaxing and interesting.