Sunday, September 09, 2007

Wings of Paradise

Hey, I uploaded a video!




"Wings of Paradise" is a butterfly conservatory in Cambridge, Ontario (roughly 15 km from Waterloo). It hosts over 2000 free-flying butterflies in a tropical garden that reminds me very much of the Palm Garden in Frankfurt. Over 85 species of butterflies from Costa Rica and the Philippines are represented. Despite it being a sunny Saturday, the place was not too crowded with people.

Quite amazing what one can do nowadays with a digital camera the size of a cigarette box (the original movie had 45 MB and a considerably better resolution). Some of the photos you can find here:



For more info visit: www.wingsofparadise.com

9 comments:

  1. Hi Bee and Stefan, great photos, I expanded the butterfly photos using the zoom function, they are great, but could not veiw video, this is my computer problem I believe, anyway thanks to you both for sharing an obvious great day out, best wishes paul.

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  2. Great digital media!

    With global warming, maybe those butterflies will be allowed outdoors!

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  3. Short & sweet - the movie.
    Bees and butterflies, pollinating the plants, sometimes buzzing or wings flapping just fluttering around

    all they ask for is just a little nectar - enough to complete their task

    sometimes butterflies seem like colourful dust particles, just for a moment held together and endowed with 'life'
    as they fly past sprinkling dust and magic pollen in their short particulate life

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  4. Reversible and irreversible are levels infused in each other. A phrase taken from the Kuhnian book

    It works on a lot of different levels I think?:) Nice pictures of you two.

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  5. Dear Bee,

    thank you for that great video :-)

    It's amazing indeed how that little camera can take so many movie shots. But it's even more amazing to see your talent in pulling together all that raw material to such a beautiful video!

    Cheers, Stefan

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  6. Wow, soooooo sweet...! Thank you, Bee.

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  7. Who doesn't love butterflies? Wow, that was great!

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  8. Hey Bee, Stephan,

    what a lovely couple you are!

    Cheers,
    T.

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  9. We had a great visit at the Wings of Paradise. I recomend this outting, they also have an information, and education area, for those who wish to learn more.

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