Barend van Liempd Photography: Old trains running on steam and butterflies

This long weekend I went to Goes (Zeeland) to have a look at some old trains and also to be on them :) Together with my mom, we had a very fun time. LOTS of photographers running around at these events.. I don't know why :-) I guess all I-R-father-/w-free-time-need-to-make-photo's-with-way-to-expensive-cam-I-bought ran around there ;)
We also went with the old steam train to a place close to Goes called Kwadendamme. In this small settlement there was a mexican garden with lots of butterflies. So ofcourse I had to go and take pictures :)

So, the pictures! I only had my 16-45 lens with me, so the butterflies are no real macro's but the lens does quite a good job at close focussing. AF-C was very helpful here on the K10D. I used the AF button to disable AF-C (custom setting) as soon as the focus was right and the AE-L as soon as exposure was set (point exposure) at the right point of the butterfly. Using this technique I got the right exposure almost any time. M(aster) mode all the way baby ;)

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