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I went to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles today. My main goal was to take Pictures of Butterflies.

The Pavilion of Wings was OK. It was a little smaller than I expected. I don’t know why I assumed there’d be some giant field with wild butterflies everywhere, but it’s basically just a tiny little one room tent kind of thing. Once I thought about it, that made more sense, but it did leave me without much in the way of variety for photo opportunities.

That didn’t stop me from filling an entire 512 Meg card, and leaving barely any space for images of the rest of the museum. Butterflies move a lot, so you need to set you camera to rapid fire to get anything like a good shot, and rapid fire eats through photos like nobody’s business.

Since I was there already, I decided to explore the museum proper. And let me just say that LA: light / motion / dreams is a remarkable audio visual installation that provides several interesting perspectives on Los Angeles history. If you’re in the area and of an artistic or historic bent, go out of your way to see this show. It’s really very well done.