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Milkweed Assassin - Zelus longipes
Copyright © 2011 Robert Lord Zimlich

Milkweed Assassin - Zelus longipes
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
September 24, 2011
Sometimes meta data can be totally worthless, registering the time I processed the RAW file instead of the time the photo was taken. To wit, the data indicates this photo was taken 5 minutes after the assassin emerged, when it was actually a couple hours. My jpeg image indicated approximately 3 hours. Moral of this story? Shoot both RAW & jpeg if you want accurate EXIF data.

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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 24 September, 2011 - 9:57pm
Last updated 26 September, 2011 - 7:02am

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