I was lucky enough (it took extreme patience) to capture a butterfly that landed on a flower today using my Canon camera.
It would flap its wings every 45 seconds - 1 minute, thus it took previously mentioned patience to get more than one shot of it with it's wings open.
I still wonder if this particular butterfly is of a caterpillar I have seen through the lens of my camera, or of the cocoon I was recently lucky enough to see on a hanging tree limb. Unfortunately, i'll never know.
No matter the circumstance, today patience paid off.