butterfly in the stairs

After my blue-bee sighting, and because I'm now taking a photography class, I actually have been bringing my camera with me every day. My homework assignment for my photography class this week is to take pictures of things you either love or hate about Delhi and India. Am trying to figure out how to get a good photo of traffic to represent things I hate but the honking is actually what drives me batty and that doesn't come through in a photo.

Anyway...one of the things I love about Delhi (and India) is the randomness of things; that I have 3 times seen elephants in the street, that people sell coconuts on the streets and people put a straw in the top and drink the coconut water, etc., etc. But the problem with random things is that they are, in fact, random, so how do you catch them in a photo?

Well last night as I'm walking up the stairs to my apartment there was a butterfly sitting on the stairs. So I very quietly grabbed my camera (which luckily was in my bag) and took about 20 photos...playing with all different sorts of light and this is what I've got. Not the best because the background is sort of blah, but still you can see that this is a very beautiful butterfly just chilling out on the stairs at my place - very cool.