Gallery: Behind the Scenes
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In order to photograph the endangered El Segundo Blue Butterfly at LAX, photographer Joel Sartore asked a biologist licensed to handle and study the species to help him build a plexiglass box to enclose the insect temporarily, as jets roared overhead. After several days of work, it paid off see image INS003-00001.
Keywords
- Airport
- Biologist
- El Segundo blue butterfly
- Endangered Species
- Habitat loss
- Joel Sartore
- Los Angeles International
- on assignment
- photographer
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