The beautiful black swallowtail butterfly!

I went out early to this wheat field and was lucky to find this black swallowtail butterfly! I love the morning light behind it! It's such a beautiful butterfly!

[April]

Love the blue/gold tones. Beautiful butterfly

[Casablanca]

That is just beautiful - fav.

[Diana]

Simply magnificent! Awesome capture and background colour. Big fav

[Suzanne]

Just so lovely in every detail

[carol white]

Gorgeous capture, lovely detail. Fav!! 😀

[Richard Sayer]

He is indeed rather splendid, as is your picture of him... simply superb.

[Wim Enserink]

Beautiful picture of the 'hard' butterfly against the soft background

[gloria jones]

Superb focus, details

[*lynn]

💛 fav

[Tracie Broadhead]

and a stunning shot!

[Stef Neyhart]

This is my favorite of favorites... totally amazing. The contrast and detail in the butterfly with that soft light filled background just blows me away!!!!

[Lynda McG]

Wow, fav

[Joyce W.]

gorgeous!!

[Milanie]

Beautiful morning light on him.

[CC Folk]

A beauty and fav!

[Wylie]

what gorgeous butterfly and you've captured it with a perfect low key background, lovely and sharp. fav

[Denise (lyndemc)]

And absolutely exquisite photograph, Faye. Huge FAV!

[Kerri Michaels]

beautiful fav

[Dawn]

Beautiful fav

[Marloes]

Stunning details and dof. Love those dof colors. So soft. Why didn't I follow you sooner? ;-)