@julieco yes it is, this was some mint flowering in the glasshouse. lucky for the butterfly I haven't managed to bushwhack through the tomato plants to clear the m old mint out yet!
the saturative contrasts are what make this a more remarkable macro to me. the sharpness, wing orientation, and equally interesting flora add to the feel, but its the holistic perspective i feel works magic into it.
@kali66 do you often find the very first (or very last) shot in such extended sequences is disproportionately the best or most evocative? disproportionately in terms of distribution of incidence, i mean. i find it very curious, though psychologically explicable, that many photographers i talk to feel that way...and yet we still hammer away at a scene because the confidence (or, perhaps daring risk) of imagining that its already in the canister seems impractical. i feel guilty to bomb the fuck out of something sometimes, but results sometimes speak for themselves...maybe its because we arent looking for our own voice, but for how we can display our perspective of the voice of another, and that can get complicated.
no not disproportionately, sometimes for sure, but often I really work at getting something right that I discover as I am doing it, and then overdo it, so one in the middle will be the one, as here. but I am frequently guilty of overkill, the joy/pain of digital.
Gorgeous butterfly shot, fav for me, well deserving its place on the PP! I remember that the Red Admiral was the first butterfly I learned to identify, from my dear Dad.
Well, lets just say between the wings, the flower and the background it's a gorgeous image...we can ignore the face, although it's interesting. I've seen a lot worse in the insect world!
