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December's Passion

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted January 6, 2013133 views9 comments

It was mostly cloudy when I made this last month, with the sun breaking through at times.. So the Passion Butterfly passed my way, and successfully brightened up my day

F/10, 1/800th, IO 640, 1D M3, Canon 300mm f/2.8 + Kenko 2x ext @ 10:01 and natural light - Rare to see this one in December here.
The changing leaves are from a myrtle tree.

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Paul Wolf on January 6, 2013 at 9:17 AM

Very nice, Howard. The complimentary colors between the plant and the butterfly, along with the terrific background really make this shot for me. You have also done a great job in capturing and presenting the texture in the wings and the leaves. Again, they compliment each other so well. I also like that I see no noise in this image. Great capture, excellent processing and it's good the day was saved by this creature!

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Comment posted by David E Lester on January 6, 2013 at 11:42 AM

Paul sumed it it up...excellent!!

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Comment posted by John Clulow on January 6, 2013 at 11:45 AM

David summed it up when he said Paul summed it up. Awesome.

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Comment posted by scott lanz on January 6, 2013 at 11:53 AM

Hi Howard, nice to have you back posting again. Excellent first post for the new year. Great job with the perspective, plane of focus and the light. I like the perfect view of the beautiful wings against the clean bg, and the butterfly could not be any sharper.

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Comment posted by Eirini Pajak on January 6, 2013 at 7:37 PM

Super nice! I love the colors & the background is perfect. The lighting on the butterfly shows it off nicely!

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Comment posted by Carolyn Derstine on January 9, 2013 at 4:15 PM

Such a wonderful combination of colors in this image, Howard. The blue background makes such a nice contrast with the color of the leaves and butterfly. Very nice lighting and good focus.

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Comment posted by Bill Fach on January 12, 2013 at 3:54 PM

Howard: Nice catch. We have fritilary caterpillars on our passion vines but haven't seen an adult in some time. Nice light and really good plane of focus management.>=))>

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on January 13, 2013 at 8:34 PM

The soft light really lets the colors in the bf stand out. Welcome back and congrats on your near miss for the Nature Conservancy, one of my favorite organizations.

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Comment posted by Elizabeth Arellano on January 25, 2013 at 4:14 PM

Beautiful, the colors are so nice.

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