WOW! What a great capture! I love this shot and would have given it a 7 or 8 had I had the chance to vote at the time.
I'm sure you've heard this before, (I haven't read the other comments) but the trees on the right, DARN IT! If you could have either come from a different angle or been able to clone them out, this would have been a top 10 shot for sure. The colors, the clarity on the bug, it's all there, it's just those darn trees!
Great shot! Got my top vote! Would have been a nice picture w/o the beatle, but the bug just totally makes the picture. I would be surprised if this doesn't ribbon.
excellent entry, maybe I would have cropped the image to more of a portrait and loose some of the distracting background vefetation - hope this does well for you!
love the clarity of the bug in the photo. the sun in the back adds a nice ambience to the overall photo. if only you can remove the grain and noise on the sky though. 8
Lovely and moody. If it was mine, I'd probably experiment with cropping the right 1/3 out of the image. It would concentrate interest in that nice cmposition of leaves falling from the top.