Bubbles and butterflies are not easy to work with. Third time is the charm I guess.
First time: 10 mph winds would sweep away the bubbles before I had time to press the shutter. Not to mention the Monarch butterfly flew away right as I snapped the shutter.
Second time: With another live Monarch Butterfly I moved the photo shoot inside to a south facing window. Cleaned the window. Set up the composition and snapped 75 photos. Butterfly was let go. 2 were good but I found out that my camera had decided to change the date to Nov. 16, 2005!
Third time: Was fortunate enough to capture another Monarch. I was also fortunate to have a 1 hour break in the rain storms that are coming off of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Rita. I made sure that the camera had today's current date before I started taking photos. This time I snapped 30 shots of which 3 were really good. This is the best of three:-)
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I just knew you'd come up with something. Question, and you can answer anywhere you want to...how is it that you know much about attracting and capturing insects?
Hmmm. I have no idea how you would control this, but I would have liked to have seen the bubble closer to the butterfly. The bubble is so transparent that you almost miss it. Also, I wish you comle have gotten rid of those dark leaves/branches which are out of focus. Some people want everything!! I really think it's a good concept and execution, but it needs some tweaking on the composition.
Well, this is just beautiful. Technically perfect. Okay... if I had to be picky I'd say the bubble could be shifted slightly to the right. But otherwise an excellent shot.
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