I was out looking for shots to enter to "Green II", found orange flowers and got carried away photographing them; while doing this, the butterfly just flew in and landed on exactly the flower I was photographing!
The image doesn't really give the impression of unexpected find, but it was quite unexpected so I'm entering it anyway, because I like it.
I wish I could clone out (or smudge in) the OOF stem at the top left - I have done so for the print, and it improves the image IMO.
Shot RAW, converted in Nikon Capture, saved as TIFF.
Opened TIFF in PSP9:
Cropped
Adjusted colours via levels
Applied lightest clarify
Applied light noise reduction
Resized
Sharnened
Saved as JPG
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Simply beautiful. The muted background colours compliment the subject so well. Could've simplified the composition further by cropping off the vertical stalk, but either way, an exquisite shot.
lovely macro--could be even sharper. the colors are delicious and the flower is beautiful. i'd really like a white border on this, make the butterfly pop out even more.
The body is not in focus like the wings are. Its a bit distracting. Not that I know how to fix it, but I notice it ;). Taking pics of insects like this are hard.
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