Meadow brown....in a meadow

[Jonathan Ashton]

Monopod Canon 7D Canon 180mm macro ISO 400 +0.3 1/500 sec f10
Here I set out to capture the butterfly in it's environment, all C&C welcome.

[stuart wanuck]

Like it lovely detail

[Mitch Haimov]

I like what you're doing here, Jon. Good use of DoF. The OoF seed heads work well, but I find them too bright and suggest a little dodging. Overall, a pleasing image, although I'm also surprised, considering the frequency at which you suggest it, that you didn't put the meadow brown in the LR RoT position.

[christopher galeski]

nice image of a meadow brown,they don't keep still enough for me to take an image of one.

[Jerry van Dijk]

This is very well done Jonathan! You've got the butterfly completely in the plane of focus, so everything looks sharp. I also like that we see some of its environment. I second the comment about off-centering the butterfly towards the LL ROT hotspot by cropping from the UL corner.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks very much everyone, the image was cropped as is becasue I felt the surrounding grasses provided the best pictorial surroundings. I was determined to try to present the image as it was as far as possible without brushing and cloning.