monarch

[stuart wanuck]

nikon d 800
sigma 180 mm

[Jonathan Ashton]

A lovely shot, Ileke the setting and you have a good pose. I photographed these recently in Madeira and even though they are large I found them tricky to photograph as they never landed in a photogenic spot. I think it is just about spot on , I know the blacks really are black but would check just to see if there is a small amount of clipping, I suspect there is in the jpeg but possibly not in your raw file.

[Allen Sparks]

Stuart, I like that the butterfly is sharp all over - also like the pose hanging off the flower. Might crop a little off the right to reduce the oof portion in upper right.

Allen