Gatekeeper

[Jonathan Ashton]

Hand held Canon 1DX Canon 180mm macro Fill in ring flash, ISO 800 1/250 sec f11

[Diane Miller]

Gorgeous oranges against the greens and posed at a pleasing angle. Lovely detail but missing some tack-sharpness on the edges of the wings. But that's not a huge flaw to me -- the DOF was probably about a tenth of a mm.

[Allen Sparks]

Hi Jon,
Love the colors of this species. Well captured. Nice sharpness in body and most of wing. A pleasing image.
Allen

[Nancy Bell]

This has a lovely soft-textured feel to it. I can see/feel the softness of the hairs on the back of the butterfly; something I suspect I really couldn't feel through the roughness of my fingers. I like that the texture of the leaf is sharp just surrounding the butterfly and then fades off into the other greens of the bkgd. This is a wonderful, serene moment suspended in time.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Nicely done, Jonathan. What a beautiful butterfly, beautiful colors. Thank you for sharing.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Beautiful capture Jonathan of this little butterfly and nicely blurred background too!