Monarch

[Allen Sparks]

Canon 7D2, Canon 400mm f4 DO, 1.4x TC III, puffin pad
ISO 640, f8, 1/1000s

I was trying for hummingbirds at a local garden when this Monarch showed up. Shot from car.
Did some BG smoothing in upper and lower right.

[Nancy Bell]

Just lovely. You captured a great pose of the butterfly sipping nectar, and both front legs and both antennae visible; all with great details and beautiful summer, sunny colors. This image really lets me concentrate on all those white spots on both the body and wings. Wonder how they help in the survival of the butterfly.

[Ron Conlon]

Really great stuff, so perhaps worth cloning out the diagonals in the lower left background.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Quite lovely Allen. The diagonals that Ron mentions, if evicted would add to the lovely soft background.