Calico Pennant # 2

[Steve Maxson]

This is a female calico pennant. In my previous post of a male, I noted that this species tends to tilt its wings toward the sun and this female is also exhibiting that behavior. 40D, 300 f/4 + 1.4X, 1/250, f/8, ISO 200, no flash. Comments are welcome.

[Jonathan Michael Ashton]

Another excellent image, great light and detail
Jon

[Don Lacy]

Wonderful image with nice vibrant colors, I keep hoping to see and photograph one of these guys so i am a little jealous.

[Ed Vatza]

Another wonderful d-fly image, Steve. Love the wing position here. Image is very sharp. Background looks great. A winner in my book.

[Dan Brown]

Very Good! Great BG. I would prefer to see this vertical however (gota say something!). Dan Brown

[Julie Kenward]

Very nice image Steve, but I think I might have preferred a vertical composition instead of the horizontal one presented.

[Kaushik Balakumar]

Oh wow - sharrrrrp & good details. Lovely clean BG too.

[Robert O'Toole]

The sharpness and the BG colors and smoothness are superb! The perch is very good looking also, this is the kind of perch I like to see. Excellent.

for me the only thing I would change is to take a step to the right after I made this image. Being parallel of slightly in front always looks better. See the back of the head for an example of what I mean. If you see the back of the head its pointed away, unless its head is turned of course.

Robert

[Steve Maxson]

The sharpness and the BG colors and smoothness are superb! The perch is very good looking also, this is the kind of perch I like to see. Excellent.

for me the only thing I would change is to take a step to the right after I made this image. Being parallel of slightly in front always looks better. See the back of the head for an example of what I mean. If you see the back of the head its pointed away, unless its head is turned of course.

Robert

Hi Robert. I see your point. Thanks for the constructive comment.