Newly emerged Monarch in the wild drying its wings before taking flight for the first time. This is really a basic image but it means a lot to me since I spend hours and hours photographing this single butterly near my home base in Florida.
NIKON D300+Sigma 150/2.8 EX Macro (225mm crop factor) with Nikon SB-R200 speedlite in manual mode.
1/100 sec at 7.1
Exposure mode: Manual
ISO: 320
Image copyright 2008 Robert OToole