Swallowtail Butterfly

This is so beautiful Karen!

Lovely work!

Very beautiful. Just zoomed in on my iPad . Such great detail

Diese großen Schmetterlinge sind einfach fantastisch.

Nice catch and beautiful colours

Thank you, Diederik and thanks for the idea of a crop. I never thought to crop it and your suggestion makes it really beautiful in such a different way. Have a look: cl.ly/2o442t0W013W

Love the light, colour and detail in this Karen, not to mention the clever mirroring! :)

Fantastic shot and a great mirror effect!

We have a good population of the Swallowtails here in Alberta.

Sehr schön... tolle Arbeit

A beautiful experiment with the mirror effect, Karen, and a perfect ephemeral moment! :-))

Lovely symmetry.

Good one! =)

But... I dare to suggest trying to take mirror images a step further. Try sometimes to also rotate a little and crop the image into something else than symmetric ;-)

This of course works well, and looks cool just as it is. So, just a suggestion to try something new.

You are a brave one, Sami. :)

Here's one for you with a little rotation. Let me know what you think: cl.ly/0m1J1J0l3g0O

It's a good idea and it gives me the option to break up the monotony of the symmetry if I want to. Never would have thought of this so thank you very much! :)

Even better, I think ;-)

Glad you like. :)

...nice work, KAren

Stunning image.

Wow! A beautiful result. Wonderful colours, light and detail. An instant fave and then some! A spot-on musical match. New music to me. Like it lots :-) Cheers very much for posting to 'Sight and Sound', Karen.

Thank you, Roger. Glad that you like it so much. This was a very enjoyable challenge this week.

Cool idea, Karen, great detail!

Thanks everyone for your nice comments! :)

Beautifully creative.

wonderful use of mirroring

love the sharpness against the boke, a beautifully caught moment

wonderful shot Karen

Wonderful shot! Congrats on explore.

Thanks, Cheryl. :)

Oh this is really lovely Karen. A pretty little butterfly x 2! I love the mirror effect. A real stunner. Both singer and song are new to me, - lovely chilled out music

Thanks, Carol! :)

Exceptional capture. Congratulations on Explore!

Thank you, Kathleen. :)

Luvly capture!! 8 )
Coup de coeur animalier

Thank you, J-d Welch. :)

dinner for two......well captured

lol! Thank you, bertapei. :)

Doubly lovely with the mirroring!