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Challenge: Best of 2011 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Flowers and Bugs
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm F/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Aug 2, 2011
Aperture: 6.3
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/2000
Date Uploaded: Jan 22, 2012
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Monarchs mating. I spent HOURS watching and photographing these guys after I figured out I had a girl and boy in the garden. This was the moment that most astounded me, when he took off with them still connected. Looks like it must hurt! I did find Monarch caterpillars on my Milkweed a few weeks later, but sadly none of them made it to the butterfly stage. Next year I may kidnap some caterpillars and raise them inside till they're ready to fly.
PP - cropped, white balance, levels, colored/cloned out white spot in background, colored female butterfly more orange, dodged/burnt butterflies, increased contrast and saturation, desaturated some butterfly bits, reduced noise, touched up a couple of sensor dust spots, vignette, resized, sharpened, added border. |
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02/24/2012 12:18:51 AM |
| Snap with the lens btw :) |
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02/24/2012 12:17:14 AM |
| 10, and totally underrated IMO. This is not easy to do, even with (hours) a few hundred attempts... |
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02/23/2012 09:40:17 AM |
| Very difficult capture....you did great!!! |
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02/22/2012 04:38:44 AM |
| A little too much space in my view. |
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02/18/2012 12:52:59 PM |
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02/18/2012 09:10:53 AM |
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02/17/2012 06:21:21 PM |
| Privacy, please! It is hard enough to capture one of these nicely, let alone get two of them mid-air. |
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02/17/2012 08:16:45 AM |
Honey Bees bumble
Flutterby Butterfly tumble
Spring sings
Romance is in the wings
Love the bold orange hue that just pops off the soft greens. The capture of the two butterflies in a twirled flight is not an easy feat. Congrats on being able to get this shot. The colors, the flowers, the twirled flight all sing spring to me. |
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02/14/2012 06:50:00 PM |
| Wow - fantastic capture - nicely done! |
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02/14/2012 02:37:45 AM |
YOU MAY NOT: submit a photograph depicting male or female genitalia, or acts of sex deemed inappropriate by a majority of the Site Council.
that was a joke by the way :) |
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02/13/2012 03:28:10 PM |
awesome, almost even abstract if one ventured to go there... love the antennae :)
9 10 |
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02/13/2012 05:01:38 AM |
| Fantastic capture. Deserves to be in National Geographic. |
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02/11/2012 01:21:40 PM |
| wonderful detail and colors |
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02/10/2012 04:32:23 AM |
| NG worthy, stunning shot. |
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