Butterfly on a bush by goodoleboy
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Captured 4/15/15 @ 8:56 am, not at the beautiful Pavilion of Wings at the beautiful Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, but at the front gate of my usually congenial condominium complex.
What a surprise this was. Every ten thousand years or so, we do get a visit from an errant butterfly, this one a relatively small Monarch. And I was there to record it.
Auf wiedersehen.
Comments (9)
Cyve
Wonderful butterfly my friend ... Fantastic capture also !
MrsRatbag
A lovely capture of this monarch; I haven't seen one of them in so many years I can't remember when the last one happened. Excellent colour, texture and light control Harry!
Mulltipass
Perfect Capture!!!!
prutzworks
nicely captured
magnus073
Nice work on this very lovely capture, Harry.
CavalierLady
Gorgeous Monarch! Wonderful photo, Harry!
claude19
your area is colonized by beautiful butterflies ... great shot !!!
anahata.c
When this went up, I looked up monarch butterflies on google, and found that they're considered endangered. Here's a quote from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: "Since 1990, about 970 million have vanished." That might explain their rarity. But that's besides the point---the shot is so gritty and wonderfully grainy on the right, and bokeh'd on the left; and the butterfly, in this environment, stands out but also blends-in. It's a very powerful piece of natural capture, as if the butterfly were posing in a studio to get this effect. The confluence of all those leaves---and such different colors and shapes (with a twig in there)---makes this look like a construction made by an artist. Terrific seeing, and such strong textures and light---it's almost flat in spots, from the light, as if the monarch weren't 3 dimensional. Of course, the butterfly is beautiful, and you caught it with great fidelity to its details. But the overall composition is splendid. A terrific day's uploads---three great shots! Another fav.
debbielove
Ah! Now this is a Monarch buttery mate, at least I know one lol Excellent shot you've got here, well done. Rob