nature and landscapes Butterfly on Chinese Chive Flowers

Hand held using #2 closeup filter. Thanks in advance for any comments

or suggestions.

I like angle of view, that focus on butterfly wings. Flowers itself washed out, and make it less attractive. Also, it can be even better if background get little bit darker.

With all my best,

Grigoriy

Grigoriy, thanks so much for your suggestions! I'm still learning and appreciate your comments.

Diane

Do not worry, it take time and patients... and learning's curve is never end.

With all my best,

Grigoriy

Beautiful, love the pastel colours.Very sunny image, makes me happy.

Kind Regards Enny.

Enny,

Thanks for the nice compliment!  I'm sort of partial to the pastel background myself.  Totally unintentional - it's the brick from the pathway and stems of the other flowers.

Diane

Nice! The only times I get to see a buckeye butterfly in Seattle is in late springtime at the enclosed butterfly exhibits here. You are fortunate to be able to see and photograph them in their natural habitat.

Technically, I find this to be a very nice photograph. A more narrow aperture will bring more of the butterfly and some of the flowers into sharper view, but you need to decide on that. I would have chosen a more narrow aperture setting to bring more into sharpness. I also would have cropped it differently, but i consider cropping to be a personal preference of each photographer. Your is just as good as mine, but they would be different.

Shawn - many thanks for the kind words!  I had not thought about a different crop but have been playing around with cutting out a bit more of the left side and about a third of the bottom.  Haven't decided if I like it better or not!

Fine slice of the nature. Flowers and pleasure of the butterfly. Fantastically beautifully.