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First Breakfast

by Bill Fach

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted June 20, 2010165 views7 comments
Sony A700
Minolta 200mm macro
ISO 200, 1/60 @ f16

This is the same butterfly as the last post. His first flight was about 45 feet and ended at one of our coneflowers. He stayed there sunning for several minutes. I'm not sure he actually did any feeding as most butterflies really don't need to eat the first day or so. I actually never observed the proboscis extend but I liked the title anyway. BG is a bed of phlox. All comments welcome.>=))>

Comments

7 comments
Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on June 20, 2010 at 9:53 AM
Bill:
This is a stunning image - a beautiful BF on a beautiful flower! You are lucky to catch the swallowtail resting for a few minutes; as you know, there tend to be on the move all the time. The exposure is spot on with discernible black eye on a black body. Very well done. :toast:
Registered on September 1, 2009, 588 Posts, 8184 Comments
Comment posted by Mike Gallo on June 20, 2010 at 5:21 PM
love the pose of this fresh bf on this coneflower Bill, nice bg to add lots of interest to the image :cool:
Registered on September 14, 2005, 182 Posts, 1471 Comments
Comment posted by BorgesiusBeckles on June 21, 2010 at 12:04 AM
Bill i really liked the other image,the bg in this image is a bit distracting :wink:
Registered on November 25, 2003, 253 Posts, 434 Comments
Comment posted by Doug Benner on June 21, 2010 at 8:06 AM
Beautiful, Bill. Love the background.
Registered on December 8, 2003, 482 Posts, 1868 Comments
Comment posted by Mauro Pasquero on June 21, 2010 at 6:10 PM
Beautiful image, Bill. Yet I do prefer the previous one as well. IMHO bold colors of the flower and the BG are prevailing vs the BF that should be the main subject of the image.
Mauro
Registered on January 21, 2010, 650 Posts, 2500 Comments
Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on June 23, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Beautiful colors Bill nice light too
Registered on June 30, 2009, 300 Posts, 5051 Comments
Comment posted by mark cillo on June 24, 2010 at 4:52 PM
Really nice! One of the best BF images I have seen here in a long time :toast:
Registered on July 27, 2008, 143 Posts, 1483 Comments