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Comma

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted September 2, 2013128 views7 comments

A butterfly of the fritillary family - a comma, so called from a mark under its wing - on verbena flowers

Canon 7D, Tamron 55-200mm lens @ 200, 1/500 sec @ f9, -1ev, ISO 400, hh, Color Efex vignette blur

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7 comments

Comment posted by scott lanz on September 2, 2013 at 8:22 AM

Way to catch this beautiful bf doing his thing and showing off his beautiful color and markings, Ian. Fine capture of the outstretched wings. A nearly perfect subject, and a great "textbook" view.

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Comment posted by Daniel & Loana on September 2, 2013 at 4:16 PM

Very nice subject and capture. The BG works very well.

D&L

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Comment posted by Ramamohan Pai on September 2, 2013 at 5:55 PM

Ian - Just lovely. Love how the coiled proboscis is rendered and seen.

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Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on September 3, 2013 at 2:44 PM

Beautiful color and detail on this bf! I like the coiled probiscus. Nice use of the vignette blur to isolate the bf.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on September 3, 2013 at 4:09 PM

Fine catch on this BF against a lovely background. I take it these are trans-Artic, since we have them over here as well.

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Comment posted by Jeffrey Sipress on September 3, 2013 at 4:12 PM

Never seen a creature named after a punctuation character before. Nice image, Ian.

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Comment posted by Sanjay Sundaram on September 7, 2013 at 7:35 PM

Beautiful, Ian. The color and details are outstanding! Nicely done!

Sanjay

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