Monarchy

Posted by Graham Russon (Cape Town, South Africa) on 27 February 2008 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.

A Monarch butterfly taken at Kirstebosch Botanical Gardens

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Comments (13)

Ina from Krugersdorp, South Africa

Excellent detail. I had one in my window yesterday and took a whole lot of pics... amazing patterns and lines, like the dots!

27 Feb 2008 8:01pm

@Ina: Thanks Ina.

Tracey from White Hall, United States

Fantastic. They are beautiful cretures for sure.

27 Feb 2008 11:57pm

@Tracey: They are. My daughter believes that they are the messengers of fairies.

Elisa from Massachusetts, United States

beautiful! I like the contrast of colors and the details.

28 Feb 2008 3:08am

@Elisa: Thank you Elisa

Rags from Plano, United States

That is a really pretty image.

28 Feb 2008 5:14am

@Rags: Thank you

Michael Skorulski from Cigel, Slovakia

Lovely detail in this excellent image.

28 Feb 2008 6:11am

@Michael Skorulski: Thank you Michael

June from Cape Town, South Africa

Simply beautiful Grazy. I Love the colours. Keep up the great work.

28 Feb 2008 6:54am

@June: Thanks June

pLusOne from Cheonan, South Korea

cool macro!
wish Spring comes fast so I could do like this one! it's still cold here.lol

28 Feb 2008 10:47am

@pLusOne: Thank you, your spring is my autumn, so not too fast.

bm from Budapest, Hungary

Fantasic shot with at such long focal length. Perhaps a bit more contrast would make this an even better image.

28 Feb 2008 10:48am

@bm: Thank you, yes the contrast and colours would be a great improvement. Unfortunately so much is lost when the image is resized from 3500px to 800px by the A3 compression algorithm.