Cycad Blue

[digimania]

This small butterfly, the Cycad Blue, is considered a pest to gardeners. It lays its eggs on valuable Cycad Palms and the caterpillars will eventually caused damages to this beautiful ornamental tree. For this shot, I had to go down to ground level. Did this with the help of a angle finder.

Canon D30 with 75-300mm USM III + 36mm extension tube
Settings at 1/200, f8, ISO 100 with fill flash from omnibounced Canon 420 EX set at -2/3 FEC
Richard

 

[Raymond J Barlow]

awesome! too bad there isn't more contrasting colours to the background, but, It's very cool actually!

 

[Alexandra]

actually i'll have to disagree with Ray about the contrasting colors... I rather love the way the background matches the butterfly's wings, it gives some kind of dominant color to the pic. Love it!

 

[Cipriano]

Excelent capture.

 

[digimania]

Thanks for the comments. I feel the overall brown tone gave this shot a very special feeling.
Richard

 

[Mansi]

i love the muted tones! wayyy neat... sweet exposure and the detail is just fantastic
love the eye-level pov
thanks for sharing

 

[JonK]

i love the muted tones! wayyy neat... sweet exposure and the detail is just fantastic
love the eye-level pov
thanks for sharing

My thoughts exactly. another killer flutter-by shot

 

[digimania]

Thanks Mansi and Jon for the kind comments.
Richard

 

[AIRIC]

Sweet!

Eric

 

[JTHphoto]

he's too pretty to be a pest. Excellent photo! :thumbup: