Butterfly.jpg
by fldave

Comment by SaraR:
We seem to get so few butterflies here in the UK these days, so it is lovely to see other's photos of them. This is really nice - crisp focus and lovely colours on the butterfly, and interesting that it is feeding on a flower of similar colours. Do you think that is just chance, or part of nature's design? On a technical note, it would be good if there was just a bit more separation of the foreground subject from the background - I think that has more to do with the similarity of colours than with the depth of field not being shallow enough, and personally in this instance I am not terribly keen on the coloured border.

Butterfly.jpg
by fldave

Comment by toddgray:
Wonderful color and light, I am sure you are making our northern neighbours jealous

Butterfly.jpg
by fldave

Comment by JerseyGenie:
Nice one, Dave. As we are balmy today ... all the way up to 32 degrees ... you hassle us by showing us this beautiful butterfly hinting at what Spring will bring us in several more months.
Seriously, nice capture. Nice crisp details and a warm feel too.

A Wife's Best Friend
by fldave

Comment by Alain:
Very nice dog but the wooden fence as a background does not help the picture.

A Wife's Best Friend
by fldave

Comment by IreneM:
Very good. Beautiful golden colors.

A Wife's Best Friend
by fldave

Comment by Blackbox:
The focus is very, very good. The downfall is that I'm getting a lot of unnatural blue color in the nose and around the eyes.

Lucky for me I was wearing a hard hat!
by fldave

Comment by moolacoola:
I'm not sure how lucky you'd be considering the saw is half way through the hat!

A Wife's Best Friend
by fldave

Comment by MaryO:
Very handsome (or beautiful, as appropriate). I'd move the dog a few feet more in front of the fence so the background blurred more. With a biggish dog like this you need a fair amount of DOF to get the whole head in focus, and the fence color isn't enough of a contrast to enhance the dog so I'd want to minimize the detail in this background.

A Wife's Best Friend
by fldave

Comment by Shadowfax23:
beautiful face

A Wife's Best Friend
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Comment by Rainbow-Coloured-Soul:
Lovely golden tones.