Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucus) photographed today at Green Spring Gardens, Alexandria, Virginia.
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August 3, 2012 by Mike Powell
Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio glaucus) photographed today at Green Spring Gardens, Alexandria, Virginia.
© Michael Q. Powell. All rights reserved.
Posted in Bugs, Flowers, Insects, Macro Photography, Nature, Photography, wildlife | Tagged back-lit, Canon 55-250mm zoom lens, Canon Rebel XT, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, flowers, green spring gardens, nature, sky, swallowtail butterfly | 2 Comments
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ahhhh… much more peaceful and calming to look at this before falling asleep! No more scary wormy bugs!!!
Seriously though, this is a lovely photo – more than even your technical skill in capturing detail, I really appreciate your composition!
Thanks. I was happy to be able to capture this butterfly up against the backdrop of the sky. A lot of luck involved with that happening. Once it did, though, the light coming through the wings was amazingly beautiful, I am not sure the photo–good as it may be–actually captures the full extent of that beauty.