Have you ever gone through your photos so quickly that you missed your best shot?
Earlier this week I was really excited because I had finally gotten some shots of Monarch butterflies and I posted a number of photos of them. As I looked over my photos from Monday again this evening, I saw a shot that surprised me. It surprised me because it was really good and it surprised me because I missed it the first time.
Other than using unsharp mask, this is the image that came out of my camera without any cropping at all. (Naturally I downsized the resolution for the blog.) I like the composition, I like the focus, and I like the background.
It doesn’t take much to make me happy.
Monarch butterfly (click for higher resolution)
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Mike Powell 
I’ve skipped over some pretty good photos sometimes and discovered them later and sometimes it works the other way as well.
I agree-it’s a keeper!
A great photographer, DeWitt Jones, once cautioned against discarding any negatives (this was before digital imagery) during the first review. I have tried to follow this and usually succeed, and it does pay off. It can be very rewarding indeed to revisit “seconds” — there may well be treasures there!