Monarch Butterfly 17th June 2009
Monarch Butterfly

Monarch Butterfly

We’ve been away from home for a few days, visiting my husband’s family. A visit to a local butterfly garden yielded this gorgeous monarch. I was loving the textures and patterns so much, I converted it to black and white in order to show them off better.

EXIF information
model NIKON D60
exposureTime 10/1000 s
fnumber f/13.0
isoEquiv 800
focalLength 50
Width 738
Height 550
June 17th, 2009 hide details Posted in: Macro, Monochrome, Photography, Wildlife The permalink address (URI) of this photo is: http://www.caryncaldwell.com/photos/2009/06/monarch-butterfly/?info=on

Comments (10)

  1. Beautiful! May be you should have had this one in color?

    Amit Basu Photography — June 17th, 2009 at 20:12

  2. wow! an excellent macro shot of this gorgeous butterfly in mono!

    Liang — June 17th, 2009 at 21:54

  3. This is one hell of a macro, great work

    Chantal — June 18th, 2009 at 01:46

  4. that is one beautiful specimen there.. great capture! :)

    rian — June 18th, 2009 at 04:51

  5. Really nice close up. Love the fact that it is black and white as well!

    photo retouching — June 18th, 2009 at 13:57

  6. Amit, I decided to forgo color for the reasons listed above: I wanted to highlight the textures and patterns. Plus everyone does monarch butterfly photos in color; I wanted to do something different.

    Caryn Caldwell — June 18th, 2009 at 20:14

  7. Really nice shot, i don’t believe i have ever seen one in person before.

    Adam Patterson — June 19th, 2009 at 06:38

  8. Extraordinary detail. Love the b&w processing.

    Marcie — June 19th, 2009 at 06:57

  9. Wow how beautiful! I like it in B&W. Love the reflection it makes.

    Marianne — June 22nd, 2009 at 12:16

  10. Nice use of B&W to simplify and stress form.

    Harry — June 22nd, 2009 at 17:22

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