Both NANPA and Nature Photographers have some incredible talent amongst their ranks. It's heartening to see an image of mine make the grade... even though it's been seen before...
NANPA Daily Sampler:
North American Nature Photography Association - The Daily Sampler
Screen shot of the page:
Here is the full image - taken with the "soft" K10D JPEG:
EXIF
Photo Dimensions 3135 x 2250
Crop to show detail:
Photo Dimensions of crop 1568 x 1432
This was a hand held shot in bright daylight at F/11, 1/180 sec., ISO 100, 200mm, AV mode. Used diffused flash to fill the shadows on the subject. I was approximately 2-3 feet away and I couldn't get the entire subject in the shot. I did a little bit of cropping to better balance the background and the subject.
I have yet to see this sort of a wing position in a butterfly ever again! Perhaps 2-3 images I have had unusual wing positions, but the backgrounds were a much drabber brownish-gray of the soil before managing to get into the ideal spot and not scare this Yellow Swallowtail off...
Cheers,
Marc