Here is another photograph from my recent trip to the Key West Butterfly and Nature Conservatory. This beauty is a Tiger Longwing Butterfly. This photograph was great straight out of the camera, but I decided to add my touch to it in post. I increased the saturation slightly, added some clarity and contrast, did a small crop, added a vignette, and some lens correction. My favorite part of this image is how you can see the butterfly’s proboscis (tongue) curled up.
Week 9, #45 Full Edit (Technical), Tiger Longwing Butterfly
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So I was sitting in my living room and I heard this loud noise on my porch. I went out to investigate and found this dragonfly bopping around hitting everything on the porch: the light, the window, the door, the plants, even me! I ran in to grab my camera and came back out. He continued to fly and run into things for several minutes before he landed on one of my plants. I was able to get a total of 3 images of him before he took off again, running into everything in sight. He apparently flew through a spider’s web and got it stuck on his wings, freaking him out. I was able to get him to land on me and I was able to get the spider web off of his wings. He promptly flew away after I removed it.
52 Weeks with Stacey Marie 