The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
One of the fun things about photographing insects in flight is you can sometimes catch them doing strange things. Like flying upside down, for example.
This Cloudless Sulfur had been attracted to the long-tubed red flowers. Cloudless Sulfurs have an unusually long proboscis, which allows them to feed on the same deep flowers used by hummingbirds. These butterflies are so attracted to red that they’ve been known to dive into red tail lights.
In southern Arizona, Cloudless Sulfurs are usually more common in the late summer and fall. But I’ve noticed that our very warm winter has changed the seasonality of these and several other butterflies.
Specific Feedback
I am interested in all your comments, especially those dealing with photography’s role in illuminating natural history.
Technical Details
OM Systems OM-1 Mark II, Post-processing in Affinity
1/5000, F9, ISO 2000, 150mm, no flash
It looks like it’s falling back intoxicated by the nectar. To increase this effect, you might clone out the brown thing between butterfly and bush. Your shot shows the proboscis well. Interesting about the attraction of red. It helps to know details like this so that you can say to yourself: “It won’t go for that, wrong color”. Looking forward to more of your bfs-in-flight shots.
Russell, this is a most unusual pose. Quite the action shot. I agree with @Mike_Friel about the thing that is between the BG and the flowers, if you can remove or tone it down some it might help. Even so, it is nature and everything isn’t perfect in it, so it is a great action shot as is.
Russ: Cleverly titled and superbly captured. You have captured one of my nemeses. I think I have about two moderately decent cloudless sulfur images in my entire collection. We don’t have many of them around here anyway and they always seem to just be passing through. I agree with @Mike_Friel and @Shirley_Freeman regarding removing the dried dead bloom and would also make the dried end of the upper stem go away as well. I’m certainly envious and would love to have this one. >=))>
