While photographing dewy plants and insects in our garden, I saw this St John's butterfly sitting dewy on the wild marjoram. Just when I was going to take the first pictures the rising sun shone on the wings. I adjusted my position so that the wings, which are normally dark green, looked like gold.
The photo is a stack of 20 photos.
After years of working as an artist and teacher I got more time to take up photography again. Only two years ago I bought a system camera, after all kinds of peregrinations with compact cameras that eventually didn't satisfy me. Now I photograph with my Panasonic GX9 and several.. Read more…