On the morning of the first day of September, a Monarch butterfly feeds on a yellow coneflower.
I spent a good part of Wednesday morning, before work, at Hinckley Lake. The weather was nice and I wanted to get out of the house and catch some tranquility before heading to the office. I watched a pair of Great Blue Herons posturing and eyeing each other. They were a bit distant for dramatic photos. So, from the waters’ edge, I shot a few images for the record but mostly watched the slender birds practice their slow motion choreography. Walking back along the path I made efforts at photographing some back-lit plants. Those images, it turned out, were not in good focus — manual focus on ground glass is not very precise and I wish for a split-focus screen for my camera (sadly lacking). Back at the boathouse, however, I caught sight of monarch butterflies feeding off bright yellow coneflowers. I shot many exposures of the orange and black beauties. Shown above is my pick of the bunch.
PhotonStopper 
Hey! I cannot seem to add you with blog surfer. I am not sure why. Will keep trying. The butterfly picture is amazing with that background!!!
Freedom
I don’t know what the problem may be! I assume you tried entering “photonstopper” –all lower-case, no quotes– in the add box. That’s all it ought to take! Thanks for your compliment. I’m pretty happy with the photo though it’s much larger than I think I’ll want to post in future. — JG
I really like the picture that large!! I will continue to try to add you. I assume you are trying to add freedomsmith5 ? Well, we will get this figured out somehow.
I got it to add you this time 🙂
This image is so beautiful and sharp. Wonderful.
Hurrah! WordPress is back to normal!
Your photo is lovely! The colors are so vibrant!
Lovely butterfly. The first photo I posted on here I chose “large” and then it was so big I could not see it in the screen! The next two were medium and they were also too big. I will be selecting small from now on – at least here you can select the box and minimize the size (if you can see the photo edge in your screen of course LOL).
It’s difficult working on photos inside the compose window. I’ve pretty much standardized on 500 pixel width which helps but then I create all of my blog photos using Photoshop or The GIMP.