A painted lady butterfly on a giant coneflower

[Tom Barry]

Painted1-web by tombarry975, on Flickr

[Shadowman]

The wingspan is nicely captured, the head a bit out of focus; but who looks at butterfly faces anyway.

[Geoff F]

At full sized view it looks as though it is just the antennae which are a fraction out of focus. That is quite normal for real life photography and looks fine to me.

[Tom Barry]

At full sized view it looks as though it is just the antennae which are a fraction out of focus. That is quite normal for real life photography and looks fine to me.

Thanks, Geoff; that was my feeling as well. There is only a thin slice of true focus at such close range, even with the lens fully stopped down (f/8 for this camera, which, with the "1-inch" sensor, is about f/22 in 35mm terms).

[DanK]

nice. I was going to say that the flower is an echinacea, but then I googled and found that coneflower is a name for echniceas.

Hard for me to tell about the focus on the eye at this low magnification.

[DEAN01]

Beautiful captre, Tom.

[James G]

Tom, excellent capture

[IzzieK]

Very nice...

[deetheturk]

Lovely capture Tom!

[Barbara Ponder]

Beautiful! Love all the colors.

[Tom Barry]

Many thanks to everyone for your kind assessments.

[bnnrcn]

Very nice shot Tom, the pink part distracts a bit but you can change the color of it with PP anyway

[Tom Barry]

Thanks, Binnur.