End of...the Season

our garden,

long past prime...

bleeding hearts

Japanese Kite Butterfly

Tips for Butterfly Photography:

• Use shallow depth-of-field to blur busy and distracting backgrounds

• Use a longer macro lens to "compress" backgrounds

• Frame the subject with appropriate secondary subjects

• Keep the plane of the butterfly's wings parallel to the camera plane to maximize depth-of-field even while using a wide aperture to blur the background