Macro Photo Competition 2013 No 1 : Entry Number 281

This beautiful butterfly on a black background, the colors stand out really well, there are many details and the development is very good.

Hi, it's Melody Hendrix. I live on the Space Coast of Florida. Sometimes I will collect caterpillars from my garden and put them into my butterfly house. I love to watch in amazement the miracle of transformation into a beautiful winged creature. This Orange-barred Sulfur has just emerged from it's Chrysalis. Wings still wet, it is putting together the two pieces of it's proboscis to form a sucking tube to feed on nectar. There is little editing done. Shot with my Nikon D7000, it was photographed from inside, with two flashlights positioned just right, and a black cloth added for the background.