Macro Photo Competition 2016 No 6 : Entry Number 84

First of all congratulations for this first place! Still a picture full of poetry and softness, the composition is just perfect, the depth of field was ideally chosen in order to bring out this magnificent caterpillar. The background is sublime, the colors are soft and pleasant. A picture of beauty!

Thanks a lot for selecting this Picture as first prize and thank you for your nice words about it. The words meant a lot to me because they describe what I want to achieve very well. My name is Henrik Spranz and I've shot this photo not far away from Vienna where I am living. I've used a Canon 5d Mk iii with a Canon 180/3.5 L for it. The bokeh was not made with Photoshop and all in all there is no much post processing in it (besides tonal correction, white balancing, sharpening, denoising, saturation and contrast). The swallowtail caterpillar was photographed with open aperture on one of its favorite food plants in a colorful meadow when the fly was having a visit :).