Skyshadow Photography: Paper Wings

This image, except for minor cropping and sharpening, is just as it appeared in the field. Taken from a kayak with a long lens, the narrow focus on just the butterfly and flower in an otherwise busy, fresh-water marsh scene with lots of other movement and detail, makes the scene seem a bit surreal. The yellowish light is partially due to the early morning sun and my experimenting with settings on the camera. Painters mix and modify pigments to get certain effects in their renderings of a scene. So can, and do, photographers. I like it because the light is so directionally on target and the subject so beautifully isolated. It speaks so well of the way nature has many worlds within endless worlds, like a lone solar system with humans, among a billion galaxies.

Chassahowitzka River Florida
2010-07-07 (19)