Photo a Day, Day 125...Caught two of these Pearl Crescent butterflies on my Black Eyed-Susans this afternoon... They were just hopping from flower to flower as butterflies do making it very difficult to focus in on them with the 24-70 (should have had the 100-400 which would have afforded me some distance - Don't think they were fond of the big lense inches from them...)
When this one lit on this tattered flower it struck me at how tainted humans are by the perception of what is good/desirable... Would I have shot this tattered flower if the butterfly wasn't on it? Possibly... Would I have used it as my PAD? Highly unlikely... I wouldn't think anyone would be interested in a photo of a tattered flower... So there you have it... I'm a flower discriminator... And yet the butterfly could care less that this blossom was tattered and torn...