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A Tale of Two Butterflies

A Tale of Two Butterflies

Two amazingly beautiful monarch butterflies that I often refer to as "Nature's jewels", sip on nectar at the butterfly sanctuary in Pacific Grove...
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Two amazingly beautiful monarch butterflies that I often refer to as "Nature's jewels", sip on nectar at the butterfly sanctuary in Pacific Grove, California.
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camera

NIKON D7100

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settings

Aperture f/7.1 ISO 200 Shutter 1/800 Focal Length 2500/10

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upload_date

Apr, 2017

Views

1080

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+179

Awards

Peer Award

+44

Absolute Masterpiece

+32

Superb Composition

+14

Top Choice

+9

Outstanding Creativity

+5

Magnificent Capture

+2

Superior Skill

All Star

Genius

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WOW, this turned out really beautiful Nina :)

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The tale of two butterflies......beautiful

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Such an exquisite and delicate image, Nina! Love this! ッ

absolutely perfect! シ

I really like your photos, almost as if you are creating paintings with a camera.

Fantastic edit so beautiful.

A perfect Spring Presentation.

Beautiful capture!

Absolutely beautiful image!

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Gorgeous Nina! Beautiful art.

so elegant , so beautiful Nina :)

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Stunning

Stunning image Nina :)

Meravigliosa, Nina...! A real masterpiece...!

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Love the title but love the photo even more. You make it look like spring is here.

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This is so lovely, so delicate. Beautiful artistic work!!! : )

Excellent

Just stunning, Nina! So graceful and artistic! :)

In my opinion this image is one of the very best on Viewbug !!!

Wow Nina, this work is incredibly beautiful!!! I can`t take my eyes off.

I wanted to give you a GENIUS! but you know ...always the same old story with VB. So sorry - you deserve a GENIUS!!!

Platinum

This is so absolutely beautiful!

Beautiful beyond words!!! ❤

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Just beautiful. Love it.

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Beautiful work..so pretty:-)

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How gorgeous, Nina! Your work is spectacular!!

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Beautiful! Thank you for joining my "Butterfly" challenge! Good Luck!

Beautiful shot!

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STUNNING

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Love the feel of this image...soft and airy. Nicely done! :)

There's a butterfly contest going on right now! This would be a winner.

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Absolutely gorgeous shot

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