Western Tailed Blue Butterfly

I did a lot of work on this image because it's just too pretty to pass by. It was sitting on a cluttered beach, and at it's small size, even pebbles are large. My solution was to select the butterfly, filter in just a little more detail, and then darken the background and add an even darker vignette. Because the actual size of the cropped image is quite small, I increased the canvas size for the border.

This picture was taken on the MeetUp hike around one edge of Howard Prairie Lake on August 7, 2011.