Love your photos Christine, thanks for sharing them. Really clear and will learn from you how to improve my own shots - a passionate obsessive with camera.

outstanding!

wonderful. I have a chrysalis hanging above my front door. I'm just waiting for this moment.

Fantastic macro shot!

a magical moment caught so very well!

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A great shot. You do beautiful work.

It's an amazing moment and an excellent capture. Love the light!

Kudos for the patience and for the fantastic result!

Well worth the time spent to get the shot!

Fantastic shot!

lovely capture, delicate touch and perfect light

Spectacular image.

Fantastic moment and capture!

What a beautiful moment and you captured it so sharp with warm colours.

Thank you all for your kind comments. I appreciate them all.

In response to Adrian -- I found six or seven chrysalises on my Bahama cassia plant, and missed the opening of all but the last two, despite many hours spent watching (they opened at times I could not be there -- a few missed by just minutes, and one of them was eaten by a wasp). This was the very last one, and I sat in the yard for well over an hour waiting for it to open after it appeared to be ready (the color changes and the "shell" becomes more transparent). It is very exciting, especially after a long suspenseful wait -- happens very quickly, and not on any schedule that I could determine, so a much more difficult task than I figured when I decided to try it.

A perfect moment captured by you.

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Wow!! Absolutely Gorgeous!
Regards, cbr ;)

Superb!!!