Luna Moth & Strawberries

Cut the top off and you have a HELL of an image.

WOw! That's a beauty!

Very cool shot.

Cut the top off?
The whole composition is excellent!
The two halves make a wonderful contrast and the greens match each other extremely well.

I think you needed more upper dark space.Perhaps,a little more blurring too.
Kyprianos

I like the 50/50 composition exactly the way it is!

Wow. Beauty!

That's fabulous! My wife just told me all about this moth. Fascinating photo and lepidoptera.

Thanks for the comments, they are much appreciated!

Mark, I am considering a number of crops, I will check out your idea. My first reaction is that this is simply how I framed it based on my delight of finding such a pretty creature in my garden, so I'd like to keep that context for myself. But I do appreciate constructive suggestions such as yours. I have considered cropping below the lone blossom at top left.

Naknak, I took some others shots with shallower DOF, this is just the first I threw on the scanner. I did do some with more background blur.

By the way, I think we are a few weeks early with this moth (we were also very early with that gap-toothed smiling dragonfly I posted some weeks back). Based on the bugs, I have planted my whole veggie garden a month early, and so far so good.

I think this moth is in the saturnidii family. I claim that velvia nailed the colours very, very accurately. The light was very close to 5000K. I think there were a few high clouds that diffused the light just enough to save the range. I was very tempted to do this on astia, but velvia was already out of the fridge, so....

Thanks again for the comments. The only suggestion I won't consider is to put a pin through the creature and collect it ;

I like the split semi-symmetric composition. The colour of the leafy greens mimics the moth and makes a really strong image.