This photograph was taken long before I began creating in the digital darkroom. This was taken when I captured with my camera. At the time my concerns and focus was with the relationship of positive to negative space, perfection and for visual tension in my viewfinder. The opposite colors of the orange monarch works beautifully with the purple Scaevola plant…and then, while processing the raw file in Photoshop CS5, I experimented with the sumi filter and created my personal interpretation! This was a place I never went before and I discovered that I can do more than capture. It was so liberating. Creatively, I was all-a-flutter…not to be confused with my All a Flutter portfolio that can be seen on this website.
