Blue Butterfly Canvas Monet and behind them the jungle

and behind them the jungle dissolves into a soft blur of light and shadow

a stately coconut palm reaches toward a luminous turquoise sky scattered with soft

where pale yellows

soft violet and deep evening blue ripple overhead

Blue Butterfly Canvas Monet and behind them the jungleA photographic close up frames a small wild butterfly resting on the forest floor, its wings the soft, powdery blue of a clear morning sky. A neat line of dark dots and a fine fringe edge each wing, while the slender body glows faintly green where the light strikes it. Behind, a pine cone and fronds of fern fall away into a richly blurred backdrop of moss and woodland brown. The shallow focus isolates the creature in crisp detail, capturing the