We saw at least four tiger swallowtails, first of the season for me, and this lovely female actually flew to the perfect perch and let me move carefully close to her.

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Compositionally Challenged has an "impressionistic effects" challenge this week, so I took several nature photos (making sure to include a sunflower-type photo) and ran them through funny.pho.to, choosing the "impressionism" effect under "sketches and paintings." I didn't like most of the results, but for the photos that gave decent results, I have uploaded both the original and the final results, in pairs. Some of the "impressionism" ones probably won't stay in my feed.

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The giant swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes) is the largest butterfly in the USA. I love the patterns on this butterfly's back and also the swirling pattern of the main coneflower, repeated on the second one behind it.

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On purple coneflower.

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