When Three May Be Better Than One

There were no submissions this week for “Photographer’s Choice” so rather than let a week go by with no new posting, I’ve looked through some of the many excellent member submissions and selected the above to share. It is of course a montage of images captured on an active summer day when butterflies were busy visiting the colorful thistle. Each of these could stand on its own but sometime judicious cropping and arranging can create a more compelling image. This may be the case here. The colors are vibrant, the creatures are captured at different angles and the backgrounds are so similar that arranging the three in an attractive layout works extremely well. Allowing one image to extend beyond its “boundary” creates a different look and perhaps adds interest.