No cropping on this image!

I’d never seen one of these butterflies before, and nor had the couple walking the towpath in front of me…then we saw another about ten metres away! Extremely well camouflaged (probably why we’d not spotted them before) they were the only two I saw all afternoon.

This isn’t a new image in that it was taken some time ago (maybe 18 months) on a cold, frosty day in Gent. I’ve chosen it, and the title, for a couple of reasons. I love how the leaf is a miniature tree in it’s own right.

I love taking photographs at night…that may seem to be an oxymoron, photography meaning ‘writing with light’ and there not being much light at night…but the accumulation of light over time can give some quite surreal results — and then you can help it along a bit by introducing artificial light.