Yesterday's PAD showed a female Tiger Swallowtail - http://www.pbase.com/ed_k/image/101018779 - and today we've got the male. It takes time to finally get a shot where the critter is pointed the right way (they don't know how to pose). Even more to get it posed just right and fill the frame entirely with a decent composition (this is full frame - not cropped). Using the lens combo (Nikkor 75-300 with a teleconverter) where I could zoom to get the framing I wanted is an advantage over a prime lens since I could never predict just where in a range of 4-8 feet away the next opportunity would occur.
I was fortunate to get the subject-to-frame spacing just as I would have tried for had this been a static scene - the wings and the upper petals all fairly close to the frame without touching and an oblique line from upper left to lower right leads the eye from the main flower to the butterfly. I toyed with cropping a bit from the bottom but decided it added a colorful background and context.