Butterfly

This is right out of the camera...no pp. I shot in jpeg L and raw. What would you do to improve?

Colors are lovely, but it doesn't look pin sharp to me. Just a teensy shame the flower obscures the butterfly, but that's probably being picky! I wish I could get shots like this!

Simply stunning!

Love it. I'd sharpen it a bit, though.

The petals of the flower obscure the lower parts of the butterfly, so much so that the beauty / of the butterfly is lost.

If you could have worked this subject for a few minutes before it flew off, perhaps you could have positioned yourself so that the butterfly's legs, antennae, "nose", and lower portion of the wing would not have been obscured at all; making for a more powerful image.

Bonus points if you could do all that plus still manage to line it up so that only the darker green would be in the background (the background on the right side of the image is quite nice, the background on the left side is much less attractive).

I think I'd boost saturation a bit, and as others have said - sharpen.

I tried lowering the brightness, increased contrast, and sharpened with the unsharp mask in photoshop elements and it made quite a differance. I think it helped it to pop.