What a beautiful photograph of a beautiful creature.
I am almost 100% positive that you guys who do macro get the same feeling of joy out of capturing the macro world as much as I get out of capturing landscapes. It's all a means to an end, isn't it?
Well done. That's a corker of an image. Such beautiful soft colours.
That really sucks about having to manually remove the dust spots. Surely, you can send your camera in to Canon and pay to have it cleaned (despite how you may feel about their customer service)?
Regards,
Humayun