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Butterfly 3


Butterfly 3
Photo Information
Copyright: Mark Parsley (mortcdz) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 940 W: 150 N: 840] (5407)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-08-14
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon 300D, Sigma 150mm 1:2,8 APO Macro DG HSM
Exposure: f/5.0, 1/60 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Silver Tulip Award [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-09-19 12:33
Viewed: 326
Points: 18
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Apologies for anyone who's bored with pictures of butterflys, but for my money they are a particular area of joy when it comes to photography: they have a wonderful range of shapes, colours and textures and represent a challenge to photograph (when they are free flying that is - not difficult to photograph a dead one!)

This is a Lime swallowtail (Papilio demoleus), which is a little bit of a strange name as unlike other swallowtail butterflys this one doesn't have a pronounced tail. Its perhaps the most widely distributed swallowtail in the world and it's range covers the middle east, pacific islands, China and India.

PP Work - crop, resize, USM (20%) and added the border.

I'm not entirely happy with the composition, but unfortunately in the original there is a metal post to the right which won't clone out nicely.
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To Mitra: Thanksmortcdz 1 10-06 07:16
To tomek_wap: Thanksmortcdz 1 09-21 12:02
To NecipP: Thanksmortcdz 1 09-20 09:20
To ttreen: Thanksmortcdz 1 09-20 09:18
To jmcl: Thanksmortcdz 1 09-20 07:36
To Micalittacard: Thanksmortcdz 1 09-20 07:35
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To kvrnkiran: Coincidencemortcdz 1 09-20 07:15
To JohnTulip: Expectationsmortcdz 1 09-19 13:23
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Hello Mark very nice quality excellent exposure and crispness to the detail well composed tfs rgds Necip.

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  • ttreen Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1567 W: 118 N: 3550] (14211)
  • [2007-09-19 13:21]
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Hi Mark
This is a new one to me... very amazing shapes and details.. I love the crisp black on the butterfly... Darn that post... I'm always amazed what I do not see until I upload!

Comp works for me:)

Tricia

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  • jmcl Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 261 W: 4 N: 204] (656)
  • [2007-09-19 14:12]
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Hi Mark,

Beautiful colors .. I love the focus from wing tip to antenna .. very nice.
The blacks contrast well against the greens.

take care,

John

Hi Mark!
Que bonita mariposa!
La nitidez es muy buena, y los colores están estupendos!
Congratulations!
Mical*

Superbe ce papillon . Les ailes ouvertes me font apprécié ses couleurs précises et jolies.. Réal.

Mark do not worry to much about the quality, we do see a lot worse ! Than.. being a little hard for yourself is a good thing; we have to keep telling ourselves it always can be better( goes for me too ) I like your buterffly, welldone
and yes , sunsets and butterflies are hot items here *__*
Just looking to your photo:
Excellent!! and forgot to mention yesterday..but I add
'The Silver Tulip Award'
one of the best in his sort!

Kind regards
JohnT
* tomorrow

Hi Mark,

Wow!! What a co-incidence. We both found the same kind of butterflies. This one looks better than what I took. Lovely DOF and colors. TFS.

Kiran.

Nice shot.
Good colours and detail, sharpness is great.

Tom

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  • Mitra Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1445 W: 75 N: 810] (7204)
  • [2007-10-03 19:01]
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Beautiful composition, colors,details & sharpness.Well done.
Mitra

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