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The peacock pansy


The peacock pansy
Photo Information
Copyright: Satya Mishra (kunusatyabbsr) Silver Note Writer [C: 8 W: 2 N: 71] (328)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-04-28
Categories: Insects
Camera: Cannon EOS Rebel XTi, Canon 100 - 400 L IS USM
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/60 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-05-02 1:27
Viewed: 548
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
This photograph is dedicated to Suman Da for his extreemly beautiful collection of insects.He has unknowingly developed the intrest for butterflies inside me.


DRY SEASON

Upperside rich orange-yellow. Fore wing with a pale dusky and a much darker short transverse bar with lateral jet-black marginal lines across cell, another somewhat similar bar defining the discocellulars ; costal margin, an inner and an outer subterminal line, and a terminal line dusky black; a large minutely white-centred ocellus with an inner slender and outer black ring on disc in interspace 2; two similar but smaller geminate subapical ocelli with an obscure pale spot above them and a short oblique bar connecting them to the black on the costa. Hind wing: a small minutely white-centred and very slenderly black-ringed discal ocellus in interspace 2, with a very much larger pale yellow and black-ringed ocellus above it spreading over interspaces 4, 5 and 6, the centre of this ocellus inwardly brownish orange, outwardly bluish black, with two minute white spots in vertical order between the two colours ; finally postdiscal subterminal and terminal black sinuous lines.

Underside ochraceous brown, very variable. In most specimens the ceil of the fore wing is crossed by three dark sinuous bands, the outermost along the discocellulars ; these are very faint in some ; both fore and hind wings crossed by a basal and a discal pale sinuous line, the latter margined outwardly by a dark shade, which is traversed by an obscure somewhat obsolescent row of dark spots, and outwardly bounded by a subterminal sinuous line, the dark shade in many cases spreading on the fore wing to the terminal edge of the wing ; on the hind wing the subterminal line meets the discal in an acute angle at the tornus. Antennae dark brown; head, thorax and abdomen more or less orange-brown ; paler beneath.
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Hi Satya Babu,
A nice capture of this peacock pansy. Superb details and an excellent composition. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Cześć Satya.
Bardzo dobra kompozycja, i piekny motyl.

Hola Satya, una bonita mariposa, nitida, con buen color y luz. Buena composición, con un encuadre acertado. Un saludo

Great job, Satya!
This is a butterfly very dear to me. In my opinion, it is the mopst beautiful of all Pansies seen in India.
Your image of it is sharp, clear and colourful.
The specimen, fortunately, is without blemish.
May I extend you a belated welcome on TN?
Well done and keep shooting.
Ram

Hi Satya, Beautiful open wing capture of this Pansy. The lovely details are seen so well by your fine work. Well done and welcome to TN. tfs Richard

Hello Satya,
Welcome you to TN for sharing!
This is a very fine closeup of the Pansy and the image is sharp with good colour and superb details
well done and many thanks for the sharing
from NZ, Tony

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  • [2008-05-03 5:37]

Hi Satya,
This is an outstanding shot of the Peacock Pansy and I feel so honoured by the dedication. In fact this is one of my favourite species and the bright orange colour pleases the eyes so much. Immaculate sharpness and colours with precise DOF which isolates it from the BG perfectly. The lighting and exposure levels are great here and I like your parallel POV to portray it. It actually pops out from the screen. Great work and thanks again. Very nice composition. Kudos.
TFS.
Sumon

Hello,
Great shot of this beauty! The only one thing that is no perfect is high level noise but you can remove it by any noise killer software ;-)

Chris

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