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My Vanessa


My Vanessa
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Copyright: Mircea Costina (mirceax) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 231 W: 56 N: 1354] (6247)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-06
Categories: Insects
Camera: Nikon D50, Sigma 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG Macro
Exposure: f/13.0, 1/200 seconds
Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Romania butterflies [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-06-17 15:43
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Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 32
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) is a well-known colourful butterfly, known in North America as the Cosmopolite.
It is one of the most widespread of all butterflies, found on every continent except Antarctica. In Australia, V. cardui has a limited range around Bunbury, Fremantle and Rottnest Island. However, its close relative, the Australian Painted Lady (Vanessa kershawi, sometimes considered a subspecies) ranges over half the continent. Other closely related species are the American Painted Lady(Vanessa virginiensis), and the West Coast Lady (Vanessa annabella).
The Painted Lady occurs in any temperate zone, including mountains in the tropics. The species is resident only in warmer areas, but migrates in spring, and sometimes again in autumn. For example, it migrates from North Africa and the Mediterranean to Britain in May and June, but offspring produced there die in the Autumn.
Painted Lady butterflies are popular for many pre-school classes to raise in schools to demonstrate the life cycle of a butterfly.
The caterpillars feed on a wide variety of host plants of the families Compositae (especially thistle), Boraginaceae, Malvaceae (especially hollyhocks and dwarf mallow (Malva neglecta), and a number of legumes. The adults drink nectar from a variety of wildflowers and cultivars, more commonly the favored thistle, butterfly bush (Buddleia), asters, Tickseed sunflowers (Bidens) and zinnias.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
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  • bpy Silver Note Writer [C: 7 W: 0 N: 10] (207)
  • [2007-06-17 15:45]

hola
estupenda toma de esta vanessa, bien de detalle, luz y composición

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  • nglen Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2926 W: 34 N: 8678] (32334)
  • [2007-06-17 15:45]

Hi Mircea. a very good shot of the Painted lady.very good colour and detail with a nice POV and DOF.it is all set of well in the frame. what is the pinkish colour by the head ?
well done TFS. very good notes to.
Nick..

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  • batu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1062 W: 290 N: 3967] (13400)
  • [2007-06-17 15:55]

Hello Mircea,
a well composed picture and a sharply presented butterfly. The dark green background makes the orang-brown cardui stand out clearly.
Best wishes, Peter

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  • mikou Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 840 W: 67 N: 1311] (5269)
  • [2007-06-17 16:30]

Hi Mircea.
Beautiful composition with good upper POV pretty shows all good sharp details on full opened wings of this very nice butterfly.Well focused and good exposure with amazing contrasty colors.Dark BG worked here very well.Excellent macro!
TFS,with greeting Milos.

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  • Ken52 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 640 W: 98 N: 1241] (4189)
  • [2007-06-17 19:51]

I like the diagonal composition, the richness of the colors,the excellent detail, and outstanding exposure. DOF and framing also very nice.

Hello Mircea
Very beautiful butterfly image with wonderful colors, light and details.
Composition with the diagonall lines of the wings, sharpness and exposure are spot on.
Thanks for sharing.
Kind regards, Harry

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  • arfer Gold Star Critiquer [C: 2731 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2007-06-17 23:10]

Hello Mircea

A lovely composition of this beautiful butterfly.The focus and details are sharp.The colours are well saturated.Nicely done.TFS

Rob

Hi Mircea,
a nice picture with good details and nice colours.
The butterfly standout well from the BG.
And this time the BG is natural and very nice.
I like the compsition and POV too.
Nice work.

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  • manyee Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3068 W: 231 N: 6168] (21078)
  • [2007-06-18 2:05]

Absolutely gorgeous, Mircea.
Amazing details and stunning colors.
A beautiful diagonal presentation .
TFS. : )

Hi Mircea, excellent composition and colour in this shot of your Vanessa. You've nicely filled the frame with this diagonal crop. The colour saturation is excellent and you've made excellent use of your depth of field to isolate this butterfly from it's background (yet still pull in a couple of stocks for interest). The shot is crisp with excellent detail on the butterfly.

Thanks, John

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  • deud Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 440 W: 10 N: 504] (2372)
  • [2007-06-18 4:57]

excelenta imagine! superbe culori, compozitie buna. foarte reusit cadru. merci.

Bonita toma de la cardui. Bellos colores. Muy buen POV y DOF. Un saludo y TFS.

José Luis

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  • Juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2273 W: 10 N: 2661] (15669)
  • [2007-06-18 7:57]

Hola amigo,
precioso trabajo,
excelentes detalles y sensacional pov,
colores y presentacion estupendas...
saludos

hi mircea,
lovely capture, the painted lady has been captured with perfection here, the pov gives full details of the open wings & the lovely pattern on them, well saturated colour tones, nicely composed shot, sharp image with good details, the framing is simple & beautiful,
well done,
tfs & regards
pankaj

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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3604 W: 143 N: 5699] (18633)
  • [2007-06-18 13:39]

Hi Mircea.
Your Vanessa is beautiful as beautiful your picture. I like wonderful combination of colour palettes of the butterfly and of the BG. Composition. POV and DOF are outstanding as well as the reproduction of all features of this nice insect. Bravo and TFS. Perfect job.
Alexei.

Hello Mircea.

Excellent picture, very good details and colors.

Regards.
Jose Luis.

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