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Vanessa carye


Vanessa carye
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Copyright: petru damsa (petrudamsa) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 572 W: 77 N: 699] (2450)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2001-04-07
Categories: Insects
Camera: Minolta HT-SI, Minolta AF 35-70, 2X
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2006-01-07 4:21
Viewed: 1455
Points: 31
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
My today's post is not about a quality shot, nor an interesting or very original POV.
You may find lots of flaws in this photo, especially technical ones. Although on slide looks pretty decent, the scanning took a lot of the original quality and the postprocessing didn't add much.
There are many posts here with Painted Lady Butterfly (Vanessa cardui), way much better than this one. Well, you may say one more or less, the same well known and much posted butterfly.
Except this is not quite that one..

So I'll present you


Name: Vanessa carye
Western Painted Lady
Family:Nymphalidae

Looks similar with V. cardui. It is, like its cousin, a powerfull migrant but has a less widespread range: Central America, Mexico, Western US, from where migrates in Canada to the North and Argentina to the South.
I'm not gonna give a detailed description of this butterfly, but I'll invite you to check the workshop, to see the main differences between the two species; an identification that appeared to be difficult, became actually easy.

Why these two species look so similar? It's not about any kind of mimicry. They just emerged from a common ancestral species not long time ago, so they didn't have enough time to develop very specific characters.

Dave, red45, Active, marhowie, phlr, cedryk, Lourens, CTP, ellis49, chiliu, thistle has marked this note useful
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  • Dave Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 527 W: 47 N: 674] (2171)
  • [2006-01-07 4:45]

Great note Petru! Excellent workshop! All very educational!
And the picture? Not that bad!
Thank you Petru!
Dave

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2816 W: 75 N: 7977] (26975)
  • [2006-01-07 5:02]

Vanessa as you said yesterday :-) Very nice butterfly, colorfull and with good POV. Especially I like blue spots on its wings.

It's such a colourful insect in a clever composition.
Your POV and DOF is great.
Dark BG is also a great asset here to show the mix of vivid colours of the butterfly.
THx.

Hi Petru :)
fantastic colors and contrast. VERY WELL DONE :)
I like the details very much.
TFS :-)
have a nice weekend:)
Barbara

Petru - Leaving for Dallas, no time to comment, but well deserved :-}

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  • phlr Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1276 W: 133 N: 874] (2804)
  • [2006-01-07 8:16]

Very beautiful specie!
I didn't know about it.
Excellent colours!
Very nice POV!
Nice BG too!
TFS!

Hello Petru!
I love butterflies - they are plenty of colour- and your is the same. Thank you for a piece of summer.

Hello Petru,
This is a very good post with an excellent not and very informative workshop. Just a perfect approach. I like such posts I can learn from!
Best greetings from frozen Poland :-)
Michal

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  • Lourens Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 191 W: 0 N: 316] (1130)
  • [2006-01-07 14:32]

Interesting butterfly. Lovely colours. Nice work.

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  • klemmg Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 302 W: 40 N: 484] (1719)
  • [2006-01-07 15:50]

Excellent informative post, and the workshop is really great. Almost at a glance you see all the differences. Thank you very much for this excellent presentation!
Gabi

olá,
Great details, colours and POV!
well done!

Good picture!
Looks a lott like Vanessa cardui that we have in Europe.
Harm

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  • CTP Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 774 W: 6 N: 1107] (3183)
  • [2006-01-07 22:23]

Hi Petru,
Great Butterfly shot with great pov,dof,colors,note and frame.TFS
CT

Hi Petru,
maybe not the best quality but a vey good and infornative post. We all learn someting from it.
You did a great job.

Hi Petru,
Still a nice shot with great colour and detail.
Thanks for posting!

Superb post Petru!
Photo maybe isn't technically perfect, but still shows the most important things well. Thanks for the note and the ws a lot. This is all very interesting. Good to have people like you here.

VERY WELL DONE & TFS!

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  • RII Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 486 W: 0 N: 887] (2804)
  • [2006-01-09 3:33]

Hola Petru.
Linda foto, bonitos colores detalles nitidez, asi c mo tambien composicion y contrastes.
Saludos....RICARDO.

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