Common Satyr Indian

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• pankajbajpai (15405)
• [2007-10-02 22:08]

hello mr thakur,
so nice to see you after a short break, i really miss your shots these days, this is a fine capture, i have never seen this species here, liked the pov and the composition, the light on the leaf creates beautiful effect,
well done,
tfs & regards
pankaj

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• anilnediyara (710)
• [2007-10-02 22:28]

Hello Sir,
Nice looking butterfly. You have photographed it well under difficult lighting conditions, sort of patchy light, but it has come out well. TFS
Regards
Anil

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• peter_stoeckl (9613)
• [2007-10-02 23:05]

Hello Ram,
a pleasure to see that fresh picture from you - and from the Indian mountains! The angle of light does a wonderful job here to shape the wings, and the composition shows dynamic tension. Beautyful freshness of air in that capture. The butterfly looks very familiar to me as we have the very similar Aulocera circe flying in the hills next to Vienna.
With thanks, and wishing you all the best in settling down in your new hometown New Delhi,
Peter

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• red45 (27387)
• [2007-10-02 23:23]

Hello Ram!

Good looking butterfly. I like side view with well wisible wings. Interesting colours with black BG and white, diagonal strip on it. Composition is also quite good.

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• ddg (5061)
• [2007-10-02 23:37]

Bonjour Ram, very nice shot with beautiful relfects on the wings (no pollution at 8000 ft!!)and a perfect sharpness on it too. Good composition and I like the piece of web to the right bottom corner. Congratulations, Didier.

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• batu (11586)
• [2007-10-03 0:20]
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Hello Ram,
thank you for this nice life picture of Aulocera swaha. It is well focused and shows the wing colour pattern in detail and with natural colours. In most text books the species is figured only as pinned speciemens. An exception is found in "Smith C. (1989) Butterflies of Nepal".
Data on the species are really poor. There are obviously several subspecies. In Nepal it is recorded between 2300m and 4000m. Flight period is from mid August to October. The species prefers sunny places in forests.
Best wishes, Peter

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• smurali (3466)
• [2007-10-03 1:27]

Ramthakur, The diagonal composition of the picture and out of focus background makes this butterfly to stand out. It looks more like a moth, considering the amount of hair and the size of the wings than a butterfly. But the differences are very little. In any event, this is a lovely capture.
- Murali Santhanam

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• gannu (12410)
• [2007-10-03 1:29]

Ram Sir, Yes I agree things do work slow. I was wondering what had happened to you since no word from you. Nice to find your shot and as usual very nice with regard to POV/Frame focus/lighting and composition. Ganesh

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• JORAPAVI (10221)
• [2007-10-03 2:11]

Hola Ram,
Preciosa toma de esta bella mariposa, excelente definición y textura. Esperamos que te pongan pronto la conexión a internet para seguir disfrutando de tus fotos, Saludos
José Ramón

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• cataclysta (4850)
• [2007-10-03 3:03]

Hello Ram
Interesting butterfly shot. Nice light. Quite good composition with plant. Good sharpness and nice homogenous buckground
Best wishes
Krzysztof

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• Alex99 (15899)
• [2007-10-03 3:04]

Hi Ram.
I like the pictured subject so much. It is very beautiful and skillfully composed. I have never seen this species. It is fine and you managed to reflect it perfectly with all details. Lighting is very impressive. Pictorial BG is wonderful and harmonize with main charming subject very well. Thanks for so refined work. My best wishes and TFS.
Alexei.

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• marhowie (35921)
• [2007-10-03 5:35]
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Hello Ram,
Very nice macro!
Excellent color, exposure, contrast, DOF, POV, details, and diagonal composition..
I did a WS to try and improve on this great post.
Very well done.
Howard

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• undoredo (2740)
• [2007-10-03 5:59]

Hi Ram,
This is an another nice shot of Aulocera swaha from you. They only occur in high ground? Its orange colour of the antenna is impressive to me.
Excellent POV and DoF, blurred BG is also lovely.
Well captured and TFS, Ram.
Best regards,
Kevin

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• fartash (10341)
• [2007-10-03 7:53]

Hello dear Ram
What agreat shot of this Common Satyr,
Great focusing,lighting and DOF,Welldone.

Good Luck
Fartash

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• jaycee (17043)
• [2007-10-03 9:28]

Hi Ram,

A wonderful view of this lovely butterfly. The deep colors and the wing patterns are beautiful. Nice diagonal composition with a good background. Hope you get connected soon.

Jane

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• SunToucher (9394)
• [2007-10-03 10:00]

Hi Ram,
I am gald you made an exception to misuse your work PC to show us this beauty. I do hope that your internet connection will be up and running soon. BTW, how is your new home? Are you enjoying it?
The photo is a very beautiful one, especially the lighting in the b'fy is wonderful. It brought out some of the stunning details and colors. The diagonal composition is very good, and the spider web creates a perfect effect to the depth of the photo.
TFS,
Niek

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• Maite (5132)
• [2007-10-03 10:00]

Hello Ram!
What a marvellous capture of this curious and beautiful Satyr. The pattern on its wings is very well seen as well as their nervure. I like a lot those orange tips on the antenae and the blueish fuzz on the basis of the hind-wing.
Excellent sharpness and a good diagonal composition with that beautiful herb.
Congratulations, dear friend.
Greetings
Maite

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• Bufo (4241)
• [2007-10-03 13:51]

Hello Ram,
this is beautiful. The reason why, for me, is that it is technically allright, but also there is a lot to see in the picture. The light coloured twig with the darker satyr match perfectly well. I like this one.
Regards, Jacob

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• jeanpaul (13903)
• [2007-10-03 18:56]

Salut Ram
Elle est tres bonne cette composition avec ce papillon extra, bon BG bon détails et bellescouleurs
bravo merci du partage...JP

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• haraprasan (13492)
• [2007-10-04 1:36]

Hi Mr. Ram,
A beautiful capture of this satyr butterfly. Nice composition and good details. Very good POV too. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Sincerely
HP

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• cicindela (7514)
• [2007-10-04 3:48]

Hi Ram!
I really do not like to write "I'm just marking, I'll be back" but during these days (the beginning of new academic year here at the university) there are more that more work to do. So I am really sorry for these words :)
According to your picture I have to say that I like it because of few things. The first one is that the butterfly is not very colourful, yes, because it is not so colourful :) It is simply non-commercial as for me. And that is realy good - nature does not include only colourful species. Anyway, the quality of picture is really nice. Very good sharpness (I can see spider web in the corner), DOF and POV.
TFS and my best regards from Lodz,
Radomir

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• Silke (5406)
• [2007-10-04 8:28]

Love the colours in the antennae!
Great details, superb composition
TFS
silke

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• eqshannon (22854)
• [2007-10-04 16:37]

Well done and Identified Ram.....Focus not problem of course and nice angle to the butterfly. Colorings of course are as is seen and as is naturally. Very good then. I hope you have better luck with your connections soon. I can only imagine with all other problems..now this..Is this any way to retired?
Bob

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• smitha (3551)
• [2007-10-06 8:40]

Hello Sir,
This is a real beauty you have got this time to delight us with.:)I am not familiar with this species. Beautiful picture with excellent control of light, captured with good sharpness and details.
Thanks for this lovely butterfly shot,
Smitha.
I wish you get your Internet connection soon. I really miss your pictures nowadays.:)

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• Argus (26072)
• [2007-10-07 6:49]

Hello Ram,
This is a real beauty, one that I missed after my operation. Everything is right here: the sharpness, colours, composition, BG and lighting. You present this Common Satyr superbly!
Well done and thanks for sharing,
Ivan

I hope you are settling down in your new home in Delhi

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• cedryk (5072)
• [2007-10-07 16:47]

Hello Ram,
Long time no see :-)
Very nice diagonal compo with chilly colours. Almost good DOF, althought the aperture could be wider to blurr the background completely.
Anyway, a great shot.
Best greetings & TFS!
Michal

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• Mana (17302)
• [2007-10-08 20:02]

Hi Ram,
Very beautiful butterfly which I see for the first time. Wonderfully captured in a classical pose. The smooth BG and the diagonally positioned green leaves enhances the beauty of the shot. Superb lighting and expsoure. Excellent POV and very nicely composed. Kudos.
TFS.
Sumon