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Jewel of the grass
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Hi all,
This is my second picture of "Grass Jewel", smallest butterfly of India , which is when full-grown a little over a quarter of an inch in length!.
This more a picture from direct light, in which you can see more of details on the wings and the butterfly it self. I could not avoid the grass stalk in the BG :-(, but still like this picture as its more natural.
About
The Grass Jewel (Freyeria trochylus) is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.
Description
Male upperside: brown, somewhat variable in tint. Specimens from dry localities are much, paler than those taken in areas with a comparatively heavy rainfall.
Forewing : uniform, with a very ill-defined anticiliary dark line in some specimens. Hind wing: a subterminal series of round black spots crowned with pale ochraceous, the posterior four spots generally well defined and outwardly edged with white, the anterior spots obsolescent and without the interior edging of yellow or the outer edging of white; a well-marked, slender anticiliary black line. Cilia white, basal halves brown.
Underside: pale silky brown. Forewing: with the following white markings:—a short line on the inner and outer sides of the discocellulars ; a transverse, slightly curved, discal series of small, more or less incomplete rings; a transverse postdiscal series of disconnected slender lunules; a subterminal series of similar but more regular lunules and a terminal broken line, followed by a dark unbroken anticiliary line; the groundcolour between the two short discocellar lines, that enclosed within each ring of the discal markings, and between the sub-terminal lunules and the terminal line slightly darker than on the rest of the wing. Hind m ing: two short white lines on the discocellulars ; the discal, poatdiscal and terminal markings as on the fore wing, except that enclosed between the subterminal series of white lunules and the terminal white line is a complete series of dark spots, the posterior three or four jet-black sprinkled outwardly with metallic-green scales and encircled with pale ochraceous. In addition there are a transverse subbasal series of four white-encircled black spots and a similar subcostal spot in middle of interspace 7. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen brown, the shaft of the antennce speckled with white; beneath: palpi, thorax and abdomen white.
Female upperside and undersides : ground-colour and markings as in the male, but the latter larger and more clearly defined; on the hind wing the yellow crowning the black spots on the tornal area on the upperside and surrounding the same on the underside, wider and more prominent. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male.
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freyeria_trochylus
Hope u like it.
TFS,
Goutham R |
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Goutham, this is a truly fabulous shot!
The brown tone to the entire picture including the BG is something that makes this picture such a pleasure to look at.
I too wish that other stalk was not within the frame.
The picture is technically top class.
Thanks and all the best.
ram
- valy67
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(8733) - [2009-01-15 23:14]
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Hello Goutham !
Wow, this is an awesom shot of the buttefly ! I like everything in it - the nice and sharp details, the warm brownish colors, the composition, the POV, the pose of the insect, the blurred BG... The wings of the butterfly look so soft and smooth, you managed to capture their textures brilliantly. Very well done !
Valerie.
Your second capture is also very nice Goutham, the pattern and colouration characteristics are pleasantly more prominent now and that grass stalk provided a second diagonal for the composition. I decreased the brightness (exp.) slightly and made a slight increase in saturation to render this small creature even more prominent, hope you don't mind my friend...
Cheers,
Mehmet
Hi Goutham,
A nice capture of this beautiful grass jewel. Superb sharp details and a lovely composition. Thanks a lot for sharing.
helo Goutham!
a beautiful species this tiny Freyeria trochylus,well captured in a nice pose of the grass..
greetings sERGIO
Hello Goutham
WOW! This is terrific.We have some very small butterflies here I really need to get a macro lens.The focus and detail is superb.
Excellent DOF ,the OOF BG is lovely.
The markings and scale texture shows well.I am impressed.
Great job.
TFS
Wolf
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- joey
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Another great shot of this tiny Butterfly.
Very sharp with loads of detail.
Superb parallel POV.
Very good DOF.
Well done,
Joe
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Hi Goutham,
I like the way you have composed the picture using the other stalk,it adds on to the image, good background & sharpness, little more brightness would have helped [as I see on my screen].TFS.