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Painted Lady 2
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Copyright: Jacqueline Schnepp (Noisette) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1250 W: 2 N: 1236] (3911)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-07-16
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon EOS 350D, 55-200mm f/4-5.6GED-IF AF-S DX VR Zoom N
Exposure: f/9.0, 1/1000 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Painted Ladies [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2009-07-17 12:58
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not far from my house, is a flowering Bush and since a few days, it is full of butterflies, the most of them are Painted ladies but also Large whites, european Peacocks and rarely, Meadow browns
it was a very hot day, some of them are in the full sunshine and others in the shadow, it was not easy to adjust my camera proprely

Painted Lady
( Vanessa Cardui )

The Painted Lady may be the most widespread butterfly in the world. It also known as the thistle butterfly and the cosmopolitan (because it is so widespread, occurring in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa). This flying insect lives in temperate and some tropical areas.
Egg: The Painted Lady begins its life cycle as an egg that is the size of a pin head. Eggs are pale green with 12 to 14 longitudinal ridges; they are laid on thistle, mallow, or hollyhock leaves. The incubation period is 3 to 5 days.

Caterpillar (larva):

The caterpillar eats continually for 5 to 10 days before it pupates. The yellow-green striped, purple to black caterpillar has long spines on each segment. The caterpillar is up to 1.25 inches (3 cm) long. It builds a silky, webbed nest as it feeds, usually eating thistle, mallow, malva, hollyhock, sunflower, or canola. As the larva grows, it sheds its skin (this is called molting). The time between sheddings is called an instar; each instar has slightly different coloring.

Chrysalis (pupa):

When the caterpillar has grown to the right size, it pupates. It hangs upside-down from a leaf or branch, and attaches itself with a single silken string. An adult forms from the caterpillar, whose internal structure changes completely. The chrysalis becomes almost transparent when the butterfly is about to emerge. An adult will emerge about 7 to 10 days after the chrysalis has formed.

Adult:

When an adult emerges from the split chrysalis, it hangs upside down and pumps blood into its four wings, inflating them.Then it waits for its delicate wings to dry. It can fly a few hours after emerging.

The adult Painted Lady is mostly black, brown, and orange with some white spots; the underside is gray with white and red markings. The adult has a 2 - 2 7/8 inch (5.1 - 7.3 cm) wingspan. Adults sip sweet thistle and clover nectar. Adults can mate in about a week after

emerging;

adults only live about 2 weeks.

Migration:

Adults from colder parts of North America overwinter in Mexico; adults from northern Europe migrate to North Africa and southern Europe.

Classification:

Order Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), Family Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies), Genus Vanessa, Species cardui.

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  • siggi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1370 W: 56 N: 4704] (16174)
  • [2009-07-17 13:21]

Hello Jacqueline,
a delicate, colorful and pleasant picture. Nice pose, great BG and POV. The lady above is elegant, and you did a great to show us her looks.
Best regards Siggi

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  • lousat Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1977 W: 6 N: 5525] (19661)
  • [2009-07-17 13:32]

Saut Jacqueline,on a vu la reine de cette saison dans tous les galeries des memebres de TN....mais ta photo est vraiment unique! Un point de vue et une position vraiment revolutionnaire...et quelle nettete' et grane qualite' des couleurs!! Mes plus gros compliments pour ce fantastique travail,bon weekend,LUCIANO

Hola Jacqueline,

Great shot with nicely positioned painted lady in addition to very natural colors, great sharpness and soft background. Wonderful sharpness of the facial part of the butterfly.
Over all, a great composition. keep it up the good work!

Have a nice weekend ahead.

greetings,

Paras Bhalla

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  • cirano Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 651 W: 0 N: 228] (4878)
  • [2009-07-17 14:36]

Slav Jacqûelîne,
This is first class close up.Wonderful composition with nice colors and positioned butterfly.Great sharpness and details.well done!
Thanks for sharing.Have a nice evening.
Dûrzan

Hello Jacqueline,

An excellent capture of this butterfly with brilliant colors, fine details & sharpness. Well done.

Merci beaucoup ... bon soir!

Umar

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  • tcr Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 76 W: 0 N: 224] (866)
  • [2009-07-17 17:21]

Hello Jacqueline.
Very pleasant colour in this picture.
Great composition, background, POV.
Well done.
TFS.

Great POV, Jacqueline.
The Painted lady seems to have a great time on lantana flowers -- the favourites of all butterflies.
The colours and details on the lower wings are beautiful.
Thanks and regards.

bonjour Jacqueline

cette photo du papipplon je la considère comme l'une de tes
plus belles photos, également de TN, car elle est completement
différente des autres photos de papillon, excellent POV et
cadrage j'aime la pose acrobatique du papillon
avec le vide que tu as laissé comme espace au bas,
excellent focus netteté et détails, belle luminosité,
encore une fois l'une des plus belles photos de papillon,

TFS

Asbed

good morning Jacqueline
with a litted up beautifully scene and composition with the very good pose of butterfly,colors details clarity very fine,a great capture from you
TFS thanks for sharing
Nasos

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  • tuslaw Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 501 W: 20 N: 1381] (4827)
  • [2009-07-17 22:18]

Hello Jacqueline,
Gorgeous image of one of my favorite butterflies!!
Perfectly composed with outstanding detail and very natural colors. Well done!! Very informative notes!!
Ron

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  • degani Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 220 W: 0 N: 317] (2481)
  • [2009-07-17 22:24]

bonjour Jacqueline,
you give us a beautiful portrait of a beautiful butterfly, a picture full of detailes and with great colours, at the same time delicate and "eterea", brava
kind regards
franco

Hello Jacqueline,
Very fine focus and an excellent background. I also like the composition a lot. The bush is Buddleia which is also known in England as the Butterfly Bush, as it attracts so many nectar-drinking species. Thanks.
Alan

What a lovely shot! You've chosen an excellent pose, very unique!
Bravo!
Goldy

Hi Jacqueline,
A nice capture of this beautiful painted lady butterfly. very well composed with sharp details. Thanks a lot for sharing.

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  • Juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2261 W: 10 N: 2629] (15559)
  • [2009-07-18 1:18]

Hola Jacq.
Excelente captura,
bonita escena y colorida,
buen foco y pov.
saludos

Hi MF Jacqueline, an awesome macro shot of this painted lady from a great POV with excellent clarity and nice composition.
TFS and have a nice WE!
Cheers,
Bayram

Ciao Jacqueline, delicate elegant composition with lovely vanessa on a beutiful flower against a wonderful blurry BG, splendid natural colors, superb sharpness and fine details, very well done, brava, have a good week end, ciao Silvio

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  • zetu Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 645 W: 15 N: 1577] (6149)
  • [2009-07-18 4:08]

Hello Jacqueline
Nice close up with beautiful colors and great details.
Regards
Razvan

Hello Jacqueline,
a wonderful picture of the Painted Lady taken from an excellent POV, very good sharpness and splendid colours.
TFS
Have a good weekend
Ciao Maurizio

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  • Argus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3808 W: 190 N: 11328] (34927)
  • [2009-07-18 7:39]

Hello Jacqueline,
A fine capture of V. cardui taken from a great POV to show its closed wings with excellent sharpness and lighting on the budleia flowers against a blue sky.
Thanks and have a good weekend,
Ivan

Jacqueline,
You "LIVE" in the land of butterflies!!!
How marvelous.
It is a true delight to view your work.
Always presented with ELEGANCE & GREAT TASTE.
Loved your notes... quite educative.
Mario with greetings from Canada.

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  • thor68 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 792 W: 138 N: 1312] (5642)
  • [2009-07-18 10:21]

What a great capture of the pretty butterfly! :-) it seems it is "Painted Lady"-season at the moment, especially as i was lucky
to capture a couple of them too.*g* nice horizontal composition with good colors and sharpness. well done & best wishes, thor.

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  • zulfu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1053 W: 0 N: 162] (866)
  • [2009-07-18 13:26]
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Hello Jacqueline, wonderful close-up shot of this beautiful butterfly with nice composition.
TFS and G's,
Mehmet

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  • Luis52 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1110 W: 5 N: 3457] (12761)
  • [2009-07-18 13:58]

Hola Jacqueline.
Beautiful colors in thei lovely Macro.
Great work.
Luis52.

Excelente luz y original encuadre Jacqueline. Captaste a la Vanesa con toda su belleza. Bonita fotografía.
Saludos: J. Ignasi.

Bonjour Jacqueline,

Les bons résultats obtenus dans des conditions de lumière. J'aime la composition unique, le POV est également excellente, a bénéficié d'un coin inférieur.

Quand je suis face à ces excès de luminosité du sol de compensation d'exposition -1 / 3 et parfois même de -2 / 3, quel que soit l'angle d'incidence de la lumière. Habituellement compensée en utilisant des vitesses d'obturation plus élevées et de l'ISO restent faibles. Je crois que dans ce cas, vous avez fait quelque chose de similaire, tout en maintenant une norme ISO 400.

Excellent travail, j'aime la profondeur que vous avez obtenus et a une bonne flou.

vous avez bon dimanche!

Jesús

Salut !
On voit beaucoup de Belle-Dames sur TN, ces derniers temps, mais cette photo est vraiment unique et originale ! La pose du papillon, suspendu tête en bas au bout de la branche fleurie, est magnifique. Le ciel bleu fait un formidable BG. Les détails, les couleurs, la composition sont excellents. Félicitations !
Valérie.

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  • foozi Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1339 W: 0 N: 2569] (9065)
  • [2009-07-19 16:07]

Hi Jacqueline,
nice pose and also exciting downward position by the butterly.
the sharpness and clarity is very lovely with the flowers seen in great details.
The patterns on the wing is very special and pretty.
well presented and moment well depicted.

Regards.
Foozi

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  • demeve Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 603 W: 11 N: 1627] (5989)
  • [2009-07-19 16:25]

Hello Jacqueline,
This is a very beautiful lady! Very elegant butterfly with nice
colors.. Well done

Everton

Hello Jacqueline,

Another excellent photo of this wonderful butterfly.
Natural colours with fantastic details.
Lighting and composition are splendid.
Good composition.

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  • anel Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1722 W: 0 N: 3901] (15676)
  • [2009-07-20 4:44]

Bonjour Jacqueline,
Une composition originale et belle montrant la magnifique Vanesse du chardon. Contrairement à l'année dernière on la voit très souvent, en plaine comme en montagne. De belles couleurs naturelles et un angle de vue contre le ciel bien choisi.
Je te souhaite une belle journée
Anne

Hi Jacqueline,

Awesome capture of this upside down butterfly with great details. Very sharp and nice image. Very nice composition

TFS,
Kedar

hello Jacqueline
super composition with great sharpness and beautiful colours
super!!
greeting lou

Ciao Jacqueline. Real lovely lighting compo. Perfect DOf and detail. Very well done.

Roberto

Hello Jaqueline,

very nice composition fromt this butterfly in your garden.
Fine natural colours and good dof.
Yes the Painted lady are this year with many come from Africa to Europe.

Gert

Bonjour again,
Although I prefer butterflies with opened wings, this is one of Your best insect shots, with absolutely great composition and excellent DOF, not to mention sharpness and colors. A real beauty, captured in a wonderful way. Top class photography. Bravo Madame.
Merci, best regards, László

Hi Jacqueline!

What a detailful and colorful shot! I also like the "rotated" pose...
TFS!

Best regards,
Andor

Hello Jacqueline
elegant composition of vivid colors with beautiful flowers, fine details and great sharpness. Exposure and light are optimally balanced on the Vanessa.
Livio

Hi Jacqueline,
Not an easy photo to capture but you have done extremely with with the position as well as sharpness. Superb details on the butterfly and flower against a undisturbed BG. Well done!
erwin....

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