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Ignore Me Please, I'm Just a Leaf


Ignore Me Please, I'm Just a Leaf
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Copyright: Robert Brown (Robbrown) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1305 W: 96 N: 2175] (6054)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-04-25
Categories: Insects
Camera: Nikon D200, Sigma 105mm F2.8 DG macro (SOLD), Digital ISO 400
Exposure: f/18.0, 1/160 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-04-28 16:34
Viewed: 759
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
A Brimstone Butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) doing what you might think impossible and hidding in plain site. This probably the brightest of the british butterflies, the top surface of the wings are an luminous yellow while the underside is a more gental yellow shade of green with lots of ridge like veins which along with the couple of brown spots make it look like a leaf when the wings are closed and it is not moving.
I had watched it land under this leaf, so knew where it was, or so I thought, and went to fetch the camera late on tuesday evening. when i got back it took me 10 minutes to find again so perfectly did it match the BG.
I think it was hopping to spend the night there but left when I tried to move the lower leaf to get a slightly clearer image.
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Crop to size
sharpen with USM
Hope you like it, it is one of the few that looks any good, me and the Nikon are not happy parteners yet.
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  • sily Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 252 W: 6 N: 391] (1859)
  • [2006-04-28 16:44]

Phenomenal mimic, it made me laugh! Wow you have a sharp eye, excellent photo! TFS!

Hello Robert,
excellent example of perfect camouflage of what seems to be a female of the Brimstone.
Very surprising to discover the solution in the full size picture. Definitely nothing to be seen on the thumbnail. Perfect title, well informing notes. Looking at the number of views, both the brimstone's camouflage and the message of the title seem to work very well - that picture deserves to be discovered by more than just a few.
You and your Nikon - you seem to be getting good friends.
Thank you, and best regards,
Peter

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