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Crashed


Crashed
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Copyright: Thodoris Limitsios (limier) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 259 W: 14 N: 235] (1031)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-05-15
Categories: Insects
Camera: Olympus C-50
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/80 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-05-24 3:54
Viewed: 1279
Points: 18
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
As I was shoting a Polyommatus bellargus in a beautiful field full of poppies I saw to the right something that trying to fly. I continue my job but something passed in front of me real fast and fell to the left.
And I saw something real bad. This butterfly,very difficult for me to identify because I am not so good under these circumstances,had the wings crashed.
Poor insect… we all know which will be the end of this butterfly
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  • phlr Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1241 W: 129 N: 881] (2814)
  • [2006-05-24 4:01]
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It's a peaty for it indeed. It couldn't expand the wings! That's why it has them like that. Of course it has very dificult to fly and sooner or later wil be catch by a predator.
It's a Satyridae, but I can't say the exact specie.
Great capture, but sometimes Nature has this rare momments of unfortunatly.
Very good POV, colours and details!
5* and TFS!

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  • batu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1062 W: 290 N: 3965] (13398)
  • [2006-05-24 4:36]
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Hallo Theodoris, you have met this Coenonympha pamphilus (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), the small heath, probably shortly after hatching. I think that it will be soon a prey of another animal because wings are severely affected. So you have just met this rare situation in a probable short life-time. Wing damage of this kind occurs when the freshly emerged butterfly has not yet inflated its wings and is disturbed during this process. You have captured a scene rarely documented. Nice that you decided to 'conserve' it.
Peter

Hi Thodoris,
Nice shot.
Good color, detail, and exposure here..
Colorful frame. I just wish you could have got a bit closer :)
Well done and TFS!

Hello Thodoris, excllent work, Great details, BG, POV, DOF, TFS Kyle

Yes, the poor creature seems to be in a bad way, Thodoris.
As Howard has pointed out, a closer look at its crushed wings would have given us a still better perspective on its condition.
Life is not always a bed of roses; that applies to all of us including this unfortunate butterly.

Hi Thodoris

Lovely shot with good depth of colour, POV and clarity. Nicely composed. Thanks.

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  • osse Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 962 W: 0 N: 89] (7801)
  • [2006-05-24 17:50]

Hi Thodoris
Good captured. Great colours, details, sharpnes, DOF and POV.
Well done

osse

Hi Thodoris,
interesting document you have taken. Details are fine, light and the colours are beautiful. I very much like the kind of feeling you show for the unlucky being.
With thanks, and best regards,
Peter

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  • PerR Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 21 W: 2 N: 16] (99)
  • [2006-06-13 15:36]

Hello Thodoris.
Really colourful photo. Well focused butterfly and a great coloured, blur background with perfect light. Very well done.
What could have happened to this poor little fellow? Looks as if its wings are burned.

Regards
Per

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