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Vanessa was shy about getting in front of the camera, but opened up throughout the shoot, and was pleasantly surprised by the results.
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Explored July 9, 2024
6/28/24 - Vanessa Collier @ Riverbend Live, Riverbend Park, Winston, Oregon USA
A painted lady butterfly at rest on the bank of a salt pan in Olhao. Whenever there was a wind blowing hordes of these butterflies came in off the Ria Formosa, possibly migrants from North Africa. This one was in good condition, but most of them were very badly worn.
I spent most of the journey from Edinburgh to Glasgow trying to get this shot: not only did it involve shooting at 1/20sec handheld in a moving car, I had to wait for another car to overtake, as the light on Vanessa's face is light from another car's headlights reflected in the wing mirror as that car passed.
I read in New Scientist that the illusion of apparent motion - such as you feel when a train moves away from a platform which you're standing on - is called vection. A study carried out at Aberdeen university, involving probing the daydreams of undergraduates staring at a screen where stars appeared to move towards them, giving forward vection, showed that these daydreams tended to involve thinking of the future. When the stars moved away from them, giving backward vection, they tended to involve thinking of the past.
The effect is amplified by real movement, such as we experienced here. I wonder, then, whether Vanessa was thinking about her future.
Glasgow, 2011.
Vanessa cardui is a well-known colourful butterfly, known as the Painted Lady, or in North America as the Cosmopolitan. This butterfly has a strange pattern of flying in a sort of screw shape.
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Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)
Papilionoidea▸Nymphalidae▸Nymphalinae▸Nymphalini
Painted lady (EN), Distelfalter (DE)
Photo captured in the wild, under natural light, in Austria.
Another picture of this beautiful butterfly, resting on a garden chair in Diever, Drenthe, The Netherlands.
This photo was taken using an M.Zuiko 40-150mm f/2.8 Pro lens @150mm.