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Papilio machaon...

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sent on August 16, 2025 (18:03) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Beautiful!
Hello, Alessandro

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sent on August 16, 2025 (18:03) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Gorgeous Macro !!

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sent on August 16, 2025 (18:14) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Thank you! It is one of the former caterpillars found in parsley two weeks ago. Three had puped on 4/8 and flickered yesterday. Two on 5/8 and one flickered today. All of them took exactly 11 days: Swiss precision. Only the last one is late.
In mid-August I didn't think I had to go and free and photograph macaone, but I'm not complaining. :-)

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sent on August 16, 2025 (20:04) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Congratulations.
Have a nice weekend

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sent on August 17, 2025 (10:39) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Thanks, Have a nice Sunday. :)

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sent on August 17, 2025 (11:03) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

I believe that a smaller aperture would have helped to give you a better reading both on the wing end to the left of the observer, as well as on the wing end towards the tail to the right of the observer, always taking into account a correct parallelism

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sent on August 17, 2025 (12:02)


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E' vero, ma come chiudevo il diaframma cominciavo a perdere lo sfocato. Non che con una focale più lunga sia più semplice mettere tutto a fuoco con un singolo scatto perché bisogna trovare la perpendicolarità migliore possibile, ammesso che per l'appunto le ali siano ben aperte e parallele. L'altro ieri, quando ho scattato questa foto, sono uscito con il 105mm. Ieri mi sono portato il180mm e pur chiudendo fino a f13 lo sfocato era quasi un colore uniforme.
Questa mattina, nuova uscita, nuova liberazione e nuove foto ma stavolta con il Laowa 100mm, così li ho provati tutti e tre.

Secondo me, nonostante una focale lunga faciliti non poco lo sfocato, il doversi allontanare complica il riuscire a trovare la posizione ideale, cioè quella perpendicolare. Bisogna cogliere il momento giusto perché magari la farfalla sta quei 5 secondi con le ali ben spiegate e poi comincia a richiuderle, se poi non ci si mette pure il vento come oggi.

Più semplice fotografarli di profilo e con le ali chiuse ma che succede se si tenta di metterne due nella stessa inquadratura come accaduto ieri dato che ne avevo a disposizione un paio? Succede che per quanto i neo-sfarfallati siano docili, non si allineano a comando. Se li si fa salire in cima a un fiore, per istinto tendono ad accaparrarsi il posto migliore spintonandosi finché uno dei due non cede e va magari a sistemarsi sul gambo, completamente disallineato rispetto all'altro. Comunque, con un po' di tentativi ci si arriva al doppio allineamento ad ali chiuse.

Per la stessa cosa ad ali aperte ci vuole un po' di fortuna. Sorriso Questa è la migliore in coppia che sono riuscito scattare (l'esemplare sopra è il primo, questi sono il secondo e il terzo):





Diaframma mediamente aperto ma anche chiudendolo cambiava poco: erano ormai in movimento. Impossibile metterli d'accordo.




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sent on August 17, 2025 (15:41) | This comment has been translated

Marvelous

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sent on August 17, 2025 (22:57) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Wonder of pastels

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sent on August 18, 2025 (10:47) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Thank you. A fleeting perfection just like the very existence of these butterflies that live a couple of weeks in adult form. The rain of these days, for example, may have immediately changed the appearance of the wings.
I am always reminded of the words of Leonard Nimoy written in a message a few days before his death: "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory".
But not to be too poetic I add that being a butterfly does not necessarily mean crashing immediately. Some, like the vanesses, live for a year. 8-)

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sent on August 18, 2025 (17:00) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Undoubtedly it is not easy to achieve perfection with one moth, even more difficult with two especially considering the temperatures existing even early in the morning. However, the proposed photo of the couple is not bad at all.

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sent on August 18, 2025 (19:56) | This comment has been automatically translated (show/hide original)

Thank you. :)
For the record, today the last specimen "of parsley" came out of the chrysalis. I released it immediately without photographing it, partly because I didn't have time and partly because three consecutive days of photos of macaones can be enough. :-o :-)


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