My Fair Painted Lady
by Sharon McConnell
Title
My Fair Painted Lady
Artist
Sharon McConnell
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art, Photography, Photo Painting
Description
A Painted Lady butterfly sits atop a pink zinnia in the summer garden. I added digital textures and color to my original photo for artistic enhancement.
The Painted Lady (V. cardui) is a large butterfly (wing span 5-9 cm (2.0-3.5 in)) identified by the black and white corners of its mainly deep orange, black-spotted wings. It has five white spots in the black forewing tips and while the orange areas may be pale here and there, there are no clean white dots in them. The hindwings carry four small submarginal eyespots on dorsal and ventral sides. Those on the dorsal side are black, but in the summer morph sometimes small blue pupils are present in some.
The American Painted Lady (V. virginiensis) is most easily distinguishable by its two large hindwing eyespots on the ventral side. Virginiensis also features a white dot within the subapical field of the forewings set in pink on the ventral side, and often as a smaller clean white dot in the orange of the dorsal side too. A less reliable indicator is the row of eyespots on the dorsal submarginal hindwing; virginiensis often has two larger outer spots with blue pupils. The black forewing tips have four to five white spots; usually the largest is whitish orange.
Copyright - Photograph by Sharon McConnell, Stardust Imaging Photography
Digitally edited, adding texture and lighting adjustments.
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Maria Hunt
A special work needs a special feature. Love the elegance of this capture and the stunning background.. f/l
Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p
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