Colour Challenge: Butterflies
I know I have used this photo before, but I decided to post it again anyway.
Why? Well, I was told, in several cryptic messages through unusually secret channels, that this butterfly has The Special Colour.
This could mean that my becoming a member of that esoteric group of people who have posted a photo that contains this elusive colour, the name of which we only dare whisper among close friends, is imminent.
Olympus XZ-1, 112mm, ISO100, f8, 1/125s
This ticket to my immortality on Steemit is called a purple emperor (Apatura iris), grote weerschijnvlinder in Dutch.
We now know it isn't purple at all, but that other colour we post about on Saturdays. It only shows this colour under certain angles, like this earlier photo demonstrates:
Olympus XZ-1, 112mm, ISO100, f5.6, 1/80s
What do you think? Did I get the colour right? And if so, what more need I do to join The Worshipful Company of Indigo Photographers?
Nice one. Beautiful iridescence.
Now that you have reached such great and dizzy heights what is left to achieve. I fear that you photography will no longer bring joy and fulfillment :-) Perhaps you could move along in the spectrun in search for infrared and ultraviolet :-)
Most cameras can actually see IR. You can try it with your TV remote. I'm not going there, though 8-).
Maybe it's purple, but it could be an indigo too. It's a really amazing color :)
Purple? Purple? It's INDIGO!
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Just kidding, of course.
O my god! I did not expect this! Neither in joke. If you say so....
It is very much a joke 8-).
It's beautiful
Butterfly 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋
nice color and beautiful butterfly and yes you can join the The Worshipful Company of Indigo Photographers, if you continue with such high quality pics.
Awesome captured sir...
I am learning from you..The technique/concept and compositions are awesome...
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@ocrdu nice picture!
Thank you.
Beuatiful butterfly.
Nice shot
Beautiful!
It's prismatic, right? like a dichroic electrolytic colour effect on iridium foil? I love prismatic effects. In butterflies and similar, these are actually microscopic little hairs made of a specific protein that provides the visual properties.
For the non-dutchies, the proper way to pronounce the duch name is:
Veer Shine Flinder. The word Weer means weather or power/force, and schein means 'showing or making obvious'. Pardon my bad spelling.
It is. No dyes in butterflies 8-). Well, not many, anyway.
BTW "weer" in this case is short for "weerom" meaning "return" or "back", "schijn" means "shine" or "emit light" here, but can also mean "seem" or "appear". "Weerschijn" is an old Dutch word for "reflection".
It's a miracle we Dutch understand each other 8-).
ah! So my 'translation' wasn't too far off.
Yes, it's not a dye, it's tiny little prismatic hairs made of something that bends the indigo light strongest in one direction.
Dichroic iridium (there is other metals that can be electrolysed to yield this effect also, I believe) is not a 'dye', the electrolytic effect causes tiny prisms to form that reflect one colour in one polarity and another in the other. Its similar but different, in principle, to how holography works, as well as the many materials both natural and manmade that produce the 'fairy rainbows' effect.
Unfortunately, this is also why butterflies keep their colours when they're dead, so many are still being killed for decoration rather than research.
Fortunately butterfly chasers are hardly the biggest threat to butterflies. More dangerous is neonicotinoid pesticides (and pesticides and shit like glyphosate) in general, and though there is dispute about this, I believe that beehive collapse is being caused by the proliferation of mobile phone towers, whose EMF output is squelching the schumann resonance that regulates their biochemical processes, which depend on it for correct timing. Living things have sometimes up to hundreds of different clocks for each organ and some even for distinct processes, and when these biochemical synthesis processes happen out of order, they can cause infertility, cancer, and all kinds of issues like this. Thus bee colony collapse. And the epidemic of impotence, infertility, cancer, heart disease, and most everything that kills people these days. Then the chemicals contribute further to already weakened immune, circadian and endocrine function.
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