Aporia crataegi - Black-veined...: Photo by Photographer Igor Siwanowicz

Photographer's Request for Critique

--Igor Siwanowicz

Celebration of wings

There is the season for Black-veined White (Aporia crataegi) in my area. I like the gothic elegance of those butterflies; pure form - no eye-catching flashy colours! View them LARGE please!

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Jim Hoffman , May 29, 2007; 02:23 A.M.

Excellent!! Greetings,Jim

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Javier López Echegoyen , May 29, 2007; 11:15 A.M.

Exellent!!

PERFECT!!!!!

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John Wright , May 29, 2007; 11:15 A.M.

I've never seen it's equal.

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Gerry Priest , May 29, 2007; 11:16 A.M.

Remarkable

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Josep M Llovera , May 29, 2007; 11:26 A.M.

Incredible! The white foreground gives the master touch.

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Morteza Khorrami , May 29, 2007; 11:30 A.M.

lool

Excellent .bravo

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Ilia Farniev , May 29, 2007; 11:36 A.M.

Very fine image, admire so much. Regards. Ilia.

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Peter Meade , May 29, 2007; 11:41 A.M.

This is a dlightful and delicate capture.

Peter

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Jan Piller , May 29, 2007; 11:56 A.M.

Wow again

gheesh I love your stuff.

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Atanu Ghosh , May 29, 2007; 12:19 P.M.

Wonderful composition and sharpness...superb image...

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Daniel Barrington , May 29, 2007; 12:22 P.M.

Excellent!

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Jason Edwards , May 29, 2007; 12:27 P.M.

What I can say! it's perfect. Regards J.E.

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Ann Garrett , May 29, 2007; 12:40 P.M.

Just stunning.

Ann :)

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Pulok Pattanayak , May 29, 2007; 01:12 P.M.

Terrific shot!

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Joao Pereira , May 29, 2007; 03:10 P.M.

Wooowwwww! Congrats

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Kenny Com , May 29, 2007; 05:06 P.M.

Nice work

I love it...!!! It is a very nice picture...!!! GREAT SHOT..!!! It looks like fairies on the branch...

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Inger Margrete Pedersen , May 29, 2007; 05:07 P.M.

Really beautiful:)

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Jonathan Sylvestre , May 29, 2007; 09:10 P.M.

This is one of the best butterfly photo i've ever seen. I can see that this photo is taken in a studio/unnatural setting. That explain the number and the position of the buterfly as well as the shadow on the background. It remove nothing to the photo !!

Congratulation !

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Leanna Weber , May 30, 2007; 01:02 A.M.

All I can say is WOW!!!

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Cherlyn . , May 30, 2007; 03:03 A.M.

Amazingly gorgeous in terms of subject, composition & tones.

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Mujahid Awais , May 30, 2007; 11:14 A.M.

E X C E L L E N T

G R E A T C R E A T I O N .

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Catalin Parpalea , May 30, 2007; 01:05 P.M.

Excellent!!

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Ellen van Deelen , May 30, 2007; 02:19 P.M.

How beautiful!

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Airi Pung , May 30, 2007; 06:09 P.M.

WOW is about all that comes to mind as well. Congrats!

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Daniella Puente , May 30, 2007; 07:44 P.M.

Just...perfect and wonderful!

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Jarek Wyganowski , May 30, 2007; 10:02 P.M.

Usually, I am not fond of insects, butterflies etc. but this one is outstanding. Great work, you nailed them all at once with a shallow DOF - very precise shot.

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Mike Nikolic , May 31, 2007; 12:47 A.M.

beautiful! just amazing, very well done, congratulations!

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Gunn White , May 31, 2007; 04:50 A.M.

Superb!

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Tatjana Adizes , May 31, 2007; 06:12 A.M.

Wow !

Stunning!

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Mehmet Akin , May 31, 2007; 06:13 A.M.

hello

excellent work..congrats

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Ceri Jones , June 01, 2007; 09:14 A.M.

Stunning image - I love the elegance and light in this picture. Perfect , well done.

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jill wells , June 02, 2007; 05:51 P.M.

I dont think I would ever tire of looking at this picture, it is beautiful.

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Kaupo Kalda , June 04, 2007; 02:47 P.M.

Wow

Excellent!

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MB Coral , June 04, 2007; 11:23 P.M.

..piekna robota Igor..gratuluje .. i publikacji tez.. ;]

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Louis Blair , June 05, 2007; 09:09 A.M.

Just magnificent,Bravo

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Ugur Atila , June 05, 2007; 12:43 P.M.

hi igor

Perfect harmony...

congs.

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Emmanuel Enyinwa , June 17, 2007; 09:37 A.M.

Simply stunning.

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David Alexander , July 03, 2007; 06:50 A.M.

All your photos are wonderful, but this one in particular excels. The gentle transition of the light, the perfect composition, the precise choice of shutter... bravo!

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GD Whalen , July 15, 2007; 07:53 A.M.

This is without question one of the most beautiful photographs I have ever seen. Super.

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Jana Vanourkova , July 25, 2007; 09:04 A.M.

wouw, the high key suits the image a lot. The best (graphical) butterflies I have seen. cheers Jana

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Janet Harper , August 31, 2007; 01:32 A.M.

7/7

Just beautiful. Keep shooting, Janet

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Rimjhim Brishti , August 31, 2007; 10:52 A.M.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!! 8/7

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Kris Jacques , October 25, 2007; 11:35 A.M.

Very impressed

Hi, This photo immediately captured my eye: it has a subtlety and elegance that is all too rare in most photos. The simplicity of the photo, the repeated clean patterns, the beauty of the insects, the soft backlighting through fog; it all comes together to create a work of art. And to top it all off, some action (the butterfly taking off). Well done!

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Jacqueline Roberts , October 31, 2007; 04:10 A.M.

You could look at it for hours...mesmerising!!!

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John Patrick , November 24, 2007; 07:27 P.M.

I kept coming back to look at it. Everything - backlighting, colours, DOF, focus, timing - all perfect IMO. Absolutely one of a kind.

John.

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Carolyn D ( Santa Fe) , December 10, 2007; 10:29 A.M.

Delicate

So soft,so gentle,almost dreamy a beautiful capture.

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sovan saurav , December 10, 2007; 04:28 P.M.

this is much more than dreamland.

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Melissa Hulla , December 20, 2007; 12:32 A.M.

Beautiful capture

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Darren Fitzpatrick , December 26, 2007; 06:10 P.M.

WOW, just stunning!!!

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Lennart. K.V. Bardal. , January 02, 2008; 05:59 P.M.

Splendid work - WONDERFUL.

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Tim Slater , January 08, 2008; 05:41 P.M.

Very very good. Featured in February Digital Photo magazine.

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Richard Haller , January 10, 2008; 05:31 A.M.

Lovely Image

But Photoshoped.

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Jon Gibbs , January 17, 2008; 10:52 A.M.

really beautiful composition - superb

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Subhasish Bhatta , January 26, 2008; 05:39 A.M.

Each & every eyes will pause a while on it. Wonderful.

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Erika Maresi , January 27, 2008; 09:56 A.M.

WOW

I have never seen a picture so delicate.

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katherine ayers , February 08, 2008; 11:29 P.M.

Black-veined White

Me, I would have left the top guy out of the photo altogether. He's missing the fragility you've captured in the others. Simplicity at its best. KSmith

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Serdar ÇALIŞKAN , March 08, 2008; 09:18 A.M.

beatifull

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Dave Travvel , March 08, 2008; 02:23 P.M.

A natural shot and beautiful the black lines of the butterflies the lines of the plant all beautiful!!!! :0

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Spencer Allen , March 09, 2008; 11:09 P.M.

Undoubtedly...

One of the greatest this site has seen.

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Lenaig Le Guen , March 27, 2008; 08:14 A.M.

Wahohhh!

This picture is absolutely incredible!

Top marks!

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Jeanette Haugs , April 05, 2008; 11:17 A.M.

Beautiful Melancholy

This is absolutly beautiful, absolut something I would put up on my wall!! I kinda remind me of one of daVinci's scetches of bugs, same delicate lines, the gray and warm tones. I think that the one on the top is the one that makes the image so special, how you can see the movement in the wings. Fabelous!

Mvh Jeanette H

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Luna M , May 02, 2008; 03:53 A.M.

perfect in details....

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N Gio , May 10, 2008; 03:57 P.M.

Great composition and details:)

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Faisal alanzi , May 17, 2008; 05:14 A.M.

i love it so much.

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G Dii , May 18, 2008; 03:11 P.M.

one of the best I've ever seen on photo.net!

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Miguel Chamorro , September 19, 2008; 07:23 A.M.

Belleza

Beautifull and good composition. Bravo

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Dianne Owen , November 02, 2008; 03:29 A.M.

what an amazing image this has a very creative viewpoint ot it. excellent work opped in my favs 7/7 di

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Margaret Woodall-Shark , November 06, 2008; 05:59 P.M.

Wow

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Steve Robb , November 06, 2008; 06:42 P.M.

Great capture Igor.

I agree, the sublety of their colour (or lack of!) is beauty in itself. Your DOF is great, and I think you've caught them on the perfect plant, the first thing I noticed was how the points of the thistle (?) seemed to mimic the veins in their wings, Very well done.

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Dror Baldinger , November 06, 2008; 08:29 P.M.

perfect!

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Ines Lojna Funtak , November 06, 2008; 11:53 P.M.

WOW! One of the best photos I have ever seen!!!!!

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Marina Situmorang , November 07, 2008; 01:36 A.M.

gorgeous! the most beautiful butterflies picture i've ever seen

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Dean Lozei , January 07, 2009; 05:00 P.M.

great

This is real art.

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Martin Zalba Ibañez , April 27, 2009; 06:41 A.M.

Fantastic!!

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Tim County , June 04, 2009; 10:13 A.M.

CONCRATULATIONS

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Stefka Roszczyn , August 18, 2009; 03:39 A.M.

!!!

Just perfect!

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Marc Sirinsky , October 01, 2009; 04:11 P.M.

Catalog use?

Hi there:

I'm a Picture Researcher for the marketing department at The Teaching Company in Chantilly, Virginia (USA). We're an electronic publishing company, working in the educational space. Our courses are typically produced on DVD or audio CD, and target life-long learners (mostly post-graduates.)

I'm interested in several of your images, including the above shot, for a catalog cover, and wanted to see if they might be available for licensing? The others I'm interested in are:

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4073927

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5112097

Please get back to me as soon as possible, so I know if these images can be presented as options to our team.

Thanks much.

Marc Sirinsky Picture Researcher I The Teaching Company 4840 Westfields Blvd. Suite 500 Chantilly, VA 20151 D.L.: 703-502-5730 Fax: 703-502-7307 sirinskym@teachco.com

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Yannik Hay , November 27, 2009; 07:06 A.M.

Hello, congratulations on this beautiful work of art! Beauty, elegance and simplicity. My only nitpik would be to clone out the top one with the blured wings, this I find reduces the rest of the work. Like Katherine Ayers, thought, above. Cheers!

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Rajkumar Krishna , March 08, 2011; 04:08 A.M.

Very Artistic and Stunning. Has an ethereal quality to it

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Pablo Fernández Ramil , April 07, 2011; 11:37 A.M.

:-O

Really nice !!!

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Trisha Jean-Angela , November 25, 2011; 10:01 P.M.

Stunning! Ethereal and elegant; absolutely beautiful! Excellent work! Thank you for sharing. :)

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Timo Hartikainen , June 30, 2012; 01:24 A.M.

Very nice.

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Allan Ross , October 16, 2012; 07:52 A.M.

Stunning

It's photos like this that proves my point " you don't need a mega$ camera to take great pictures, it comes from seeing" You have an artistic eye Igor.

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