Butterflies are the spirits of nature, they have colorful colors and light postures. When butterflies with bright colors and elegant postures flapp their wings and flutter among the flowers, this scene always evokes a beautiful feeling in people's hearts.
There are about 14,000 butterfly species worldwide, and the butterflies we see today have evolved over more than 25 million years. Since ancient times, the ancestors have loved this beautiful and light elf. At the Hemudu cultural site, which dates back about 6,000 years, archaeologists have found a large number of butterfly-shaped ornaments. Although the love story of "Liang Zhu Hua Butterfly" has no historical basis but is just a folk legend, it has also been sung by people to this day, and "Double Flying of Butterflies" has become the spiritual sustenance of young men and women when pursuing love without results. In the Dali region of Yunnan, around the 15th day of the fourth lunar month, there is a folk custom of "butterfly meeting", during which people watch flowers and butterflies, talk about love, or invite friends to gather, and more single people pray that they can meet their sweethearts on this day. It can be seen that in people's concepts, butterflies also have the symbol of "love messengers".
In a large number of Tang poems and Song poems and other forms of literary works, the figure of "butterfly" can be seen everywhere, "all things are not as rich as flowers, only butterflies flow in a spring", in the Song Dynasty monk Shi Xinghai's poem "Spring Tour", the butterfly's graceful posture of fluttering and dancing among flowers is vividly presented in front of our eyes. And the allusion of "Zhuang Zhou Mengdi" has given these elves a strong psychedelic color.
Mountain yellow butterfly. This picture is a photographic work in "Lost Butterfly", which comes from network resources.
Butterflies, beautiful and fragile, have a mysterious atmosphere, they can always easily evoke people's vision of beautiful things, and they show their beauty in a variety of gestures in the works of artists and photographers.
"Lost Butterfly" is a photographic album compiled by the famous French photographer Yan Lei for taking the butterfly specimens he collected and sorted out for 40 years.
Speaking of Yan Lei, I'm afraid everyone will not be unfamiliar. The photo album "Yesterday's China" is his work. He was the first Western photographer to enter North Korea, published four books on Photography of China, and was awarded the Order of Knighthood by the French Parliament in 2005.
In addition to his status as a photographer, Yan Lei is also a butterfly specimen maker. At the age of eight, his encounter with the naturalist and naturalist Father Paul allowed Yan Lei to see the amazing beauty of butterflies. Since then, Yan Lei has followed Paul to learn how to catch butterflies and how to make specimens, so that he can observe butterflies more closely and learn a lot about butterflies, and feel the amazing beauty of nature's creation. When he was young, Yan Lei had not yet put on a camera to become a photographer, and he was convinced that he would become an expert in butterfly research out of his love for butterflies.
Later, he traveled around with his camera, capturing one scene after another with his lens, using his camera to record the wonderful wonders of nature again and again, in Yan Lei's own words, "the fleeting beauty is captured and fixed into an eternal story."
This is one of the values of photography. Through the lens of the photographer, we can feel the beauty that is fleeting and will no longer be there after it is gone.
Pointed-winged blue glittering butterfly. This picture is a photographic work in "Lost Butterfly", which comes from network resources.
If you count from the age of eight, Yan Lei has been associated with the bow for more than forty years. The photographic works included in this "Lost Butterfly" are close-up photographs that he carefully selected from the butterfly specimens he produced and collected. In these photographs, each butterfly seems to be a mystery that is difficult to solve, because we will be fascinated by the colorful patterns on their wings. We don't know how much effort the Creator took to create such unparalleled beauty. Butterflies have an extremely short life cycle, but fortunately, their beauty has been given eternal life under Yan Lei's lens.
The wings of the butterfly shine with metallic luster, and the blue wings occasionally flash purple and green light. Its wings are covered with scales of various shapes, and when light shines on these complexly structured scales, it produces brilliant rainbow-like colors. Although Yan Lei's photographic works only capture specimens of glitter butterflies, it is not difficult for us to imagine the gorgeous scenes when they fly in the sun by looking at the wings of the glitter butterflies in the photo.
The mountain yellow butterfly, which belongs to the genus Leptosphorus in the family Pink Butterfly, is known for its bright yellow wings, and the central part of the male's forewing is dark orange, and the center of the hindwing has two small dots of dark orange. Yan Lei uses super macro photography technology to present us with the wing structure of the mountain yellow butterfly, and the details that are usually not observable by the naked eye can be perfectly presented in the pictures taken by Yan Lei.
Two-tailed tiger butterfly. This picture is a photographic work in "Lost Butterfly", which comes from network resources.
As a species of large butterfly, the black-banded golden phoenix butterfly has a very high ornamental value. The black-belted golden butterflies under Yan Lei's lens are colorful and beautiful. Although it is only a specimen, its beauty is not compromised. The bright yellow color is paired with a deep black to reveal a light texture.
It is mainly distributed in South America, and the whole body shows a white luster. The dense scales on the wings of the white butterfly will produce physical effects such as refraction and reflection when it meets light, so it will change into a colorful and brilliant effect. Flocks of white glittering butterflies flew by like stars. In the photo, we can clearly see the brown spots arranged on the hindwings of the white glitter butterfly, and other details need to be discovered by ourselves.
The chalky translucent Apollo silk butterfly is also a large butterfly. The Apollo silk butterfly in Yan Lei's lens falls on the purple-red flower bud, which contrasts strongly with the gray-white wings. In another photo, the Apollo silk butterfly rests on a branch, and the whole background is a fresh green. The agility and slenderness of the butterfly and the vitality of nature are perfectly expressed, so that after watching, the body and mind seem to relax.
The butterflies that Yan Lei photographed were breathtakingly beautiful. Just by admiring his photographs, we can feel the strong spring feeling that comes to us. From a photographic artistic point of view, he was successful. However, Yan Lei photographed these butterflies not only to show their beauty and magic, but also to evoke our respect and respect for beauty and nature.
In the preface to this photographic album, Yan Lei said bitterly that when he revisited his hometown now, he found that "there are only a few flying elves left in his childhood." As a person who has been in contact with butterflies and loves nature since childhood, Yan Lei also uses this photographic album to appeal: don't let more species face the crisis of survival, love nature well, love other creatures, this is also to let more beautiful things stay in the human world.
"Every butterfly is a love sentence that has been folded and folded into pairs", Yan Lei said in the preface that he does not remember who said this sentence, but I think that as long as it is the person who sees this sentence, it will feel particularly warm!
Multi-tailed anchovies. This picture is a photographic work in "Lost Butterfly", which comes from network resources.