DEDICATION TO FILMING BUTTERFLIES Beauty of insects is revealedin three- year project
A DEDICATED wildlife photographer has spent three years amassing images of the UK’s most beautiful butterfly species.
Andrew Fusek Peters, 54, has captured the series of colourful shots after studying the behaviour of butterflies since 2017.
The incredible photographs show 17 species of the insects in full flight or taking off from flowers across Worcestershire and Shropshire.
He says he took over 150,000 frames to achieve his unique collection and believes he is the first person to shoot such a variety of butterfly species.
His images include the painted lady, green hairstreak, marbled white, silver studded blue, red admiral, dark green fritillary and Essex skipper butterflies.
Mr Fusek Peters, from Lydbury North, Shropshire, said: “It’s been a real labour of love. It’s
I took over 150,000 frames to produce these 24 shots. Andrew Fusek Peters, wildlife photographer.
no exaggeration that I took over 150,000 frames to produce these 24 shots.
“I’ve spent three years studying the behaviour of UK butterflies and working to capture them in motion. It was worth the effort to show their incredible delicacy and beauty in flight.”
He added: “I shoot at 50 frames per second. I haven’t got them in a studio, I’m out in the wild and I’m able to get up close and personal.
“My favourite is the brimstone because of its beautiful, buttery colour.
“They say the word butterfly from Old English comes from the colour of the brimstone.
“I shot it taking off from a flower and you can actually see the shadow of the proboscis, which it uses to drink nectar from a flower.”