

The Portico Gallery, Knights Hall, 23a Knights Hill, West Norwood, London, SE27 OHS
Spectrum
A collection of sixteen wildlife photographs taken by Dulwich resident Paul Collins
11am-6pm Saturday 12th - Sunday 20th May 2012

04. The Butterfly Nest
Normandy, France
2oth June 2011
This photo is part of an evening shoot that I did one evening last summer with one of my favourite European butterflies, the marbled white. Our field had transformed into a summer meadow full of daisies and thistles which the butterflies loved to feed on - and, as I was soon to find out, sleep on. By half past ten, everything was asleep, including this one which had made a 'nest' within the daisy's petals. I didn't want to disturb its rest, so I used a bit of kitchen paper to diffuse my bright flash. It was a lovely scene to have stumbled upon.