The aesthetics of the wings has always seduced us. In the case of birds, it is their plumage of slight beauty that dazzles us, and we are fascinated to contemplate each feather separately and keep it as if it were a treasure. Something different happens with butterflies and their iridescent wings: their beauty can only be appreciated as a whole.
Wanting to grasp a little more of that territory of exotic patterns and explosive colors that is every butterfly’s wing, photographer Chris Perani used macro photography to capture its microscopic details. For this he used a microscope, attached to his lens, which magnifies the image 10 times.
In this way, Perani allows us to discover an aesthetic hidden in the wings of butterflies: a territory full of textures like velvet, tiny almost transparent hairs and juxtaposed colors.
Faced with these images, all that remains is the certainty that the aesthetics of nature has many degrees of depth. A depth that we do not yet know in its magnitude.
If you want to see other perspectives of this depth, you can also see Linden Gledhill’s photographs, which show that butterflies are not as fragile as they appear to the naked eye.
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