Flower-filled meadows full of fluttering Apollo butterflies surrounded Emelin’s family’s holiday cottage. Discovering the butterflies’ resting spot in wooded hills above the meadows, Emelin achieved his dream of photographing ‘the magnificent Apollo’.
Found at high altitudes across the mountains of Europe, Apollo butterflies are vulnerable to climate change because their life cycle relies on snow. Snow forms an insulating layer over the butterflies’ eggs, preventing them from freezing, which means that reduced snowfall can impact the butterflies’ survival.
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Emelin has been passionate about nature since he was a young child. Three years ago he got his first camera, which ignited his love for nature photography. He was attracted by small animals around home, spending hours photographing butterflies, praying mantises, springtails, salamanders and frogs. He tries to show them in an original way, with sunrise or sunsets, bokehs or unusual framing.
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