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These take-off shots are even more challenging because they require a wide-angle lens, which means he must be less than 2cm from the butterfly.

这些起飞镜头更具挑战性，因为它们需要用广角镜头，这意味着他必须离蝴蝶不到2厘米。

Peters’ signature shot is a butterfly “take-off”, showing the multiple wing-beats of one butterfly in one frame as it lifts off from a flower. How does he capture it? Technology helps. A typical digital SLR camera shoots 20 frames a second. He uses a high-speed OM System which shoots 120 frames a second.

彼得斯的招牌镜头是蝴蝶“起飞”，在一帧画面中展现一只蝴蝶从花朵上起飞时的多次振翅。他是如何拍到的？技术帮了忙。一台普通的数码单反相机每秒拍摄20帧，而他使用的是每秒可拍120帧的高速OM System相机。

That makes it sound easy, and artificial, but Peters insists it is still a massive challenge. He typically takes between 10,000 and 20,000 shots to get one butterfly take-off sequence in focus. At such high shutter speeds, the depth of field is tiny, and as butterflies do not fly in a straight line they swiftly flutter out of focus. As well as thousands of attempts, it takes patience and fieldcraft to anticipate a butterfly’s likely flight-line — and catch it — in focus.

这听起来既简单又人为，但彼得斯坚称这仍是一项巨大的挑战。他通常要拍一万到两万张照片，才能得到一组对焦清晰的蝴蝶起飞序列。在如此高的快门速度下，景深非常小，而且蝴蝶并不沿直线飞行，很快就会扑腾着飞出焦点。除了成千上万次的尝试，还需要耐心和野外经验来预判蝴蝶可能的飞行路线——并在焦点内捕捉到它。

So what’s the appeal of a long, sweaty day in pursuit of an elusive, fast-moving wild animal? “It just feels bloody brilliant,” says Peters. “If I’ve had a full day of good encounters with butterflies, met interesting butterfly people and I’ve got some good shots, that becomes a vault in my spiritual bank. It’s a happy feeling.”

那么，花上漫长而汗流浃背的一整天去追逐一种难以捉摸、行动迅速的野生动物，吸引力何在？“感觉就是棒极了，”彼得斯说，“如果我度过了与蝴蝶美好相遇的一整天，结识了有趣的蝴蝶爱好者，还拍到了一些好照片，那就成了我精神银行里的一座金库。那是一种快乐的感觉。”

He captured the first-ever shots of iconic landmarks such as the Tetons, Old Faithful and the Colorado Rockies.

他首次拍下了提顿山脉、老忠实泉和科罗拉多落基山脉等标志性地标。

Derek Jarman’s yellow-tinted film Towards Avebury, a collection of long, mostly still shots of the Wiltshire landscape, evokes a tradition of English landscape painting stretching from Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash.

德里克·贾曼的黄色调影片《走向埃夫伯里》由一组威尔特郡风景的长镜头组成，大多是静止镜头，它让人想起从塞缪尔·帕尔默到保罗·纳什的英国风景画传统。