The idea of working on this website came quite early to us. Since we were already members on a Think Quest Project on butterflies (Living Fairies) , we decided to take up this challenge to put our work of past one year in to this website. We initially thought to limit our team only to Bangalore (the TQ project started here) but after consulting with our teachers we decided to expand the scope to several other regions of our country (North East India and North India). We also requested Ms Orny (Rome) to help us to gain knowledge on butterflies found in Europe. Elena provided us some valuable inputs to be included in our website. However due to winter at Europe we could not manage to spot many butterflies there.
The Team comprising of six students from Bangalore, Ambala, Guwahati and Rome collaborated with their original butterfly photographs and video artifacts to make this project a comprehensive research work. We need to mention on point here that our photographs and videos were taken by small amateur Digicams (Sony, Canon and Samsaung). We had to run after butterflies for hours to get a good snap. We tried to select only the best photographs out of hundreds of photographs that we managed to take.
We very well know that there has been a lot of work done by professional and amateur butterfly photographers and the reference is readily availabe on Web. In our project we included only those butterflies that we managed to capture on our camera. We could capture more than 30 species of butterflies and limitted our research on these butterflies only.
Our main effort was not only to study the butterflies but also to motivate students of our school to learn more about this jewel of nature. We also tried to convey the message that if one study the butterfly, he could come close to the minute details of nature.
The majority of the work was completed and compiled at Bangalore, where we had students who could actually design the website with better knowledge and understanding of web designing. |
