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Butterfly Sleeping on a Stem
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About this clip
The soft focus and natural grain of the footage evoke a nostalgic, cinematic feel, capturing the delicate texture of the butterfly's wings and surrounding greenery. This serene moment highlights the quiet beauty of nature, with rich foliage and subtle movement in the breeze. Ideal for nature documentaries, environmental content, or nostalgic visual storytelling.
Clip Intelligence
- Production use
- Fits nature documentaries, environmental brand campaigns, and Colorado wildlife reels where editors need a slow-motion butterfly closeup over dense summer foliage, with no people or branding in frame.
- Edit role
- The first 12 seconds of unoccupied foliage can serve as a transitional texture or background beat, while the final 8 seconds showing the butterfly at rest work as a contemplative cutaway or natural closer.
- Visual details
- Bright green broadleaf foliage fills the entire frame throughout, with small scattered red flowers or berries in the background; a large dark-winged butterfly with open wings rests on the leaves from approximately 0:12 onward, and no people are visible.
Shot slate
- Resolution
- 4K UHD
- Duration
- 18s
- Codec
- H.264 MP4
- Location
- Colorado, United States
- Year filmed
- 2019
- Published
- Oct 2019
Still Frames From This Clip
2 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.
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