Butterflies in captivity

Shot this Magpie Crow in the Cameron Highland butterfly enclosure during my first honey moon. I remembered when I just started out on butterfly photography, I wanted to capture as many species as possible and have a large catalog which I can induce in self satisfaction. However, when I capture a shot of this Magpie Crow and compared it against those that I shot in the wild, this butterfly seems to have lost something. Freedom, pride or the will to live, I do not know. Every butterfly I shot in that enclosure seems to have this forlorn look. I could not bear to shoot anymore butterflies that day. It just seems so fake. Now, I rather have the satisfaction of shooting one butterfly in the wild then to shoot a hundred in an enclosure for tourist attraction.



Family : Nymphalidae
Subfamily : Danainae
Genus : Euploea
Common Name : Magpie Crow