Experiments with lighting...
Some light painting with LEDs two years back....
My friend
Alisons hand whilst out walking in the New Forest. Experimented with the RAW exposure settings and shadows, turned a normal photo of someone taking a photo into this. I like it heh.
And on to various critters...
Corals in my marine tank whilst it was running...
And some insects from fieldwork. These were taken by sticking a closeup filter onto the kit lens of the camera and then sticking the camera onto the end of an eyepiece on a microscope. A lot of my work last summer involved looking at the various bugs caught in pitfall traps and identifying what they were to order level. Occasionally there would be things that looked different or cool, and I had my camera on hand...
Juvenile Beetle...order Coleoptera
A true bug(Hemiptera) with two ticks (Acari) attached - poor sod
http://www.zpyder.co.uk/images/zoom/insects/viewsize/bugtick2.jpgThis one I took with my camera phone. It was Autumn and the dragonflies (Order Odonata) were dying off, this guy was on the path on my way to uni. Ive got the tendency to carry specimen containers and lab gloves in my bag now just in case theres something interesting passing by, so took him to uni for the Entymological collection...
This one of the same Dragonfly, using the cameraphone, but sticking it up next to the microscope lens. it was only low power, but it shows the complex compound eyes these guys have...
A little diddy wasp (Hymenoptera). Hymenoptera include Bees, wasps, and ants. For some reason theyre one of my favourite orders. This guy, under the microscope, was probably 3mm long or so.
I still occasionally keep a mantis or something...this was the latest one, and African mantis. Unlike the others Ive had this one was a bit more skitzy and didnt like to be handled much. This is the first time Ive seen such defensive behaviour in a mantis, Ive seen flaring of wings but not the bearing of fangs before...
This is her in normal mode...a lot less scary...