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Announcing a New Gallery at Alex Wild Photography: Honey Bees & Beekeeping
Over the summer I have been quietly creating a collection of photos related to beekeeping. Many of the photos are new and feature the IB 496 Bee class I’m currently teaching. Go see! Honey Bees & Beekeeping Pictures
A damselfly in natural light
My ambient light bug portraits are nowhere near as good as those by the amazing Rick Lieder. But I’m working on it. Here’s a coenagrionid damselfly: photo details: Canon EOS 7D camera Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens ISO 200, f/2.8, 1/800 sec
The death of career photography?
The New York Times on the changing face of the photography business: Amateurs, happy to accept small checks for snapshots of children and sunsets, have increasing opportunities to make money on photos but are underpricing professional photographers and leaving them with limited career options. Professionals are also being hurt because magazines and newspapers are cutting [...]
The growth of digital insect photography
Here’s a chart I made this morning. It depicts the number of new photos tagged “insects” or “insect” uploaded over the history of the leading photo-sharing site Flickr. Note that the graph doesn’t show the cumulative total of insect photos on the site; rather, it shows the increase from year-to-year. Thus, even though the rate [...]
And now, some arachnids
Arachnids (you know, spiders and mites and things) never had much of a presence in my photo galleries. While I could chalk their absence up to an obsessive focus on formicids, the reality is that I’m mildly arachnophobic. Photographing spiders makes me squirm, so I don’t do it very often. Oddly, it really is just [...]
Macromite reveals the secrets…
…to his spectacular SEM images.
The best insect photos of 2009
In 2009 the world’s macrophotographers- both amateur and professional- continued to capture breathtaking images of the arthropod microscape. I’ve been bookmarking insect photos from around the web that catch my eye, and after spending some time this week reviewing the candidates I’ve selected nine favorites. Wow. These are the images from fellow photographers that most [...]
Where to for National Geographic?
National Geographic remains the world’s premier showcase of nature photography. But I often wonder for how much longer. It is easy to maintain a virtual monopoly on high quality imagery when camera equipment and publishing are expensive and require a highly specialized skill set. But neither of these things is true anymore. Professional-quality photo equipment [...]
myrmecos.net is dead
Long live Myrmecos.net! By way of a replacement, the ant photos are now over at alexanderwild.com: Advantages of the new site include:
A personal blog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
