So as I mentioned, I went ahead and put together my best images of this year – or, as it really should be, my favorites, since no one is voting on these but me. However, this year was notable in that most of my images, by a wide margin, were arthropods (which I still call ‘insects’ solely for convenience.)
Author: Al Denelsbeck
Cut out for me
Alex Wild of Myrmecos (sidebar,) and Compound Eye at Scientific American, has announced that he will feature any “Best of 2012” sites from science & nature photographers in a post at Compound Eye. There’s already a nice collection of links, so check them out!
While I usually skip the whole “best of the year” stuff and rarely get engaged in rating my images, I figured
Humidity and challenges
So, The Girlfriend’s Younger Sprog had a volunteer engagement at the North Carolina Museum of Life & Science in Durham, so I tagged along to kill time at the museum, because I hadn’t been in a while. As you may have already surmised if you’re exceptionally quick, the museum has a butterfly house.
For a working nature photographer, such places can be nice, but not necessarily
…and part eight
And neither is this. In fact, it lost some of the lovely detail even reproducing it at this resolution. But I like it anyway.
Just because, part seven
Just a quick one before the day closes, an image I got this morning while trying (and failing) to capture a bird in a treetop illuminated by the first orange rays of the sun. I had turned towards the sun peeking through the trees and was dodging back and forth, hoping to find something perched that I could silhouette against the light. As I moved about, the nearby holly bush caught
An open letter
This post was fostered by an exchange on Panda’s Thumb and simply needs to be said. This is an open letter to everyone who might call themselves devoutly religious, creationist, conspiracy theorist, new age or alt med supporter, paranormal or psychic believer, and so on. Or anyone that has ever used the phrase, in any form, “Science doesn’t know everything.”
It’s simple.
The days of yore, part two
Okay, so, I had this idea a couple of weeks ago, to feature an image from the summer solstice on the day of the winter solstice – kind of a callback to nicer weather, and a reflection of that little archive list on the sidebar, right? Yeah, so, first, I had to stick to digital images, since over a decade of slides in my stock are only dated by the month and year I got them developed, so no
Minor updates
While I pay no attention to the news, I’m still hearing about the impending winter storms across much of the US, and this coincides with one of the posts from two years ago in the sidebar. So, while I was doing some of the year end updates on the calendar and such, I decided to add two pages to the Tips Gallery. Should you
Changing perspective
I just find this amusing. The Girlfriend, like probably 85% of the world’s population, isn’t terribly fond of bugs, most especially not the big ones. But she’s watched me pursue numerous arthropodic subjects, and still finds fascination in the details revealed from macro work.
The net result of this is seen here, what I’m fairly certain is an Acanthocephala declivis,
This one goes to twelve
Hey, I figure I had to post something precisely at 12:12 am on 12/… aw shit.