This is just a handful of pics and video clips from the summer that I stalled on, and finally got back to when I needed to keep the post count up. Nothing exciting here, but reasonably successful macro videography anyway.
I recall it being during the sweltering season, so even at night I was sweating just standing there, but the air was reasonably still, which was good because all the action (I use
To me, this one just all came together nicely. The complementary colors of course, but the V-shape of the line of blossoms and the fernlike leaves working the corners, the short range of sharpness, and the position and lighting on the sweat bee just worked. A certain amount of this was serendipity, since I had only a moment to frame things while the bee was present, and was mostly
I’ve mentioned before (probably too many times) that I switched over to Linux Mint several years ago and have been largely happy with it. Far more stable and problem-free than any version of Windows that I’ve used, completely free of forced upgrades and intrusive or proprietary horseshit. There was a learning curve, certainly, especially with getting the MIDI keyboard working on it,
Hoo boy. The period that I’ve reached while going through the folders for the ‘Living in the past’ posts was dominated by arthropod photos, and while I actually produced new content yesterday, it was by visiting the butterfly house of the Museum of Life and Science, not to mention that I’ve got some
I like this one for how vague it is, but dislike it for not getting the detail that I wanted while still having too much. Do I sound neurotic, or just spastic?
But okay, the explanation. First off, this is winter 2015, and shows something that I heard about and always wanted to try, but we rarely get the necessary conditions at this latitude. You’re seeing a soap bubble in the process of freezing
This is another taste of how much the internet has changed things. We go back to 1986 and a movie called Band of the Hand, which I saw in theaters and happened to like (reviews are quite mixed but, you know, listen to reviews only when you can’t form your own opinion.) I’m not here to go into the film, but a particular song therein, which had a very brooding sound, enhanced
This is an examination of not just an occurrence in my past, but the powerful mood that it invoked, and still invokes whenever I think about it. I’m not sure that I can possibly explain it in such a way that anyone else can come close to the same feeling, though.
It was, I think, 1999, and I was on an extended photography trip to Florida, touring where I pleased with no real itinerary. Several
…or just 18, or 12 perhaps (geek alert.)
Still working on 2014 right now, and we have this startling capture when photographing a variable oakleaf caterpillar (Lochmaeus manteo.) The light angle and the translucent exoskeleton/skin of the caterpillar combined to bring up this peek at internal anatomy, which looks like brain lobes, though I’m skeptical
N 35°56’12.12″ W 78°35’55.49″ Google Earth location
I can pin down this location much better than when it was taken, partially because there’s no date stamp on the slide frame and it sits in the ‘Abstract’ section devoid of further context that might lend a clue – I’m going to say 1999, and let you attempt to prove otherwise. I was on –
Hopefully, it’s clear why this is one of my favorite images. The curious pose with its chin on its ‘hand,’ the downward, thoughtful eyes, and the soft and pastel, dreamlike background all work together extremely well – and all a happy accident hell, I was only shooting with a wide-open aperture because of the light, and working without a