• Home
  • About Alex Wild
  • Articles
  • Galleries
  • Myrmecology News

Myrmecos Blog

the little things matter

Feeds:
Posts
Comments
« Look! Pretty!
A mysterious tramp: Pheidole moerens »

A public appearance

January 28, 2009 by myrmecos

I’ll be giving an hour-long seminar on insect photography this coming Monday, February 2nd, as part of the University of Illinois Ecology and Evolutionary Biology “Ecolunch” series.  Here are the details:

Alex Wild at Ecolunch
“Insect Photography: A How To For You Too”
***
February 2, 12-1pm
176 Burrill Hall
407 S Goodwin Ave
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801

I’ll be covering a few basic aspects of macro photography, including equipment, composition, and working with live insects.

Advertisement

Like this:

Like
Be the first to like this post.

Posted in Tricks of the Trade | 2 Comments

2 Responses

  1. on February 3, 2009 at 2:56 am Kolby

    Did anyone record this so those who couldn’t make it can watch/listen to it on the interwebs?


  2. on February 3, 2009 at 7:14 am myrmecos

    Goodness, I hope not. We had a projector failure so I gave an hour-long photography talk using just chalk and a blackboard.

    On the bright side, the lack of visuals led to a fair bit of discussion and participation.



Comments are closed.


  • This blog is an archive; the Myrmecos blog has moved.

    Please update your bookmarks!
  • Alex’s Galleries

    alexanderwild.com

  • Recent Photos

    A young leaf-footed bug (Coreidae).

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia

    Camponotus consobrinus - banded sugar ant. Here, a worker stands guard in case the photographer approaches her nest too closely.

Diamond Creek, Victoria, Australia

    Podomyrma adelaidae worker foraging on a tree branch.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

    Podomyrma adelaidae

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

    Camponotus suffusus carrying a pupae through their colony's underground galleries.

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

    Helpis minitabunda - Aussie Bronze Jumping Spider (Salticidae)

Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

    More Photos
  • Biology Links

    • Tree of Life
    • Understanding Evolution
  • Blogroll

    • Ainsley Vs Livejournal
    • Ammonite
    • Anna’s Bee World
    • Archetype
    • Arthropoda blog
    • Backyard Arthropod Project
    • Beetles in the Bush
    • biodiversity in focus
    • Bug Dreams
    • Bug Eric
    • Bug Girl’s Blog
    • Burrard-Lucas Photoblog
    • Catalogue of Organisms
    • Creature Cast
    • Dan Heller
    • Debbie's Insect Blog
    • Dechronization
    • Drawing the MotMot
    • Entomoblog
    • Evolving Thoughts
    • Fall to Climb
    • Generant
    • Historias de Hormigas
    • Life on Six Legs
    • Macromite
    • microecos
    • mirmekolozi
    • myrmecoid
    • Myrmician
    • Natural Imagery
    • Nature in the Ozarks
    • NCSU Insect Blog
    • No Cropping Zone
    • omit needless words
    • Photo Synthesis
    • Princess Peppercloud
    • Science Blogs
    • Snail’s Tales
    • Stu Jenks
    • The Ant Hunter
    • The Ant Room
    • The Bug Whisperer
    • The Loom
    • This Week in Evolution
    • What's Bugging You?
    • Wild about Ants
    • Xenogere
  • Insect Links

    • Ant Farm Forum
    • Ant Insights
    • Antweb
    • Bug Squad
    • bugguide.net
    • Xerces Society
  • Photography Links

    • Canon Photography Forums
    • Digital Photography Review
    • DIY Photography
    • Igor Siwanowicz
    • Mark Plonsky
    • photo.net
    • Piotr Naskrecki
    • The Strobist
  • Popular Posts

    • How to Identify the Argentine Ant, Linepithema humile
    • The Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x Macro Lens
    • The World's Largest Ants...
    • How to Identify Queen Ants
    • CombineZP: stack your images for free
    • Rover Ants (Brachymyrmex patagonicus), an emerging pest species
    • Ladybirds Flying
    • Ant Metamorphosis
    • The Odorous House Ant, Tapinoma sessile
    • Eureka! Heureka! An Astonishing New Ant!
  • Recent Posts

    • This blog has moved.
    • Friday Beetle Blogging: The Hollyhock Weevil
    • The Friday Beetle will be late…
    • Bed bugs reach an all-time high
    • Answer to the Monday Night Mystery
  • Recent Comments

    • Donald Byron Johnson on Reader question: who discovered the sex of ant workers?
    • Anonymous on Update on the Rogue Taxonomist
    • Ant on Arizona Daily Star covers “Planet of the Ants”
    • Ga. Girl on Beware the Cow-Killer
    • Anonymous on Beware the Cow-Killer
  • Categories

  • Archives

  • Tags

    animation Ants aphids Argentina art Bees beetles biodiversity biology Biology Links bugs carabidae coleoptera diptera E. O. Wilson ecology entomology Evolution fail fire ants Flies formicidae Insects invasive species macro macrophotography miniscule music myrmecology natural history Nature new species Parasites pheidole Photography Photography business phylogenetics phylogeny Pogonomyrmex politics predation social insects Taxonomy termites wasps
  • Nature Blog Network

    Add to Technorati Favorites



    Follow this blog

Blog at WordPress.com.

Theme: MistyLook by Sadish.


Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 51 other followers

Powered by WordPress.com