Earlier I listed my pick of the best insect photos of the year taken by other photographers. Now it’s my turn. In 2009, I snapped 8000 exposures to produce 805 processed, saleable images of live insects. Below are my favorites.
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The Best of Myrmecos 2009
Posted in Ants, fun, Insect Links, Nature, tagged 2009, Ants, digital photography, Insects, macrophotography, Photography on December 28, 2009| 21 Comments »
The digital revolution and the mainstreaming of arthropods
Posted in Insect Links, Photography Links, tagged conservation, digital photography, macro, Nature on February 9, 2008| 6 Comments »
In 1934, a diminutive book by an unknown author seeded the largest conservation movement in history. The book, Roger Tory Peterson’s A Field Guide to the Birds, pioneered the modern field guide format with crisp illustrations of diagnostic characters, all in a pocket-sized read. The Guide sold out in a week, but the book’s effects are ongoing.
To understand the magnitude of Peterson’s impact, consider how naturalists traditionally identified birds. They’d take a shotgun into the field, and if they saw something of interest they’d kill it. Birding was necessarily limited to the landed- and armed- gentry. The technique wasn’t so good for the birds either.