Month: January 2020
Morpho aega pseudocypris
The colurs of Morpho butterflies are stunning, but photographing Morpho wingscales are new to me. This is a photo of what I expected a Morpho to look like – a didius argentiferus from the Swedish Natural History Museum It turned out that, at least some, Morphos can be quite difficult to photograph. This is a […]
Fireworks
Fireworks are interesting and quite fun to photograph. It can be difficult to find the right settings for the camera. To short and all you catch is some sparks. To long and the entire picture is overloaded with fireworks. For the blue explosion 0.6 seconds was enough but the red flowers needed 13 seconds. Another […]
I have just aded a section about Baltic amber
Ant in Baltic amber, photographed with Mitutoyo M plan apo 20x objective. Baltic amber are said to be from 44 million years ago. If you want to photograph insects or other amber inclusions you have to chose carefully to find nice objects that are close to the surface. A water dipping objective and submerging the […]