Category: Photo of the day
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Cross eyed stereo photo of a Rose chafer, photo Jörgen Hellberg
Christmas in the greenhouse
Until December 12, it is Christmas in Edward Andersson’s greenhouse. If you have children or grandchildren, just hurry up if you want to show the plants that are behind the smells and flavors of Christmas. Here you will find cinnamon, chocolate, almonds, nuts and much more to smell and feel. As usual, you can get […]
Butterfly scales with a pollen grain
Yesterday and today I was using two different microscope objectives first an infinite Nikon 40x ELWD. This one has a correction collar that makes it useful for pictures with and without a coverslip. It can be adjusted for glass thickness from 0 to 2mm. With this objective I made a stereo picture of a butterfly […]
A winter day at Angarnssjöängen
While the most northern parts of Sweden can enjoy the polar night. The Stockholm area have more than 6 hours of daylight from a low standing sun. This makes it possible to take photos that usually only can be acquired at early mornings or late evenings. This is a lunch time panorama, pointing the camera […]
Compensating variation an old trick – and another Cross eyed stereo
This is a Nikon microscope plan apo 20x, NA 0.75, 160mm objective. The working distance is quite short 0.64 mm according to a Nikon brochure. This lens is not intended to be used without a coverslip. If you use a high NA objective without a coverslip the picture does not form correctly. But what do […]
Dor beetle
Anoplotrupes stercorosus, the dor beetle, is a species of earth-boring dung beetle. (Skogstordyvel in Swedish). Gear and teqnique was the same as I used for the Rose Chafer, Camera Canon EOS 6D, Lens MP-E65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro Photo, pictures stacked in Zeren Stacker. Link to this picture at Alamy
Common sundew at midsummer
Visiting the grandparent’s cottage, the day before midsummer, I found this beautiful specimen of Round-leaved sundew or common sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) down by the lake. Common sundew can be found round the globe in the northern hemisphere. The drops on the leaves are used to catch and digest insects. I wanted to have most of […]
A cold and windy summer evening in Steninge Halland
One of my favourite places in Sweden is the west coast in Halland. My first memories, from this coast goes back to the 60: s racing down a snow-covered sand dune on a red sled. I have been camping here during beautiful summer weeks but this time bringing the family I rented a cabin – […]
Lavender summer
Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola), Mindre tåtelsmygare, is one of our common guests in our lavender bushes. A less common guest is the interesting Hemaris fuciformis, broad-bordered bee hawk moth, (Humledagsvärmare) with its almost transparent and very fast wings. For these photos I used the Canon 6D camera with the EF 100 mm f2.8L Macro IS […]
Closing in on the Rose chafer
Even if this bird-like figure has a slight resemblance to human rock carvings it is as far from it at it can be. This is a small detail of the abdomen of the beetle Rose chafer (Cetonia aurata). For this photo I used a Polarized light and a Nikon plan fluor 20x ELWD 20x NA […]