Today I finally caught a beautiful peacock butterfly on camera. While feeding honeybees are extremely placid and easy to shoot, butterflies tend to flutter around… well, like butterflies! The peacock was so big (easily over 5 cm) that most of the pictures I kept were shot without my usual Marumi DHG Achromat +3 macro filter, … Continue reading “Peacock Butterfly & More”
Tag: Nature
Animals and other natural topics
Marumi Macro October
Autumn was unusually warm and sunny, so I managed to shoot another batch of arthropods. Once again, the equipment was a Sony NEX-7 with the SEL-18200 zoom lens and a Marumi DHG Achromat +3 macro filter. Most of the pictures are new but I also collected a few from August and September. Click on any … Continue reading “Marumi Macro October”
More Marumi Macro Moths
Late summer is here, meaning that flowers are running out of nectar and I’m running out of opportunities to shoot feeding insects oblivious to human observers. So I made another trek with my Sony NEX-7 camera, the SEL-18200 zoom lens, and a Marumi DHG Achromat macro filter. Unlike my previous expedition with the +5 filter, … Continue reading “More Marumi Macro Moths”
Macro Critters with Marumi Achromat
Seeing that the world has survived my first round of photos, I put together another gallery full of magnificently magnified insects rather than castles. The magnification was achieved with a Marumi macro filter, as described in the next section. Scroll down to see the gallery itself, and click on any image to enter a full-screen … Continue reading “Macro Critters with Marumi Achromat”
Passau Pictures & Photoscape
Brace yourselves, it’s time to inflict my amateur photos on the Internet! At least there aren’t any cat pictures. A five-hour trek through Passau in Bavaria/Germany, at the conflux of Danube, Inn & Ilz, yielded about 160 exposures of which I kept eleven. Notably absent is St. Stephen’s cathedral which is currently being renovated, and … Continue reading “Passau Pictures & Photoscape”
Simulated Life
Computational biology reached a milestone last week. Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute presented the first software simulation of an entire living organism, albeit an extremely simple one: the single-cell bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium. The simulation models M. genitalium’s metabolic functions and all of its 525 genes (for comparison, multicellular organisms can … Continue reading “Simulated Life”