Please note, this article is outdated and for archive purposes only. I’m often asked what the “best” camera is for “X” type of photography, which is like answering, “what’s the best place to eat for lunch?”. Depends. But I have actually come to rely on what I think is the…
The Giant Whip Scorpion is an Arachnid, but is only distantly related to true Scorpions. It has neither a venomous sting or bite. It has 4 sets of legs, but the front legs have developed into extremely long, rotating antennae. The Vinageroon hunts arthropods including Crickets, Cockroaches and smaller Scorpions….
It’s difficult to discern what’s going on in the photo above, but by human standards it would be considered perverse and macabre. It appears that a female Ambush Bug has skewered a Honey Bee with her piercing mouth part after it landed on a Raspberry blossom for a take of…
Focus stacking is a powerful technique to achieve 100% depth of field through each plane of focus from the front to the back of the image. In a focus stack, the focus is incrementally moved forward by just a hair through a sequence of many shots. All of the images…