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Photo Synthesis is a rotating showcase of the best science photography on the web.
Ted Kinsman is a scientific photographer that specializes in creating images for books, magazines, and television. His particular areas of interest are in x-ray radiography, high-speed photography, Scanning electron microscopy, and time-lapse cinematography. His work has appeared in numerous books and magazines ranging from Discover Magazine to Forbes. Recently his work has appeared on Gray's Anatomy and CSI New York. In addition to running www.sciencephotography.com Kinsman also teaches advanced placement physics at Brighton High School in Rochester, NY, he also teaches advanced macro-photography at Rochester Institute of Technology.
B.N. (Bobbie) Sullivan has a strong affinity for the sea and everything in it. She first learned to dive in 1970 and has since logged thousands of dives. A wish to document the marine life she encountered prompted her to learn underwater photography more than 20 years ago. More recently, she began to write about the marine life she has photographed. A research psychologist by profession, she approaches her subject matter with the mindset of a scientist, but targets her writing to a general readership in whom she hopes to foster an appreciation for the ocean and its inhabitants.
Bobbie lives in Hawaii with her husband. Together they produce TheRightBlue.com, where you can see more of Bobbie's photos and writing.
B Jefferson Bolender is Training Coordinator of the State of Arizona's
program for disability awareness and assistive technology. Through
her travels she always has a camera at hand to photograph everything
from people to technology and nature. As a teacher of elementary
education, special education and art, her interests include a wide
array of subject matter with an emphasis on documentation with an
artist's eye.
See more of her work in her photo stream on Flickr and the website atarizona.com.
Steve Jurvetson enjoys rocketry and photography and especially the pursuit of both in the Black Rock Desert. Some action photos and video links can be found here.
Steve is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ.com), a leading venture capital firm with affiliate offices around the world.
He was the founding VC investor in Hotmail, Interwoven, and Kana. Previously, he was an R&D Engineer at HP, and his prior technical experience also includes programming, materials science research, and computer design. He has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, an MSEE and and MBA, all from Stanford University.
Alex Wild is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he works on the molecular phylogenetics of various groups of insects. He is also a part-time photographer whose images appear in such venues as Ranger Rick, Smithsonian, BBC Wildlife, and even ScienceBlogs.
Alex's galleries are viewable at www.alexanderwild.com, and he normally blogs at Myrmecos Blog.
Into entomology? Check out Insects.org
April 30, 2009
Category: Ants
Today, Roche announced funding for over a dozen genomes of organisms associated with the agricultural attine ants and the fungus they cultivate. In honor of the occasion, here's a sampling of a few of the attine species and their gardens....
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April 29, 2009
Category: Insects
Digital cameras are doing for insects what Roger Tory Peterson did for birds.
Posted by Alex Wild at 12:22 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Beetles
...is to add an actual human.
Posted by Alex Wild at 12:32 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2009
Category: Ants
We're taking over the world. Slide Show of ant images at 11.
Posted by Alex Wild at 11:58 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Insects
Hello! I'm a grasshopper.
Posted by Alex Wild at 9:27 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 26, 2009
Category: Light
An anonymous commenter asked if I could explain the white box I sometimes use for insect studio shots. Here it is: There's not much to it. It's an old cardboard box- this one once held toilet paper, I think- with...
Posted by Alex Wild at 1:45 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 25, 2009
Category: Ants
In some respects, effective photography is the antithesis of the whole scientific endeavor. Imagine if we ran experiments the same way as we take photos, conducting hundreds of them until we found one we liked enough to publish.
Posted by Alex Wild at 2:30 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 24, 2009
Category: Ants
For a picture of an insect, it's kind of a personal image to see splattered across the ScienceBlogs.
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April 23, 2009
Category: Insects
Although the gadget industry does its best to convince us that photography is all about owning the latest and best gear, it remains true that the best images come from the most skilled and most patient photographers. Gear is merely incidental.
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April 22, 2009
Category: Ants
Ectatomma edentatum, Argentina Equipment details: Canon EOS 20D, using an MP-E 65mm 1-5x lens (at 5x), lit with an MT-24EX twin flash diffused through tracing paper. Several years ago, before I became serious about photography, I shot the same...
Posted by Alex Wild at 9:59 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
