Photography
grrlscientist | January 13, 2009tags: Verdin, Auriparus flaviceps, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Verdin, Auriparus flaviceps, photographed in Arizona. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Richard Ditch, 2007 [larger view].
Date Time Original: 2007:05:04 08:14:06
Exposure Time: 1/639
F-Number: 8.00
ISO: 200
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
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grrlscientist | January 12, 2009tags: Christopher Street, Sheridan Square, The Greenwich Village Murals, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Christopher Street/Sheridan Square subway tile art (1 train).
Image: GrrlScientist, 27 December 2008 [larger view].
This mural depicts people who were instrumental in establishing the Village, including an early land developer, the publisher of New York's first African-American newspaper, a muralist, and a novelist who immortalized Washington Square -- all gathered around the great arch.
I have photographed glass tile mosaic artworks from several NYC subway stations…
grrlscientist | January 12, 2009tags: Black-chinned Sparrow, Spizella atrogularis, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Black-chinned Sparrow, Spizella atrogularis, photographed in Boyce Thompson Arboretum Demo Garden, Superior, Arizona. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Richard Ditch, 2006 [larger view].
Date Time Original: 2006:02:25 08:54:01
Exposure Time: 1/60
F-Number: 11.00
ISO: 200
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Rick Wright, Managing Director of WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide, writes:
It's good in a new year to start over again at the beginning…
grrlscientist | January 11, 2009tags: Times Square, 42nd street Times Square, New York in Transit, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
New York in Transit, 2001, detail 4, photographed from left to right.
Artist: Jacob Lawrence. Glass mosaics on stairway wall between N, Q, W, R and S mezzanines.
Image: GrrlScientist 5 November 2008 [larger view].
The enormous mosaic mural is the focal point of the mezzanine in the Times Square subway complex. Its shimmering and detailed surface pays tribute to the diversity and strength of New York City - its neighborhoods, cultural life, recreational pleasures, love of…
grrlscientist | January 11, 2009tags: Orange-crowned Warbler, Vermivora celata, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Orange-crowned Warbler, Vermivora celata, photographed in Allen Williams Yard, Pharr, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 2 April 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/60s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Rick Wright, Managing Director of WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide, writes:
It's a yellow warbler -- but it's not a Yellow Warbler. Note that this is a…
grrlscientist | January 10, 2009tags: Times Square, 42nd street Times Square, New York in Transit, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
New York in Transit, 2001, detail 3, photographed from left to right.
Artist: Jacob Lawrence. Glass mosaics on stairway wall between N, Q, W, R and S mezzanines.
Image: GrrlScientist 5 November 2008 [larger view].
The enormous mosaic mural is the focal point of the mezzanine in the Times Square subway complex. Its shimmering and detailed surface pays tribute to the diversity and strength of New York City - its neighborhoods, cultural life, recreational pleasures, love of…
grrlscientist | January 9, 2009tags: Times Square, 42nd street Times Square, New York in Transit, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
New York in Transit, 2001, detail 2, photographed from left to right.
Artist: Jacob Lawrence. Glass mosaics on stairway wall between N, Q, W, R and S mezzanines.
Image: GrrlScientist, 12 January 2009 [larger view].
The enormous mosaic mural is the focal point of the mezzanine in the Times Square subway complex. Its shimmering and detailed surface pays tribute to the diversity and strength of New York City - its neighborhoods, cultural life, recreational pleasures, love of…
awild | January 9, 2009
Gibbium sp. Spider Beetle, Arizona
Spider beetles are not predators like their namesakes but are instead pests of stored grain. I was surprised at how difficult they were to photograph. Their round bodies were hard to fit into a single focal plane, while their reflective elytra were prone to harsh glare. I could not do much about the first problem, but the lighting was solved by placing the beetle inside a white box and firing an off-camera strobe into the box but away from the beetle.
Gibbium sp., Arizona
photo details (both images): Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens on a Canon EOS…
laelaps | January 9, 2009
John Daniel the gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), photographed at the American Museum of Natural History.
grrlscientist | January 8, 2009tags: Times Square, 42nd street Times Square, New York in Transit, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
New York in Transit, 2001, detail 1, photographed from left to right.
Artist: Jacob Lawrence. Glass mosaics on stairway wall between N, Q, W, R and S mezzanines.
Image: GrrlScientist 5 November 2008 [larger view].
The enormous mosaic mural is the focal point of the mezzanine in the Times Square subway complex. Its shimmering and detailed surface pays tribute to the diversity and strength of New York City - its neighborhoods, cultural life, recreational pleasures, love of…
awild | January 8, 2009
Sericomyrmex amabilis in its fungus garden, Panama
photo details: Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens on a Canon EOS 20D
ISO 100, 1/250 sec, f/13, twin flash diffused through tracing paper
grrlscientist | January 8, 2009tags: Clay-colored Sparrow, Spizella+pallida, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Clay-colored Sparrow, Spizella pallida, photographed in Marymoor Park, Redmond, King County, Washington State. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Marv Breece, 7 October 2006 [larger view].
Canon EOS 350D 1/400s f/8.0 at 300.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Rick Wright, Managing Director of WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide, writes:
The first step in identifying sparrows is to eliminate as many species as possible -- and the best…
grrlscientist | January 7, 2009tags: Times Square, 42nd street Times Square, New York in Transit, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
New York in Transit, 2001. Photographed from the right side.
Artist: Jacob Lawrence. Glass mosaics on stairway wall between N, Q, W, R and S mezzanines.
Image: GrrlScientist 5 November 2008 [larger view].
The enormous mosaic mural is the focal point of the mezzanine in the Times Square subway complex. Its shimmering and detailed surface pays tribute to the diversity and strength of New York City - its neighborhoods, cultural life, recreational pleasures, love of sports and…
grrlscientist | January 7, 2009tags: African Jacana, Actophilornis africanus, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] African Jacana, Actophilornis africanus, endemic to marshes and reedbeds across eastern and southern Africa from Ethiopia to South Africa. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image:GrrlScientist, 2 September 2008 [larger view].
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Rick Wright, Managing Director of WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide, writes:
The jacanas are a small group of strange rail-like shorebirds of tropical marshes. Though the different species are…
grrlscientist | January 6, 2009tags: Times Square, 42nd street Times Square, New York in Transit, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
New York in Transit, 2001. Photographed from the left side.
Artist: Jacob Lawrence. Glass mosaics on stairway wall between N, Q, W, R and S mezzanines.
Image: GrrlScientist 5 November 2008 [larger view].
The enormous mosaic mural is the focal point of the mezzanine in the Times Square subway complex. Its shimmering and detailed surface pays tribute to the diversity and strength of New York City - its neighborhoods, cultural life, recreational pleasures, love of sports and…
bioephemera | January 6, 2009
Via Scibling Corpus Callosum comes this story of a photographer arrested for taking this photo of an Amtrak train. . . in order to enter Amtrak's own "Picture Our Trains" contest. Uh, PR snafu, anyone?
This is especially annoying because it's been an ongoing problem in DC for some time. Tourists often take photos in Union Station - and often get harassed by guards for doing so, even though station reps have admitted it's not against the law. It's hard to say how taking photos like this one, from public areas, is a security risk - but if it is, Amtrak should get some kind of consistent policy…
laelaps | January 6, 2009I knew it would happen someday; someone has found one of my photographs, captioned it, and posted it to icanhascheezburger.com. I stumbled across it while flipping through the "Upcoming" section.
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I took that photo in August of 2006 at the Animal Kingdom Pet Store & Zoo (it's about as crummy as it sounds). For anyone interested in captioning more pictures, I think some of my recent sea lion pictures are good candidates (like this one, or this one). Just don't say you "dunno source."