An amateur naturalist's photoblog
This is my first try combining several shots taken at a different exposures. I took 5 shots in all, each at 1 stop interval and then combined them to give this picture. The camera (Nikon D300) was set to give “vivid” colours hence the saturated look.
Albrecht Dürer pioneered an appreciation of nature in all its diversity. He painted an accurate, life-size portrait of a male stag beetle. Cast shadows and the upward motion of its head create the illusion that the viewer is encountering a living insect.
With the eyes of a naturalist, Dürer created a watercolour that is dedicated entirely to the splendid male stag beetle. Dürer’s pupil, Hans Hoffman, copied Dürer’s popular watercolour from 1505 twice. A Lucanus cervus is also the mainfocal point of two wonderful watercolours from the Dutch artist Georg Hoefnagel.
Here is an unexpected shot… all I intended was to take a photograph of the spider on the buttercup, when in flew an unexpected visitor, the spider’s next victim. Notice how the spider hangs his victims from silk threads – ready to be eaten at a later time.
See also :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranunculus
This caterpillar was part of a colony of some 20 or so individuals enclosed in silk threads. On being disturbed it threw itself out on a invisible silken thread and hung suspended in the air.
Crab spiders often catch large insects such as bees. It seems this fellow was on his hors d’oeuvre. The fly in its jaws was so small that I didn’t notice it whan I took the shot.
This Dog Rose was neatly folded (resembling an orchid). It’s creator, a crab spider, lay in wait inside.
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