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Dragonfly

Carsten — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:58:43 +0000

Summer days brings many of these elegant flyers. Direct translation of their Danish name is: “Gold Smith”, But I like the English name so much better. Dragonfly!
If any of you happen to know its name, I’d like to know.
I found a little trick for taking photos of this insect. Put a thin stick vertically in the ground and wait. They prefer sitting on the top of thin vertical branches. In this case I picked a bamboo about 3/8 inch thick 4 feet long. After less than a minute this one posed for me.
Click to see details.

Scale in photography

Carsten — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:30:16 +0000

My contrubution to Scott Thomas’ 14th assignment: “Showing Scale in Photography” – is this little fraction of a great moment.
The tiny girl was born 2011-07-16. Welcome to your world Idunn.

This time I am the humble intermediary. The proud grandmother Käthe took the picture. Thanks for letting me use it.

More micro

Carsten — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:50:19 +0000

The ESEM at FORCE Technology is not just a microscope. It is also capable of micro machining the parts in range of its ion-beam.
In this case the nerds (My colleagues) have carved the company logo on a human hair. And a fine hair it is.
No it is NOT photoshop artistery!
This should be enough of these images for a while.

Spider

Carsten — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:44:47 +0000

A little more on close up.
This is the head of a little spider as seen with a scanning electronbeam microscope.
The image was made by my colleagues at FORCE Technology. My inspiration for posting this one was Gerrys post “woodsy-dilemmas“.

Close-up

Carsten — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:30:07 +0000

The moon was “Close-up” the other day.
Someway it inspired me to come up with this contribution to Scotts 12th assignment.

Nop! Not close enough.

What about this:

Much better, but still….

Yes. Now we’re close. I know we are, but it is hard to see without scale. Let me try this instead:

If you click on the image you’ll get a slightly larger version.
Some tech data: ISO-100 f/32 100mm 30sec

Lets look for more details:

ISO-200, f/16, 6 sec

This is what I can resolve with My Canon 7D and 100mm MACRO 2.8L IS USM

There is also a little assignment to you my dear visitor. The task is to find out what ties these images together.

This is the connecting image. Pollen! I do not guarantee that it is from birch.
The assignment was close-up and this is a close look.
I had to get help to present this image of a single pollen.
The origin of the image is a scanning in an electron microscope. In this case a so called ESEM.

The volume of this pollen is 2 x 10^32 times smaller than the moon!

Close up photography

Carsten — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:36:49 +0000

Scott has called with a new assignment. Read all about it here.
Please feel free to join in. This post is not my contribution, but a macro experiment.
The photo was taken from the screen of my iPhone.
Try yourself and guess what’s on the image. To see the answer, just click on the image.

More Macro

Carsten — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:39:15 +0000

Imagine what this is before you go to the following images….

While you wonder what this is I’ll process the next images….
….Well, here we are:

Daisy

Carsten — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:01:03 +0000

Alive and Alert

Carsten — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:07:51 +0000

Three roosters in a chicken yard are too many. This is one of the two.

Flower of the day

Carsten — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:39:46 +0000