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  • The Bug Whisperer

    Thumbnail for The Bug WhispererMacro photography of invertebrates. Photographs, equipment and technique.

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  • What’s Up? by The Bug Whisperer on Nov 8, 2009

    I have been a bit slothful lately, especially in regards to regular blog updates. I need to remind myself that blogging posts need to be timely and at the rate I am going all my posts will be referring back to long past events and experiences. Bug bl...

  • A Toadlet of the Highlands by Voyages Around My Camera on Oct 27, 2009

    At the end of September I spent 5 days exploring the Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park. I  stayed at a campsite at Rampart Creek which was near a shallow pond beside the North Saskatchewan River. When returning from a walk one day I came acro...

  • Amisk Wuche – A Close-up View by Voyages Around My Camera on Sep 19, 2009

    The Amisk Wuche  (Cree for “Beaver Hills”) trail in Elk Island National Park used to be favorite  of mine. It was a short trail, but it led through a variety of habitats that made it particularly interesting for a photographer. It begin...

  • White Backgrounds – Part II by The Bug Whisperer on Sep 14, 2009

    Due to overwhelming popular demand (thanks, Ted!) I have been discussing how I make bug images with white backgrounds without the need of tedious PhotoShop work. In the first part of this series, I showed just how easy it is to produce a white backgr...

  • Centipede on White by The Bug Whisperer on Sep 13, 2009

    Continuing on the white background theme, this Stone centipede (Class Chilopoda, Order Lithobiomorpha) was found in the garden by my daughter and was promptly moved into my collapsible white box for a portrait. These centipedes are fast movers, and t...

  • Mycologist Needed… by Voyages Around My Camera on Sep 11, 2009

    I photographed these on the Amisk Wuche trail in Elk Island National Park last weekend. They don’t quite match with anything in my mushroom books – is there someone out there who can help identify these fungi? Order Agaricales (Gilled Mus...

  • Macro Checklist by The Bug Whisperer on Aug 31, 2009

    On the day of my Tiger hunt I went through an period of taking dozens of macro pictures – painstaking work on hands and knees – only to find that my flash settings were incorrect. I am sure that something like this has happened to others:...

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