Posts tagged ‘photography’
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Panoramic View of Termite Pavilion
Peter Watts of Panoramic Earth recently stopped by London Zoo (home to Pestival HQ) to take these incredible 360° panoramic photos of the Termite Pavilion, from the inside and outside.
Thanks so much to Peter Watts and Panoramic Earth, for this fantastic virtual tour. For the real life experience, come visit the Termite Pavilion in person at London Zoo!
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Chris Watson in The Wire
Pestival friend and collaborator Chris Watson is on the cover of The Wire magazine this month, with a feature by Ken Hollings.
Chris Watson refers to himself as a sound recordist, but it feels like an understatement: he has made his instrument, the microphone, a powerful tool for eavesdropping on wildlife and wild places to reveal sounds and environments free of human presence. Since leaving Cabaret Voltaire in 1983, he has travelled from pole to pole (geographically and musically), working with everyone from David Attenborough to z’ev.
Great insect-themed photo shoot with Chris at the Natural History Museum, courtesy of Jake Walters.
Check out Chris Watson’s fantastic sound installation, Whispering in the Leaves, currently at London’s Kew Gardens until 5 September. Alongside the installation, there’s a great programme of performances, workshops, guided tours and talks.
Here’s a short documentary on Whispering in the Leaves:
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Light Stencil Urban Art
Australian artist TigTab illuminates dark and derelict spaces with bright and colourful butterflies, dragonflies and spiders. These images appear to be digitally created, but actually they’re shot live using flashes of light through stencils.
From The Telegraph:
“My photos are predominantly shot using urban backdrops. I find beauty in decay – those abandoned and forgotten places all around us. By bringing light into the darkness of each space, it fills that space for a moment in time, and highlights both their beauty and impermanence”
The stencils are placed on light boxes lined with silver foil. The intricate designs are revealed after a burst from a camera flash lights up the inside of the box very briefly.
TigTab moves around the room, tunnel or drain, repositioning the stencils and firing the flash repeatedly while the shutter of the camera is left open to create complex designs.
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The Honeybee Magnified
Following from our recent post on insect photomicrography, if you like those then you’ll love photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher.
Her beautiful new book BEE, recently published by Princeton Architectural Press, presents 60 incredible magnified images of the honeybee. These remarkable photographs were shot through a scanning electron microscope at magnifications ranging from 10x to 5000x.
From the publisher:
Rendered in stunning detail, Fisher’s photographs uncover the strange beauty of the honeybee’s pattern, form, and structure. Comprising 6,900 hexagonal lenses, their eyes resemble the structure of a honeycomb. The honeybee’s proboscis—a strawlike appendage used to suck nectar out of flowers, folds resembles a long, slender hairy tongue. Its six-legged exoskeleton is fuzzy with hairs that build up a static charge as the bee flies in order to electrically attract pollen. Wings clasp together with tiny hooks and a double-edged stinger resembles a serrated hypodermic needle. The honeybee’s three pairs of segmented legs are a revelation, with their antennae cleaners, sharp-pointed claws, and baskets to carry pollen to the hive. These visual discoveries, made otherworldly through Fisher’s lens, expand the boundaries of our thinking about the natural world and stimulate our imaginations.
For our readers in New York, you can check out her exhibition BEE – A magnified exploration of the honeybee and its anatomy as art at the Farmani Gallery in Brooklyn, which runs until July 3rd.
(Via Book By Its Cover, photos © Julia Rothman)
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Amazing Photos of Insect Eyes Up Close!
Wired Science has a few stunning selections of insect eye photos from Nikon’s Small World photomicrography competition.
(image: Metallic Beetle)
(image: House Fly)
(image: Black Fly)
