As I am new to blogging, there are photos from my archive that I would like to share. I'll interject a few archive shots among the new posts from time to time, and identify them as such.
Being an equipment freak, and generally pretty excited by a challenge, I was thrilled to have an excuse to purchase the Canon MP-E 65mm f2.8 1-5x Macro lens. This lens starts at 1 to 1 magnification and ends at 5x life size.
One of my clients asked me to shoot a fly. And not just any fly... a specific type of fly. In January. In Chicago. Naturally.
The fly had to be shipped to me from a university in the South in the form of pupae. It took a few days for the pupae to hatch (?) and we had hundreds of teensy tiny little stable flies in a special container. I put the container in the freezer to, well, kill the flies.
The shots are pretty cool, but I quickly realized that dead flies are not nearly as cool looking as live flies. I did have some fun with the image, as you can see in the second shot above.
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