Here’s a sampling of stacked focus pictures I made this afternoon. They were shot using a copy-stand with which I manually stepped the focus. Each is made of around 40 shots. I used a flash thi...
https://oregonbeatsheet.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/26-ii-2015-more-stacked-focus-pictures/
It’s been a long time since there’s been a new post, because it’s been a long time since there have been bugs around to photograph. However, with the winter in Oregon being as warm as it ha...
https://oregonbeatsheet.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/fun-with-flash/
I did some drawings for the folks over at the awesome science blog BuzzHootRoar for an article about an interesting critter called the sleeping chironomid! I’ll let them tell you all about it: ...
https://oregonbeatsheet.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/sleeping-chironomids-at-buzzhootroar/
(Note: sorry about the lack of updates for a while, because I had been locked out my account by getting a new phone and wiping my computer. I was good about doing most backups, but apprently not ...
In addition to sciencing, I also like drawing and creating print media. I’ve just started working on a “Legends of Entomology” trading card series highlighting some of the more important or...
https://oregonbeatsheet.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/legends-of-entomology-trading-cards/
No updates recently because it’s been fairly slow collecting around the Willamette Valley and elsewhere. Mid-summer means mid-life cycle for stink bugs. The overwintering adults laid their eggs...
I am not a desert person. I don’t prefer being hot or sweaty over any other condition, and the desert provides those in excess, along with the ability to chap the lips severely. However, I’m ...
https://oregonbeatsheet.wordpress.com/2014/07/10/30-vi-2014-deschutes-harney-counties/
What’s more frightening? A wasp with with huge forelimbs for grasping prey, or a mantis with a deadly stinger? Mantises are scary because of their huge “raptorial” forearms made for catchin...
https://oregonbeatsheet.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/9-vi-2014-mantispidae/
Just a short 3 to 4 hour drive from Corvallis and a small trip around Mt. Hood is Maupin, a small town in North Central Oregon along the Deschutes River. Maupin is heavily decorated with fly fish...
A couple of years ago, my friend Sarah sent me a text that instructed me to meet her outside of Cordley Hall. Cordley is a charming brick building named after A.B. Cordley, an former entomologis...