Critters caught on a high-speed camera

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-4 13:02:25

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Scott Linstead

Big brown bat

This bat was photographed at an artificial pond in the Arizona desert. The pond is an important resource for the bats in the desert's harsh climate.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-4 13:01:59

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Ladybugs

Most of us are used to seeing photos of ladybugs, like the one on the left -- the familiar red-and-black round shell, and not much else. Linstead brings us a different dimension of the ladybug with the one on the right. While the photo looks like it was taken outdoors, he took the shot in a studio.

The beetles are drawn to light, he says, so he used a light source on a flower, but kept the light off until he was ready to take the photograph.

"There are situations where eye contact simply does not work to an image’s advantage," he says. "As photogenic as a ladybug can be while crawling on a leaf, in flight they appear rather awkward. The eye as well as the rest of the head is difficult to locate among the clutter of appendages. Their pleasingly symmetric shape transforms into a jagged array of wings, carapace halves, legs and the abdomen."

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-4 13:01:32

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Scott Linstead

Archer fish

In the first photo, left, a predatory archer fish displaces a cricket from its perch over the waterline by squirting a jet of water. In the photo on the right, the fish breaches to devour the cricket.

The photographer says the breach behavior was captured purely by chance while trying to photograph the spitting behavior. "When I lowered the 'cricket perch' to the water's surface, the fish would jump out to try and grab it manually instead of the more sophisticated method that it is known for," Linstead says.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-6-4 13:01:05

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Regal jumping spiderling

If this were a Hollywood movie set, you might think the spiderling was making its way onto a gigantic faux penny.

Not so. It's a real penny, and the details we can see in the little creature -- including its eyes and furry legs -- are amazing.

"The tiny spiderling was fresh out of the nest, and I wanted to show scale relative to something omnipresent and recognizable," says Linstead.

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