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Old 03-05-2007, 09:20 AM   #1
Undertoad
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March 5, 2007: Lepidoptera, Interrupted: dead bugs gallery



Once again, it's Neatorama collaboration Monday!



If you feel like sometimes you're the windshield, but more often you're the bug, you'll love this set of award-winning photos from photographer Volker Steger. His gallery of dead bugs, retrieved from a plastic ersatz windshield after driving around in a car, is highlighted at this Spiegel Online story.



The article is in German, but one of Mr Steger's statements translates as
Quote:
I find, the mosquitoes and flies look like pleased angels.
The photos are not color-accurate because they come from an electron microscope? That's what I take from this bit of Babelfish-translated conversation:
Quote:
MIRROR ON-LINE ONE: How do such microscopic photographs function technically?

Steger: Only I dried the animals at air, afterwards then you are also scanned gold vaporized, so that they become electrically leading, and in a vacuum chamber with an electron beam. With these data one can produce pictures.

MIRROR ON-LINE ONE: And those see in such a way from as in the photo distance?

Steger: Not yet completely. The pictures are first black-and-white, I them later koloriert. I hope that one also sees, because I want to give the chance to the viewer to recognize that what they see is not completely material.


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