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BugShot 2012!
Posted by on August 20, 2012
I am one excited geek right now: in just a few days, I’ll be hopping on a plane and heading down to the Archbald Biological Station in Venus, Florida where I will join about 35 other people who are taking part in the premiere insect macrophotography workshop of the year: BugShot 2012!**
Three days of workshops, hands-on gear demonstrations, and opportunities to practice in the field and in studio-style settings await me! I am super-pumped and plan to suck up every last drop of knowledge I can manage, not only from the incomparable instructors (Alex Wild, Thomas Shahan and John Abbott) but also from the other participants.
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all the people who either purchased something from my store or sent in a donation so that I could attend. I never would have managed this trip without your incredible generosity: all together, you helped me raise nearly $800 – enough to cover the registration fee and a chunk of the travel expenses!
I am humbled, touched, and honoured that so many of you reached out to me. I will, as promised, be blogging and tweeting the event, to share some tips and tricks with all of you. Hopefully I’ll also get a stash of some great photos of Floridian fauna to get me through the winter!
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** The photos used in this post are some that I took at the inaugural BugShot workshop in 2011 and haven’t been featured on the blog yet 🙂 The two taken in a “white box” represent my first attempts at this technique, and at using a flash – two great things I learned last year. With a year of practice under my belt, I know I’m going to take away so much more this time around!
Yay! Looking forward to seeing you soon!
Likewise, my friend!!! 😀
Woo, Bug Shot! Looking forward to seeing you again!
Sounds like a blast! I hope you have a great time. You should check out a copy of Thomas Eisner’s “For Love of Insects” to bring with you before you go. They probably have one at your school or public library. He did a lot of work at Archbold (note spelling), and it has just great photos of some really cool experiments, many of which were done with insects found at Archbold. . Unfortunately he passed away last year.I think that you and the other participants would get a kick out of seeing this book.
Say Hi to Warren for me!
If For Love of Insects is not in, “secret Weapons” is also good: http://mcgill.worldcat.org/title/secret-weapons-defenses-of-insects-spiders-scorpions-and-other-many-legged-creatures/oclc/57506693&referer=brief_results
BTW that crab spider is fabulous.
Jealous! Would love to have made it this year, have fun!
Glad you made it, wish I could have made it this year, perhaps next year. We want pictures lots and lots of pictures!
You’ll have to wait ’till Photo Friday for pictures! 😉 In the meantime, there will be more “tip” posts this week 🙂
Making me wait till Friday – That’s just mean – lol – Looking forward to it. Hope your travels went well.