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Image by fotoopa
fotoopa in action to capture insects in-flight.

This part of the garden contain multiple flowers especially for the insects. More then 100 flowers stay here. This part is divide up into small blocks with alternate paths so i can acces the flowers with the unit. All paths are 60cm wide, the flowers zones are 1.1m wide. I can walk around all the flowers to capture the insects.

This setup take pictures of insects inflight. An optical extra lens system is added to look for insects in focus. Only 40 usec are needed to check if there are objects in focus.

This unit works on reflected laserlight. No more leaserbeams are needed, no more long arms to put the receivers on the top of the system. The full distance is now free between camera and insects. The unit works in full dark or even in full bright sun. Sensivity can by adjusted by mean of a simple potmeter. To work in full dark 2 to 4 extra high power leds are added. 2 of this high power leds are UV leds at 405nm. This UV light attrack some insects inflight.

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Image by fotoopa
fotoopa in action to capture insects in-flight.

This part of the garden contain multiple flowers especially for the insects. More then 100 flowers stay here. This part is divide up into small blocks with alternate paths so i can acces the flowers with the unit. All paths are 60cm wide, the flowers zones are 1.1m wide. I can walk around all the flowers to capture the insects.

This setup take pictures of insects inflight. An optical extra lens system is added to look for insects in focus. Only 40 usec are needed to check if there are objects in focus.

This unit works on reflected laserlight. No more leaserbeams are needed, no more long arms to put the receivers on the top of the system. The full distance is now free between camera and insects. The unit works in full dark or even in full bright sun. Sensivity can by adjusted by mean of a simple potmeter. To work in full dark 2 to 4 extra high power leds are added. 2 of this high power leds are UV leds at 405nm. This UV light attrack some insects inflight.

Pony Palace!

Image by eilonwy77
The idea was to make something big enough that Madeleine could hide in it. I don't think we're done yet, but we're making progress!

A lot of rooms aren't visible in this photo, such as the 2 bedrooms, kitchen, hallway, and most of the playground area.

Photoshop Collage

Image by origami_madness
I was recently given access to a computer with (among other things) Adobe CS3, which I used to make this collage. I can use the computer until June, at which point I will probably switch to an open-source alternative, such as GIMP.

In the bottom section, there is a 2nd degree logarithmic corrugation; on the right-hand side is an abstract pleated form that I made to try out some 3-d pleating techniques, and on the left is the opening of my cone, which Geogami asked me to post a picture of. The background is a 16-sided flower tower with the bottom opened up.

Rose Disneyland California

Image by Kent Freeman
One of the many roses outside Princes Aurora's castle.

Actually I had just swapped lens to my 300mm lens to take a few pictures of Princes Aurora from a discrete distance when she left. That left me with the wrong lens on the camera. Being the energy conserving person that I am (aka lazy) I decided to shoot the flowers with the 300mm which means I'm shooting from about 8 feet (2.4 m).

I shot this at -0.7 EV to tone down the brightness and increase the saturation. There is a slight crop to this photo (a little off the sides) and there has been a small increase in gobal contrast and saturation.