http://www.s131567196.onlinehome.us/products/minisystem.asp The above light sources look awesome for macrophotography, though I have no direct knowledge. Alas, I looked 'em up at B&H after hearing about them, and kind of gagged, though: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/418757-REG/Litepanels_MP_...

Someone in Oregon has a "better" source of energy. Burn up green 1990s-vintage Ford Escorts! Sheesh....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29499420/

I snagged a copy of "The Pond" for twenty one cents plus shipping! ($4.20 total). Thanks for the recommendation, Rik, it does sound like a good read.

What a shot! I assume this is a stack? Great job...

If you want to build your own you just need a Hamamatsu focussed x-ray source, a scintilator with tapered fibre optic intensifier feeding to a 12 mega-pixel camera. Oh and a stepper motor :) ] This can actually be done surprisingly easily. There are some photographers who market GORGEOUS X-ray shot...

This might explain why airport security X-Rays are not such a problem to photographic film as we might expect. Not to beat a dead horse, but if you put your film in your CHECKED baggage, they may be exposed to more powerful X-rays that may damage your images. We wear dosimetry equipment to monitor ...

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/62_CalvinDaydreamBandW4972_1.jpg A huge Tyrannosaurus greets us at the entrance....I can't help thinking of the old Calvin & Hobbes strips where Calvin would fantasize about the dinosaurs at the museum coming alive and stomping and devouring all the hum...

"the ghost is a volunteer..." That's rich!

I'd heard the "invisible idiot" one somewhere also.

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/62_mcgregorpitvipport0415_1.jpg Like nearly all of my snakes, this is a captive subject, and his colors are spectacular. I wish the stem in front of him wasn't there, but I wasn't about to try to reach in and grab it, even if I could've done so! There i...

Great find Ken! I've seen your shots of other victims here, but have never seen this myself. I'd love to photograph it, though I suspect I'd be rather creeped out! Good idea to photograph it under controlled conditions. Did you get any environmental shots before you collected it? My suspicion is tha...

Good show, there's no such thing as too many snake shots! (I've contributed more than my share here in the past).

When I was young and computers filled rooms and took input from punched cards, I was trying to become a computer programmer (I ended up graduating in another field entirely) and took a class on "computers and society". We talked about machine translations, and Rik's two-way translation test was disc...

I'm glad somebody is doing that, but I don't think I'd want the job of comparing the lungs of scorpions to each other!

Did you see the side link to the article about giant sea scorpions that were longer than a man is tall? I'm glad they aren't around anymore!

Lovely subject, but I have no idea what it is. With the EOS 10D and Vivitar macro lens, you have my first actual macro setup from a few years back! You can do a lot of good work with that combination. The Vivitar had to be the most bang for the buck in the macro world. I gave mine away to a poor fri...

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/62_baronsgreenracerW0407_1.jpg I've posted these snakes here before, but they are very interesting critters, so Sunday when I did some photography (only the second time this winter!) I had to get some shots. Fortunately, they were doing something intere...