Thursday 28 April 2016
BBC Wiltshire/Wednesday 4th May 12.30
Graham Seaman will chat to Peter Read on the subject of photo developing and the change from film to digital. Why not listen in?
Wednesday 27 April 2016
Exhibition Microsculpture Oxford University Museum of Natural History 27 May – 30 October 2016
Microsculpture presents the insect collection of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History like never before. The result of a collaboration between the Museum and photographer Levon Biss, this series of beautifully-lit, high magnification portraits captures the microscopic form of insects in striking large-format and high-resolution detail.
On show in the main court of the Museum, surrounded by stunning Neo-Gothic architecture, the largest of Microsculpture’s photographic prints measure up to three metres across and surround the visitor. Seen alongside the tiny insect specimens themselves, this huge transformation of scale offers a unique viewing experience.
Text provides information about each creature in the show, while the photographs allow visitors to scrutinise tiny structures up close and then step back to take in the beauty of the insect as a whole.
The Museum of Natural History receives around 650,000 visitors a year and was a Finalist in the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2015. Its internationally-important insect collection contains more than seven million specimens drawn from every country in the world, including specimens from some of the most remote regions and islands. Combined, the Museum’s collections represent a vast repository of information on biodiversity.
The entomology collection also has significant cultural and historical value, containing the world’s oldest pinned insect specimen and many thousands of insects collected by pioneering Victorian explorers and biologists such as Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
www.oum.ox.ac.uk
On show in the main court of the Museum, surrounded by stunning Neo-Gothic architecture, the largest of Microsculpture’s photographic prints measure up to three metres across and surround the visitor. Seen alongside the tiny insect specimens themselves, this huge transformation of scale offers a unique viewing experience.
Text provides information about each creature in the show, while the photographs allow visitors to scrutinise tiny structures up close and then step back to take in the beauty of the insect as a whole.
The Museum of Natural History receives around 650,000 visitors a year and was a Finalist in the Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year 2015. Its internationally-important insect collection contains more than seven million specimens drawn from every country in the world, including specimens from some of the most remote regions and islands. Combined, the Museum’s collections represent a vast repository of information on biodiversity.
The entomology collection also has significant cultural and historical value, containing the world’s oldest pinned insect specimen and many thousands of insects collected by pioneering Victorian explorers and biologists such as Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
www.oum.ox.ac.uk
Formed at scales too tiny for us to perceive and with astonishing complexity, the true structure and beauty of insects remains mostly hidden. Their intricate shapes, colours and microsculpture are dizzying in their variety, but it takes the power of an optical microscope or camera lens to experience insects at their own scale.
At high magnification the surface of even the plainest looking beetle or fly is completely transformed as details of their microsculpture become visible: ridges, pits or engraved meshes all combine at different spatial scales in a breath-taking intricacy. It is thought that these microscopic structures alter the properties of the insect’s surface in different ways, reflecting sunlight, shedding water, or trapping air.
Alongside these elements are minute hairs adapted for many purposes. They can help insects grip smooth surfaces, carry pollen, or detect movements in the air, to name but a few. The shape of these hairs is sometimes modified into flattened scales – structures so small they appear like dust to the naked eye. In some insects, such as butterflies and beetles, these scales scatter and reflect light, creating some of the most vibrant and intense colours seen in nature.
The evolutionary process of natural selection should account for all this wonderful diversity of microstructures, but for many species their specific adaptive function is still unknown. By observing insects in the wild, studying museum collections, and developing new imaging techniques we will surely learn more about these fascinating creatures and close the gaps in our current understanding.
Dr James Hogan
Life Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
At high magnification the surface of even the plainest looking beetle or fly is completely transformed as details of their microsculpture become visible: ridges, pits or engraved meshes all combine at different spatial scales in a breath-taking intricacy. It is thought that these microscopic structures alter the properties of the insect’s surface in different ways, reflecting sunlight, shedding water, or trapping air.
Alongside these elements are minute hairs adapted for many purposes. They can help insects grip smooth surfaces, carry pollen, or detect movements in the air, to name but a few. The shape of these hairs is sometimes modified into flattened scales – structures so small they appear like dust to the naked eye. In some insects, such as butterflies and beetles, these scales scatter and reflect light, creating some of the most vibrant and intense colours seen in nature.
The evolutionary process of natural selection should account for all this wonderful diversity of microstructures, but for many species their specific adaptive function is still unknown. By observing insects in the wild, studying museum collections, and developing new imaging techniques we will surely learn more about these fascinating creatures and close the gaps in our current understanding.
Dr James Hogan
Life Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Thursday 21 April 2016
New Lee Filters - ND Grads & Super Stopper
We are very pleased to announce a new range of camera
filter products for our Seven5, 100mm and SW150 Filter
Systems.
We have expanded our range of Neutral Density Graduated
Filters. Now alongside the traditional hard and soft
gradations, photographers can also choose very hard and
medium gradations, giving more control than ever when it
comes to balancing exposures in-camera.
We are also pleased to announce the introduction of the
Super Stopper, with its 15 stops of light-reducing power,
the Super Stopper sits at the head of the Stopper family,
joining the Big and Little Stoppers in the long-exposure
photography revolution.
More information may be found on the attached PDF and on
our website.
Please do not hesitate to contact your nearest LEE Dealer for more
information.
Kind Regards
LEE Filters
Tuesday 19 April 2016
PAGB News No. 161 and 161 extra
Click HERE to read both parts
Notice that 161 extra is all about the new Projected Image size that the PAGB wish to make universal viz. from Jan 2018 1600 x 1200 pixels cf 1400 x 1050 pixels currently. New projectors all round!
Notice that 161 extra is all about the new Projected Image size that the PAGB wish to make universal viz. from Jan 2018 1600 x 1200 pixels cf 1400 x 1050 pixels currently. New projectors all round!
Sunday 10 April 2016
SCPF AGM 8th May 2016 Littleton
Hi folks,
The SCPF AGM is to be held on Sunday 8th May, 10.00am at Littleton Millennium Memorial Hall, SO22 6QL.
The Constitution, along with the Nomination form for Council, are on the website.
The details for Finals Day, which follows the AGM on Sunday 8th May, are also on the website.
The Agenda for the AGM will be sent out next w/e.
Regards, Sue Teagle Secretary, SCPF
The SCPF AGM is to be held on Sunday 8th May, 10.00am at Littleton Millennium Memorial Hall, SO22 6QL.
The Constitution, along with the Nomination form for Council, are on the website.
The details for Finals Day, which follows the AGM on Sunday 8th May, are also on the website.
The Agenda for the AGM will be sent out next w/e.
Regards, Sue Teagle Secretary, SCPF
Saturday 2 April 2016
PAGB News No 160
Click the link to read HERE
For those intending to get their CPAGB there an important message. They are to make it harder to achieve sometime.
For those intending to get their CPAGB there an important message. They are to make it harder to achieve sometime.
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