{"id":8787,"date":"2024-08-05T18:41:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T18:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8787"},"modified":"2024-08-05T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T18:48:10","slug":"pondlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8787","title":{"rendered":"Pondlife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The other evening I tried photographing some invertebrates in a very small (about 1ft square) pond in our garden. I also tried seeing what it all looks like using ultra-violet fluorescence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had noticed that during the evening some invertebrates were surfacing near a rock placed in the pond. So this is what I concentrated on. The invertebrates, according to a guide I downloaded are ‘2-spot water slaters’ or ‘water lice’. Here is a selection of photos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Water slaters at the surface by a rock in the pond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A second view of the invertebrates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A small frog surfaces whilst I was taking the photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These next photos show Ultra violet fluorescence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The green weed fluoresces red whilst the water turns a milky blue-white<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This photo shows the frog under UV: Its skin is black but the eyes are milky white<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finally the setup for the flash photos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2 flashguns with small softboxes provide illumination for the camera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

An interesting exercise: not only have I learnt something about photography, I have also learned the name of an invertebrate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other evening I tried photographing some invertebrates in a very small (about 1ft square) pond in our garden. I also tried seeing what it all looks like using ultra-violet fluorescence. We had noticed that during the evening some invertebrates were surfacing near a rock placed in the pond. So this is what I concentrated … Continue reading “Pondlife”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,52,93,24,3,94,128,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fluorescence","category-garden","category-insects","category-nature","category-photography","category-staffordshire","category-ultra-violet","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8796,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8787\/revisions\/8796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}