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Very well said, also many other non bees are also pollinators, such as butterflies, some beetles.. even ants. Any flower is a hotspot of life.

Tangential, have a look at a Gaussian splat of a honeybee I recently captured: https://superspl.at/scene/3ae6a716


That is spectacular. Can you keep the camera still and let the bee fly?

That’s amazing! How did you capture it at that resolution?

And building your "agency" around a sole platform..


They say they also run on Google and Tiktok


Capture Gaussian splats of Christmas cookies: https://superspl.at/view?id=bd964899


From the article:

...AI is currently the subject of great enthusiasm. If that enthusiasm doesn’t produce a bubble conforming to the historical pattern, that will be a first.


If you want to see a mosquito and it's proboscis up close, I recently scanned one into a gaussian splat: https://superspl.at/view?id=b4cbf5d6


I had no idea a DSLR with a macro lens could get you this close. Would you mind sharing more about the process?

The bee is even more impressive: https://superspl.at/view?id=ac0acb0e



That's an incredible technique I had no idea about, thank you


Thanks, interesting site. Tried to scroll down to find the "about" link but inf-scrolled. /about didn't work too.


That is a really great scan!


Sick!!


This sounds a lot like Learned helplessness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness


> Most of the Group 3 dogs—which had previously learned that nothing they did had any effect on shocks—simply lay down passively and whined when they were shocked

What a cruel time for experimenting on animals the 1960s were...


Animal cruelty is alive and well in the factory farming industry, at a yearly scale orders of magnitude higher than the sum of all research experimentation in science during the 1960s.


It all kind of depends on each other. More light, means longer recycle times on the speedlights or higher iso, more noise. Longer exposure isn't an option with speedlights, using continuous also has it's downsides, things may start to shake..


The bumblebee was my first attempt, the tracking didn't quite work, so you get ghosting. Others too have ghosting, usually happens when part of the insect moves, while shooting (which takes 4h). They dry and crumble after a while.


That would be awesome if it worked, from a curious look I can't say why not. I'll have to investigate a bit more. Thanks for bringing it up.


Thanks for pointing that out, fixed it.


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