A couple of pictures from my hotel room, one taken about five hours ago…
…and another taken just about an hour ago…
You need a lot of lights for 13.1 million people!
Copyright © Ted C. MacRae 2011
A couple of pictures from my hotel room, one taken about five hours ago…
…and another taken just about an hour ago…
You need a lot of lights for 13.1 million people!
Copyright © Ted C. MacRae 2011
It seems therefore that a taste for collecting beetles is some indication of future success in life!--Charles Darwin
I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capture of rare beetles.--Charles Darwin
The Creator, if He exists, must have an inordinate fondness for beetles.--J. B. S. Haldane
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Ted C. MacRae is an agricultural research entomologist with "an inordinate fondness for beetles." Primary expertise includes taxonomy and host associations of wood-boring beetles, with more recent interest also in tiger beetle survey and conservation. I am currently serving as Managing Editor of the The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, Layout Editor for the journal Cicindela and Newsletter Editor for the Webster Groves Nature Study Society. Visit me also at these other sites:
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Great nightscape shot Ted. You took it when there was still light in the sky. Wonderful!
Thanks, Kurt – I rarely have such a view from my hotel rooms! The light was perfect.
Ted,
I admit I was expecting photos of bedbugs or roaches!!!
No pest problems in this hotel – a little ritzier my normal digs.
Great shots. Can you give some insight on your method on the night shot?
Thanks, Bryan. I wish I could say that I put a lot of thought into how I did this, but honestly I just bumped the ISO way up (1600), opened up the lens (f/5.7), and braced the camera steady against a window beam for a 1.3 sec exposure (no tripod in my bag of tricks). Perfect timing on the just-set sun was the key – it was already dark enough that all the building and traffic lights were on, but there was still enough light to bring out the colors in the sky. The patchy clouds added some nicely contrasting texture to all the sharp lines.
And what are you up to in (let me guess) Buenos Aires?
Resting up from an overnight flight on a crowded, cramped airplane with very uncomfortable seats! An Ambien did the trick, however, and I had a little time to play before visiting field trials that I’ve got going in different areas. Even though it’s soybean fields rather than the Ecuadorian rain forest, it’s still pretty nice to get paid to look for bugs in foreign lands!
Okay, your message implies you hadn’t yet seen the next post to know this was Buenos Aires, so I’ll give you 2 bonus points in the current BitB Challenge session for guessing the city. Now with 4 points, you’ve still got some work to do to catch up with current leaders Dave Hubble, Troy Bartlett, and HBG Dave! 🙂