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Thursday, June 29, 2006
Monday, June 26, 2006
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
Roebling Panoramic HDR(2) Draft
This is a panoramic project I'm working on this summer. The Roebling bridge is to be closed in the fall for repair. My goal is to get a few good images before then. I shot my first set today. Todays goal was to work out the details of the shoot. This panoramic is 24 images meshed together in two tools (Photomatix and Photoshop CS2). The lighting was a bit uneven. You can see the sun angle in the images.
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
It's a big world out there!
Hemiptera is a large, cosmoplitan order of insects, comprising some 67,500 known species in three suborders. Traditionally these taxa were treated as two separate orders, Homoptera (= Auchenorrhyncha plus Sternorrhyncha) and Heteroptera; the former name is now obsolete (the group was paraphyletic), and the latter name is falling into disuse, often replaced by Prosorrhyncha. Members of the "Heteroptera" are typically called "true bugs". The name heteroptera comes from their forewings having both membranous and hard portions. It is also essentially this same feature which gives the order its name, hemiptera, coming from the Greek for half-wing.
Members of the Hemiptera are distinguished from all other insects by both adults and nymphs having symmetrical piercing and sucking mouthparts housed in a long "beak". They are thus limited to a liquid diet. Most species feed on plant juices, including seeds, but some species are predatory (on arthropods and sometimes small animals), and a few are adapted to suck blood from mammals.
From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera