Note: Over the years the focus of my website has shifted more towards climbing trip reports, so I stopped actively updating my photography section around 2015 or so. But, there are still several great photos here, so enjoy!
Pacific Science Center Butterfly Room, Seattle, WA
On July 26, 2006, I went to the butterfly room in the Pacific Science Center in Seattle and spent a few hours having fun with my macro lens. Here are a few of my favorite photos.
Click here to go to my page devoted to my bug photography.
Click here to go to my page devoted to my bug photography.
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I revisited the tropical butterfly room in May 2010 and had some more fun with my macro lens. Many of the butterflies were the same and some were new. Here are a few more photos.
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Butterfly Pavilion Denver, CO
On June 4, 2023 — now living in Estes Park, Colorado — I spent an unseasonably rainy day at the Butterfly Pavilion. It was fun to dust off my macro lens for a day.
*Shallow puddles enable ripples, because they are much thinner than they are wide. The balance between the surface force – between the water puddle and the air above it – and the gravitational force tips in favor of surface force. This is key, since the surface force depends on the curvature of the water surface, whereas the gravitational force does not. Here is a great article about the mathematics of a raindrop hitting a puddle. I always wanted to spend my life researching the mathematics of stuff like this, but somehow my PhD studies never led to anything quite so fascinating.
