Nov 17th, 2017 : Macrophotography
Francesco Bagnato is a talented photographer and illustrator from Milan, Italy.
Using a Canon EOS 6D camera, he has taken an outstanding picture series of beetles. The pictures I've copied here are only 1/5 the size displayed at Behance. There are about 30 pictures, each 20 x 30 inches. http://cellar.org/2017/beetles3.jpg http://cellar.org/2017/beetles1.jpg http://cellar.org/2017/beetles2.jpg http://cellar.org/2017/beetles4.jpg With those bright shiny skins, how do they not get eaten? Yeah, I know bright colors are often a warning to predators of poison or bad taste... or a bluff. But those iridescent colors seem awfully risky just to get laid. :eyebrow: I mean we humans wouldn't consider doing risky stuff for sex. Right guys... Bueller... anyone? |
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It's the secretion of the lac beetle. Sometimes it's not called shellac; sometimes it's called "confectioner's glaze". It's used to create a shiny coating on candy, like junior mints and candy corn and jelly beans. |
By coincidence (I hope) I got this sent to me yesterday:
http://i.imgur.com/77beSl9.jpg |
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Diaphone Jim
Ah! A humbug!
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