Macrothylacia rubi

The complicated caterpillar

Macrothylacia rubi

Creating series for Development is challenging in a number of ways; I’ve written blogs before about big or really small animals, but in my opinion, the biggest challenge has to be animals that go through a big transformation, like some insects (caterpillar to butterfly or larvae to beetle) or amphibians. With these series, timing is of the essence; you want to illustrate the whole process as clearly as possible, without missing any important stages. This also applies to the newest insect species of Development, the Fox moth – Macrothylacia rubi. Read more

Lakenvelder

How to photograph a newborn calf against a white background?

Lakenvelder

This week I faced a new challenge; photographing a newborn calf. Earlier, I’ve written a blog about shooting really small animals and how I do this, but what happens if an animal is already quite large at birth? So far, the largest animal was the Dutch pied goat and she just barely fitted on my standard table top set-up. That obviously wasn’t the case with the calf, so I had to come up with a new plan. Read more