UP Nature Notes (Blog)
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More Fun with Backlighting: Silhouettes - UP Nature Notes , No. 27
February 22, 2025
In the previous Note, I showed how to use backlighting to create sun bursts. Shooting toward the sun can also be used creatively in other way, but it’s tricky due to the extremes of brightness involved. The shadowed subject is often underexposed at the same time the sunny background is…
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Sunbursts to Celebrate the Sun’s Return - UP Nature Notes, No. 26
January 31, 2025
In the northern hemisphere, we are now (early February) half way from the Winter Solstice to the Vernal Equinox, and the daylight hours are noticeably longer. Many cultural traditions celebrated this time of hope and expectation with feasts and ceremonies. To the ancient Celts it was Imbolc (‘in the belly’…
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Conservation Priorities and Puffballs - UP Nature Notes, No. 25
October 27, 2024
At the UN’s biodiversity conference in October 2024, a “Fungal Conservation Pledge” was proposed stating that fungi should receive protection status equal to that of animals and plants. Fungi are responsible for generating and maintaining much of the life we see above ground. Fungi form symbiotic relationships with bushes and…