October 2023
August 2023
Cereal leaf beetle
The Cereal Leaf Beetle is only 6 mm long and takes almost a quarter of an hour climbing a gras blade.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 21000 lux • EV 12.9
Wasp
Wasps also help with th dispersion of pollen.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 21000 lux • EV 12.9
Almost
It was thirsty weather and he almost made it.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 21000 lux • EV 12.9
Sarcophaga carnaria
The Sarcophaga carnaria also appears on plants.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 21000 lux • EV 12.9
SMD City
A city in a computer
100 mm • f/4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 11000 lux • EV 12
Poppy Seed
Poppy seed on bread crust appears to have many small details. Eating too much of it can lead to a positive drugstest.
20 mm • f/2 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1400 lux • EV 9
July 2023
Vanessa Atalanta
A Vanessa Atalanta in the late afternoon sun.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 83000 lux • EV 14.9
Drosophila
Portrait of a Drosophila From left to right 1.3 mm.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
Thursty
Thursty again. This time it is Roosvicee.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • by hand • 2600 lux • EV 9.9
Green
A common green bottle fly is enjoying the nectar of this marguerite.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • by hand • 2600 lux • EV 9.9
Back
The next day he came back for more honey, so I think I may have a pet.
25 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • by hand • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
Recovering
Recovering from a bath in mj cup of tea. When I had scooped him out it took him nearly half an hour to dry and take care of his wings and eyes so that he could fly again, after I had given him a tiny drop of honey.
25 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • by hand • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
Ink
Since 1984 quite a lot of ink has passed through.
25 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
Drowned
Drowned in the resin on a tree in the Baltic area, 45 million years ago.
25 mm • f/2.8 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
Drop
A drop hanging from a beam appears to contain an airbubble.
25 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 660 lux • EV 7.9
Jumping spider
A very small jumping spider (Schorsmarpissa Marpissa muscosa) looks at me like a guard dog.
25 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 660 lux • EV 7.9
November 2022
Middle
In the middle of an agate, you may find a quartz crystal that looks like a diamond.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 33000 lux • EV 13.6
August 2022
Fruit Fly
The eye of a fruitfly is only 0.3 mm high and so fewer facets fit in there than in the eye of a dragonfly or locust. The facets can not be made smaller without a drop in acuity of vision. And therefore small insects always see less than larger insects. However fruit flies have an excellent sense of smell. If you peel a banana at 10 meter from the insect, it will sit on it in less than a minute. (With formulas from optics it can be derived that there are about 6000 facets for every mm of eye diameter, so this fruit fly has about 1800 facets, whcih fits with the photo. It also shows that even large insects do not exceed 0.1 megapixel, which is a lot worse than most images on the internet)
100 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld • 160 lux • EV 5.9
Migrant hawker
De head of a migrant hawker Since the eyes are very big, there is a lot of space for many facets.
100 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 330 lux • EV 6.9
June 2022
Catacanthus incarnatus
An insect in the shape of the face of an indian with a pompadour hairdo.
100 mm • f/4 • 1/40 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
Solitary
There are about 300 species of solitary bees in the Netherlands, of which some are only a few millimeter long.
72 mm • f/4.5 • 1/200 sec. • 250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 4400 lux • EV 10.7
Silverberry
The scaly hairs of the silverberry.
40 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld • 870 lux • EV 8.3
Damselflies
Five damselflies in a row.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/122 sec. • 40 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 2700 lux • EV 9.9
May 2022
Time Capsule
A little fly in its time capsule in amber that formed on a tree 45 million years ago in the Baltic area.
100 mm • f/4 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 3500 lux • EV 10.3
April 2022
Bastard
The eye and eardrum of a bastard frog (Pelophylax klepton esculentus), en hybrid of a poolfrog and a lakefrog.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2000 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld • 21000 lux • EV 12.9
December 2021
Crystals
Lang icecrystals grow on a dormant plant.
400 mm • f/13 • 1/400 sec. • 10000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 1800 lux • EV 9.4
November 2021
Sailing Ship
On a dutch coin from 2016, the mint master's mark from Kees Bruinsma is placed: a sailing ship with a fivepointed star. You can see it next to the W of Willem on the photograph of yesterday.
10 mm • f/8 • 1/40 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
Underexposed
He is underexposed due to digital paying methods.
100 mm • f/8 • 1 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 44 lux • EV 4
August 2021
Dead
The last person that pressed my doorbell has killed this ant that lived in it and so my bell did not work anymore. I discovered this when I tried to find out why the bell was dead.
100 mm • f/8 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 10000 lux • EV 11.9
Whitebottom
Recorded this whitebottom in flight, looking for the last fresh flowers.
46.1 mm • f/4.5 • 1/2500 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
July 2021
Pareidolia
Pareidolia, the phenomenon that we see faces in everyday objects. It signifies something about us as social beings.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 88 lux • EV 5
Blue
The Norfolk Damselfly posed as attractive as possible with a big blue eyes.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
June 2021
Lather
Lather under high magnification (from left to right 6 mm).
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/80 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 4300 lux • EV 10.6
Bumblebee
A tiny bumblebee is enjoying the nectar.
135 mm • f/4.5 • 1/1000 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
May 2021
Storm
A storm in a glass of water. The color indicates the thickness of the soap film. When it is gray, it is thinner than the wavelength of the visible light, which is about 0.4 micron. That is the place where the film will break.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 620 lux • EV 7.8
April 2021
Vitamine D
Vitamin D crystals
10 mm • f/4 • 1/6 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 260 lux • EV 6.6
EU
Microscopic image of letters on a 10 euro note in the shiny stripe.
10 mm • f/4 • 1/6 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 260 lux • EV 6.6
March 2021
Paper
Fibers in a sheet of white paper in polarized light.
10 mm • f/4 • 1/15 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 330 lux • EV 6.9
1 Times
This red pencil has been used only once to fill in one small circle.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/40 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld • 830 lux • EV 8.2
February 2021
Pencil sharpener
The smallest pencil point sharpener I have ever used.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec. • 8000 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld • 120 lux • EV 5.5
December 2020
Rhizopus
Two sporangia of rhizopus, a fungus that grows on fruit. From these sporangia, new spores emerge that can easily distribute.
10 mm • f/2.8 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 8600 lux • EV 11.6
November 2020
Cucumber
Cross section of the stem of a cucumber in polarized light.
40 mm • f/5 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 4100 lux • EV 10.6
Motorneuron
A motorneuron activates a part of a muscle and is located in your spinal cord. The extensions receive information from other neurons.
4 mm • f/5 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 4100 lux • EV 10.6
Feather
Under the microscope you can see how a light feather makes a plane under which air can be captured.
16 mm • f/5 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 4100 lux • EV 10.6
October 2020
Italian
Baking delicious Italian bread myself. (The image can be seen in 2 ways, it may help to turn it around)
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 350 lux • EV 7
Knife
This is a very small part of a valuable japanese santoku knife. It had never been sharpened before after purchase (upper panel) and needed some work. After half an hour using 3 sharpening stones with decreasing grain size you get what you see in the lower panel.
16 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 1100 lux • EV 8.6
Dated
That looks very nice and dated, a package with so many stamps from a country far away.
4.2 mm • f/1.8 • 1/50 sec. • 125 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 350 lux • EV 7
No Point
After I returned the Buck knife to the shop because there where many hair cracks perpendicular to the cut (see the photo of 18th of September 2020), it came back. They have grinded away about 2 mm, making the hair cracks disappear. But the point of the knife has disappeared also, making part of the functionality disappear. And that is a point to me.
100 mm • f/8 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • by hand • 5200 lux • EV 10.9
Blue
Bought new black socks and they appear to be rather rough under the microscope. And how did that blue tiny piece of thread get there? I have no clothes in the house of that color.
16 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
September 2020
Defocussed
Interesting that if when you defocus a rastered photograph, you see more.
40 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 100ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 27000 lux • EV 13.3
Hair crack
When a knife (like here in the famous Buck knife) has hair cracks of 1 mm long perpedicular to the cut, because it was cooled too fast during hardening, you can not sharpen it anymore. Fortunately these knives are lifelong guaranteed.
16 mm • f/5.6 • 1/320 sec. • 100ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 27000 lux • EV 13.3
Glass
When you look at sand grains from the Sahara, they appear to look like glass marbles with which too many games have been played. From left to right 1 mm.
16 mm • f/2.8 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x37mm sensor • tripod • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
August 2020
Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes is being seen as the greatest Spanish writer, especially because of his book "Don Quixote". Here he is depicted on a 10 Eurocent piece from Spain.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 2600 lux • EV 9.9
Hard
Hard to photograph a tiny insect like this without tripod. Macro 2x with f/8 and 1/40 sec with 100mm. Just a few layers of facets in the eyes are in focus.
100 mm • f/8 • 140 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld • 1.2 lux • EV -1.1
Delft Blue
Looks a bit like a wall of Delft blue tiles, but these are cells in the root tip of an onion, that grows very fast and so some cells show sets of chromosomes that are pulled apart in two sets by thin threads that can just be seen in this image, that covers a field of 0.25 mm longest side.
2.5 mm • f/1.4 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 430 lux • EV 7.3
Flatworm
This flatworm, a small predator (7 mm) that lives in water, consists mainly of a digestive system. They do not need lungs, because they are so flat: the oxygen goes through the skin directly to the organs. The tiny spheres on the left are the eyes.
20 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
July 2020
Scales
Butterfly scales, each 0.1 mm wide, obtain their color from interference at a very thin layer. When the direction of the light changes, so does the color.
4 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 1300 lux • EV 8.9
Amber
This long leg fly (Dolichopodid) has been encapsulated in the resin of a pine tree in the Baltic area. Incredible that the facet eyes can be seen so well in the amber (a present from a friend and collegue), where they have been preserved and also the tiny hairs on the wings. From top to bottom the image covers 3 mm. The depth of field is 0.01 mm for each exposure, while the total depth of field of the stacked exposures is 1 mm.
40 mm • f/4 • 0.17 sec. • 1600 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 16 lux • EV 2.6
June 2020
Vibrations
He could feel the vibrations, while he was holding lightly on to a waterplant.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 22000 lux • EV 13
Cycle
The cycle of life can be seen nicely in this red Gerbera: Every yellow curl contains hundreds of pollen for a new start.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/2 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 43 lux • EV 4
April 2020
The Precipice
A little ant looks over the edge of the table, rethinks and turns around.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld • 2500 lux • EV 9.8
Breakfast
After a hefty breakfast of blueberry jam (he ate it all), the lonely wasp could fly away for its journey.
100 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld • 2500 lux • EV 9.8
Thirsty
This wasp was thirsty and so took a sip from my drink, while I could photograph it.
100 mm • f/16 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 21000 lux • EV 12.9
March 2020
Holes
It is always fun to try and predict the number of holes in the new leaf of the Monstera plant once it has unrolled itself.
100 mm • f/8 • 1/4 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm mm sensor • tripod • 170 lux • EV 6
February 2020
Sea Lilly
A fossil sea lilly. In contrast to what its name suggests, it was an animal with feeding arms. The beauty of this fossil is that you can see the movements of the animal in the flowing water frozen in time. From top to bottom 220 mm. The fossil is 450 million years old and the animal lived twice as long ago as the dinosaurs. (90 stacked exposures with 1mm distance)
100 mm • f/4 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 660 lux • EV 7.9
January 2020
Screw
When you look carefully at a screw meant for a wall, you can see tiny teeth in the thread, made to cut an opening.
100 mm • f4 • 1/4 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 87 lux • EV 5
December 2019
Glowing
The glowing tip of the wick becomes shorter as needed.
100 mm • f/5.6 • 1/20 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 860 lux • EV 8.3
Bilingual
The watch of my great grand father is bilingual, french and english, but was made in Amsterdam.
100 mm • f/2.8 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 36 lux • EV 3.7
50
A small part of a 50 euro note shows colors due to interference, not due to ink. In this way it resembles the wing of a butterfly. (longest side: 12.8 mm)
100 mm • f/2.8 • 1/4 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 86 lux • EV 5
October 2019
Plattboj
Lithium pills from Ikea, first you assemble them yourself and you are ready to go again.
4.2 mm • f/2.2 • 1/17 sec. • 64 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 350 lux • EV 7
Anthocyanins
Anthocyanins give the red color in these leaves and suppress the growth of other plants nearby, so that the new season can begin will in a few months time.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/40 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld • 870 lux • EV 8.3
Just wait
"Just wait until your father gets home!", she said, and they already heard his footsteps in the distance.
50 mm • f/4.5 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • handheld • 550 lux • EV 7.7
September 2019
Tumbling
The fire bugs decided to start tumbling in the seed bulbs of the hollyhocks.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 1100 lux • EV 8.6
August 2019
Wing
The wing of a housefly is covered in tiny hairs that have a function in the aerodynamics during flight.
20 mm • f/5.6 • 0.8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 54 lux • EV 4.3
Sahara
Sand grains from the Sahara come from serveral types of igneous rock and have become rounded over time, despite the lack of rain (from left to right 3 mm)
20 mm • f/5.6 • 0.8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 54 lux • EV 4.3
July 2019
Housefly
A housefly is a lot larger than a fruitfly and so has many more facets in the eyes. Furthermore the usual antennas to pick up scent molecules in the air and a magnificent exoskeleton.
20 mm • f/5.6 • 0.8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 54 lux • EV 4.3
Fruitfly
A fruitfly is very small, about 10x smaller than a housefly. That is why he has fewer facets in his eyes, since the diameter of a facet limits the resolution of the image. In total they have fewer "pixels" (about 150 in each eye) and so they see less. Therefore it is easier to catch them.
20 mm • f/5.6 • 0.8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 54 lux • EV 4.3
Sugar
A sugar crystal has angles that are due to the stacking of sugar molecules as close as possible during the crystallization process. click
20 mm • f/5.6 • 1/5 sec. • 400 ISO • 36x24mm sensor • tripod • 110 lux • EV 5.3
City
The cracks on a vase followed the paths of highest tension and by forming have influenced the landscape of tension, inviting the formation of new cracks. This process looks like the formation of streets in an old city in which street also connect by right angles to each other. click
50 mm • f/11 • 1/5 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 410 lux • EV 7.2
Silk
A silk necktie looks like this very close by. (From left to right 2mm)
20 mm • f/8 • 1/400 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Four Eyes
A frog gets two extra eyes due to the reflection in the upward curved water surface in front of him.
400 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 43000 lux • EV 13.9
Relaxing
It is quite warm outside, and so this bee rests for a while on a hollyhock
50 mm • f/10 • 1/250 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 34000 lux • EV 13.6
Tiny
This tiny moth decided to wake me in the middle of the night. So I gave her the requested attention and made a portret of her. She appears to have beautiful eyes. (From left to right 2 mm, 150 photographs with steps of 0.005 mm stacked)
20 mm • f/4 • 1/400 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
August 2018
Phaeolepiota aurea
Suddenly a Phaeolepiota aurea emerges between my plants. Indeed, it has been very moist the last few days.
50 mm • f/13 • 1/60 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Shark Teeth
When you cycle often en with power, you get shark teeth, that is a commonly known fact!
50 mm • f/9 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 8800 lux • EV 11.7
July 2018
Common Clubtail
The Common Clubtail (Gomphus vulgatissimus) is a large dragonfly with beautiful eyes.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod • 7000 lux • EV 11.3
Common Clubtail
The Common Clubtail (Gomphus vulgatissimus) is a large dragonfly with beautiful eyes.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
Match
A match head contains potassium chloride and phosphorus and some iron oxide for the red color.
20 mm • f/13 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 37000 lux • EV 13.7
Bumblebee
Bumblebees don;t dance like honey bees do for communication, but pass pollen to each other.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 3500 lux • EV 10.3
Looking
When a housefly looks at you, it does not see you in great detail, but it is very sensitive to movement. Between the facet eyes you can see an extra small eye that is functional in that respect. Also the hairs are very sensitive to air movements. So you catch a fly with a large glass that you slowly place over the fly and you slide a card onder the glass.
20 mm • f/3 • 1/160 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36mm sensor • tripod • 37000 lux • EV 13.7
Eye
Through the eye of the needle.
20 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 36x24mm sensor • tripod • 44000 lux • EV 14
Bilingual
Old watches are bilingual in indicating adjustment of speed.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/100 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 4400 lux • EV 10.6
Biter
The skull of this musk rat is built for biting. The orange color of the teeth comes from iron minerals and so you could say that they are rusted.
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 43000 lux • EV 13.9
Smiley
If you look carefully, you see a smiley in the cap of a bottle of Doggerland cider.
25 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod • 20000 lux • EV 12.8
June 2018
Small China-mark
Small China-marks fly low over the duckweed, leaving their eggs hanging from the floating leaves.
560 mm • f/8 • 1/250 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 11000 lux • EV 12
Hercules
This Hercules beetle can carry up to 1000 times his own weight.
50 mm • f/3.5 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod • 8400 lux • EV 11.6
Papilio Paris
Papilio Paris, a butterfly from India, has scales that seem toe radiate light.
20 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 1250 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod • 1600 lux • EV 9.2
Eyelets
Between the two large facet eyes of a wasp are located three small eyelets, or ocelli. They do not give a clear image of the surroundings, but help to detect movements in all directions.
15 mm • f/11 • 1/60 sec. • 400 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 5000 lux • EV 10.8
102 years
In 1916 my great grandfather received this wath on Rottumeroog. Detail of the balance wheel.
35 mm • f/4 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod • 2600 lux • EV 9.9
Again
Again the hollyhocks are flowering, close together along the stem, leaking pollen
50 mm • f/13 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 58000 lux • EV 14.4
Toothbrush
A toothbrush is quite a contstruction when you look at it from close by.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/320 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • tripod • 3400 lux • EV 10.3
Dispersion
Seeds are built to be dispersed. And so they hold on to anything that passes by. Now to find fertile soil.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/500 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 11000 lux • EV 11.9
Language
Here a conversation in the street with three layers: body language, gestures and spoken language.
50 mm • f/1.1 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 410 lux • EV 7.2
Zebra Jumping Spider
This zebra jumping spider (Salticus scenicus) is only 5 mm long, but can jump quite a distance to catch his prey. Therefore, he does not build a web.
50 mm • f/6.3 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
May 2018
Sneakers
A small part of my sneakers in focus stacking (29 images). Magnification 1:1
50 mm • f/8 • 2.5 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 8.7 lux • EV 1.7
Imperturbabile
Het was sitting imperturbabile, fresh from the water, on the bike lane. Only when the camera came within 10 cm, he jumped away.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1250 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 3300 lux • EV 10.3
Weevil
A weevil looking for something to stick his snout in.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/40 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 870 lux • EV 8.3
Rare
This coin is becoming rare with the digital payment methods nowadays.
50 mm • f/2.8 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 270 lux • EV 6.6
Dancing
In her beautiful dress, she dansed into the night.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/50 sec. • 2000 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 440 lux • EV 7.3
February 2018
Paper
A century after this book was printed, the letters still are beautifully embedded in the paper.
50 mm • f/4 • 1/6 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 130 lux • EV 5.6
Antenna
The antenna of a moth has very small silvery hairs with which they can smell at kilometers distance: one of two complex molecules are sufficient to get attracted to a possible partner. This is Antheraea Frithi Pedunculata, belonging to the family 0f Saturniidae.
50 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 660 lux • EV 7.9
Pixels
Nature sometimes also works with pixels that change color depending on the incident light. This is a small part of the wing of a butterfly (Papilio Paris)
50 mm • f/8 • 1/30 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 660 lux • EV 7.9
October 2017
Lift
A very small snail offers a lift to an even smaller fly.
90 mm • f/5.6 • 1/25 sec. • 1250 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 170 lux • EV 6
September 2017
Family Affair
The nest of firebugs are growing up quickly. Their back pattern still needs further developing, looking like that of the mother, who serves as transportation.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/125 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 2000 lux • EV 9.5
June 2017
Landscape
A Hollyhock is a whole landscape for an ant of a small species.
8.8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/250 sec. • 100 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 3900 lux • EV 10.5
January 2017
Stockings
Just love the delicate fabric of a woman's stocking, here at a magnification of 200 times.
90 mm • f/22 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 4100 lux • EV 10.6
Walnut
A walnut has a shape that inspires association, so there is always that decision to make: keep looking, or eating.
90 mm • f/22 • 1/25 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 4100 lux • EV 10.6
October 2016
Firebugs
Firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus) on my frontdoor. They suck juice out of plants and love meetings.
47 mm • f/16 • 1/100 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Sparkle
The sparkle in the fake eye of this owl butterfly (Caligo memnon) is position at the top and even has interreuptions as would be the case due to obstructions from branches of the sky light. It is a very effective way to deter birds, since they also reflect ultraviolet light, which can be seen by birds. The developed pattern in the mosaic of butterfly scales is a great example of a product of the evolutionairy process.
50 mm • f/16 • 8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 44 lux • EV 4
Elvis is alive!
Elvis is alive again! Mind the species name! Catacanthus Incarnatus (Indonesia)
50 mm • f/16 • 8 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 44 lux • EV 4
September 2016
Matches
Very old domestic appliance, but still used.
50 mm • f/9.5 • 1/1.4286 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 180 lux • EV 6
August 2016
Razor
The ideal combination of three sensor chips and a programmable processor for sensor fusion. And now, lets move!
50 mm • f/8 • 1/45 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 3900 lux • EV 10.5
April 2016
Dapalis Macrurus
About 28 million years ago, this fish (member of the perch family) was swimming in the sea that also still covered the Netherlands. Even the eye pigment is preserved.
90 mm • f/16 • 4 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 87 lux • EV 5
Ground Beetle
Carabus auriculatus crosses a cycle path in a hurry.
8.8 mm • f/7.1 • 1/80 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 5500 lux • EV 11
January 2016
Carrying Surface
The carrying surface for a bird is made by coupling of thin threads on microscopic scale in their feathers.
40 mm • f/2.4 • 1/50 sec. • 500 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 160 lux • EV 5.8
August 2015
Not Alone
In nature you are rarely alone.
180 mm • f/2.8 • 1/1600 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 4300 lux • EV 10.6
June 2015
Spiral
Sempervivum grows in a spiral of which the rate of growth is proportional to the length of the leaves.
8.8 mm • f/5.6 • 1/80 sec. • 125 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 5500 lux • EV 11
Prepare for Landing
This bumblebee has done a lot of good things for the flowers with his filled knees and so he can land another time.
8.8 mm • f/10 • 1/30 sec. • 200 ISO • 25.4mm sensor • handheld • 4100 lux • EV 10.6
October 2014
Landscape
Where the desert embraces the forest. In a rhododendron leaf in spring. From left to right 20 km. No, I mean 20 mm.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/4 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 660 lux • EV 7.9
September 2014
Green Algae
A small colony of green algae has settled on my window pane. It is situated right on the border of being a multicellular organism.
50 mm • f/11 • 1/12 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 2000 lux • EV 9.5
July 2014
Lightning
Lightning emerges from drying paint. An image of the heavens on the square inch.
90 mm • f/4 • 1/2000 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 44000 lux • EV 14
Eye to Eye
Eye to eye with another being. How would she perceive me?
50 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 66000 lux • EV 14.6
Tipping Point
There is a tipping point between beauty and ugliness. But where exactly is that point?
50 mm • f/1.4 • 1/750 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 2000 lux • EV 9.5
Home Grown
Home grown. They are tiny, but delicious!
135 mm • f/9.5 • 1.5 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 82 lux • EV 4.9
Bumblebee
This bumblebee came from outside and sat down quite dazed for a while.
50 mm • f/16 • 1/125 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
June 2013
Little Snail
Enjoying the rainy weather, a snail finds his/her way.
90 mm • f/4.8 • 1/90 sec. • 2000 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 280 lux • EV 6.7
Cogs
The cogs have been worn out. Up to three times bodyweight was their load. Only four of the cogs do not meet the standard anymore. That's what you get in the Netherlands when only the wind is your opponent.
35 mm • f/11 • 1/12 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 2000 lux • EV 9.5
February 2013
Snow Hats
A stack of razor sharp crystals form hats of snow this morning for the red berries.
90 mm • f/9.5 • 1/30 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 4600 lux • EV 10.7
August 2012
Composite
The heart of a small composite flower shows how the partial flowers emerge. The plant cells that are visible here undergo changes in turgor (pressure) through which the buds pop open.
40 mm • f/4 • 1/8 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 350 lux • EV 7
January 2012
Nine Fingers
For some reason you feel coming short when someone hands you a leaf like this.
105 mm • f/8 • 1/5 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • handheld • 220 lux • EV 6.3
Kick-Up
The kick-up of a bottle is the dimple in the bottom. There are several functions and explanations for it. When serving the wine, you can put your thumb in the kick-up. The bottle is stronger. The bottle stands more stable. When storing the bottle lying down, the cork of one bottle can go into the kick-up of the next, making storage more stable. Etc.
105 mm • f/13 • 1/13 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 6000 lux • EV 11.1
September 2011
Four Negative Lenses
In the cocktail stick, four tiny negative lenses are formed by tonic, that offer a view of the same scene from different viewpoints. You see the weirdest things sometimes, while waiting for a woman.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/125 sec. • 320 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 6800 lux • EV 11.3
Coffee with Milk
When you put milk in your coffee, you get these kinds of dynamic sculptures.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 66000 lux • EV 14.6
The Web
At a distance of only fourty cross threads, lunch is being served.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 66000 lux • EV 14.6
Nature's Magnifiers
These rainsdrops on the last hollyhock of the season are little magnifiers. Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek saw plant cells for the first time with his microscope, consisting of only one lens, but these raindrops also allows seeing the plantcells of the petals. The smallest drops provide the highest magnification, due to the increased curvature of the water surface, maintained by the surface tension.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 132000 lux • EV 15.6
All Edges Gilt
This is 1.5 mm of a book, seen on the guilded edges. You can see individual pages stacked like boards. A beautiful bearer of information.
12 mm • f/2.4 • 1/50 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 390 lux • EV 7.2
Cross Spider
A spider starts a web by shooting a thread to an anker point, after which it creates a web with a simple set of rules without keeping an overview of the result.
105 mm • f/11 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
August 2011
Scales as pixels
Part of the eye on the lower wing of the Papilio Paris: a little image that is built from scales. The image covers 1 mm. in vertical direction. For an overview, see here: click
12 mm • f/2.4 • 8 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 0.5 lux • EV -2.5
Crane Fly
This crane fly sat on my kitchen wall. It has less facets in its eyes than flies or bees, because its eyes are smaller and the size of facets is limited by diffraction: more and smaller facets would not give a sharper image. The halters, which are used for flight navigation, can be seen at the level of the hind legs as small round bulbs. The image covers 10 mm from left to right.
100 mm • f/13 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 92000 lux • EV 15
Nautilus
This negative fossil impression of a Nautilus in very hard stone is concave, but seems convex when turned around.
100 mm • f/6.3 • 1.3 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 83 lux • EV 4.9
Two hollyhock seeds
Most hollyhocks have bloomed and the first seeds are liberated. Ready to be carried by the fur of some animal. (magnification large version: 55x on schreen, diameter of a seed: 5 mm)
50 mm • f/5.6 • 1/200 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 17000 lux • EV 12.6
Zenith 420 caliber
The 420 caliber in a Zenith El Primo watch beats 8 times per second and is consequently very precise.
105 mm • f/5.6 • 1/50 sec. • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 4300 lux • EV 10.6
Euro on its side
The euro is on its side the last two weeks
135 mm • f/11 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 100 lux • EV 5.2
June 2011
Hollyhock Pollen
Hollyhock pollen are already available. They are tiny sticky balls, too small to see with the naked eye, but they carry half of the genetic information of the plant. From top to bottom: 0.7 mm. Focusstacking with 10 images
8 mm • f/2.4 • 1/60 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 940 lux • EV 8.4
Merlot Close Up
Crystals of a dried drop of Merlot between crossed pola filters. From left to right the image covers 0.5 mm.
8 mm • f/1.2 • 1/30 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 120 lux • EV 5.4
December 2010
Tiny Hoarfrosted Web
The morning mist forms hoarfrost on this tiny web.
90 mm • f/8 • 1/500 sec. • 640 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • without tripod • 14000 lux • EV 12.3
November 2010
Peacock Wingpattern
The pattern on the wing of a Peacock is formed by tiny scales, that each have their own color and by a transparent overlay together form new colors. The pigment is expressed by genes, that are sensitive for local circumstances. For details, see this paper: click Magnification on screen of the large version: 100 times.
40 mm • f/4.5 • 2 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 17 lux • EV 2.7
October 2010
Jig-Saw Connection
The skullbones of a dear have grown together with jig-saw like connections that are self organising and different in every animal. (Focus stack of 18 images)
90 mm • f/8 • 1/8 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 870 lux • EV 8.3
Larger than life
Nib of a fountain pen in 15 exposures and composed to get an extended depth of field, to show everything in focus. Due to diffraction (bending of light rays at a small lens opening), it is impossible to make such an image on 24x36mm without combining images. When the aperture is sufficiently stopped down (f/2048), you have lost all detail in the image due to diffraction and the nib cannot even be recongized in the picture.
50 mm • f/10 • 1/6 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1000 lux • EV 8.6
Koh-i-Noor
The Koh-i-Noor is a diamond of 109 carat, found in India. The last pushbutton on this card has the same name as brand name. The claim that it is stainless, is not falsified, even after 65 years.
90 mm • f/22 • 1/3.3333 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 2800 lux • EV 10
September 2010
Turning Leaf
A turning leaf in the rain. The chlorophyll in a green leaf absorbs both red and blue light, leaving green left to reflect to our eye. In this leaf the red absorbing component disappears first and so the leaf turns yellow, since when you take blue light out of white light, you are left with the complement colour of blue, which is yellow.
65 mm • f/22 • 1/4 sec. • 160 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 3300 lux • EV 10.2
May 2010
Solitairy wasp
A solitairy wasp builds her nest. She chews plant fibers and glues them together (left panel) and inspects the cells she made by sticking her head into them (right panel).
145 mm • f/22 • 1/15 sec. • 200 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 9900 lux • EV 11.8
Varroamites
The varroamite forms the most important threat to the bee population in the Netherlands. The parasites attach to the bee and suck hempolymph. The bee becomes weaker and very passive. It does try to actively remove the mites, but can not reach the ones on the back. Here two adventurers are on their way to the breast area over the wing.
105 mm • f/5.6 • 1/100 sec. • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 1100 lux • EV 8.6
April 2010
Trabeculae
Sections of a human thighbone show the subtle architecture of bone trabeculae: a wonder of architecture, because they adapt to the reigning loads, something that a building or piece of furniture can not do.
20 mm • f/2.5 • 1/20 sec. • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 170 lux • EV 6
March 2010
Liberty
A small part of a coin of 1 dollar cent. Liberty, that in the US often is combined with miserable circumstances.
40 mm • f/9 • 2.5 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 88 lux • EV 5
Willow ament
The willow aments are almost exploding in a yellow cloud of pollen. Just a week to go.
90 mm • f/22 • 2 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 60mm bellowsextension • tripod • 660 lux • EV 7.9
February 2010
Vibrating water
When you vibrate a thin layer of water over a white piece of cloth, you get standing wavelets, that because of their lens actions, magnify the threads of the cloth and because of their chromatic aberration bring colour into the image. It has something organic, something of a primitive colony of jellyfish
105 mm • f/22 • 1/200 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 66000 lux • EV 14.6
Can on the road
When this can is taken up into a process, it can be recycled and used for the material from which the car was made that flattened it. A cycling of material and a cycling of forces.
20 mm • f/4.5 • 1/80 sec. • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 4400 lux • EV 10.7
Book of Sand
"The Book of Sand" appears high on my list of literature. When I read it for the first time, it suddenly disappeared and I found it back, months later: it fell out of the sleeping room window en had been rained wet and dried up again between the plants. The book became twice as thick, but was still readable. Because sand got stuck between the pages, the book literally had become of sand and in that state I have kept it ever since. The thicknened paper fibers and bumpy pages give the impression of a sand landscape and that fits so well with the magic realism of Borges.
24 mm • f/22 • 1 sec. • 400 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • tripod • 330 lux • EV 6.9
January 2010
Fifty!
Karen celebrates her fiftieth birthday today. Congratulations! (The colors come from interference of twee different reflecting rays. At different places on the label, the distance travelled of the rays vary, and thus different colors, or wavelengths are amplified, much like the colors occurring on a CD-Rom, on a soap bubble, insect eyes and some fish eyes)
90 mm • f/11 • 1/3 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 60mm bellowextension • tripod • 990 lux • EV 8.5
November 2009
Wooden landscape
Whitewood is popular because of its high growth rate, which can be seen from the distances between the annual rings. The wood is softer there where it grew faster in the spring and summer. When the wood is sawn into boards and left outside, de soft parts erode faster and you get this wonderful landscape of wood.
20 mm • f/13 • 1/160 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 74000 lux • EV 14.7
Eye in colorprint
Color prints in books consist of four color rasters, cyan, magenta, yellow and black. By varying the size of the dots of the four layers, the endcolor is mixed when looking at it. Therefore it is important that the color dots each have their own place, hence the rasters. Else the colors would not add, but subtract from each other. The distance between adjacent dots of the same color is called the "dot pitch" and determines in part the quality of the print. The is pitch here is 0.14 mm, which is 180 dpi. This is the left eye of Milla Jovovich, photographed by Bettina Rheims and reproduced on page 159 of "PhotoBox", published by Thames and Hudson.
40 mm • f/8 • 1/20 sec • 200 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • without tripod • 72 mm bellowsextension • magnification 87x in the large picture • 1700 lux • EV 9.3
Candle flame
The flame of a candle has an enormous range of color temperatures from 2.000 degrees Kelvin (almost red) to 10.000 degrees Kelving (deep blue). This is the case because of the different circumstances in which the candle grease burns. The light of the candle is given by glowing carbon particles. In the flame there is not sufficient oxygen for complete combustion, but at the base of the flame fresh air is attracted and the temperature reaches the highest values en we see blue light. The funny thing is that we associate blue often with "cool" and red with "warm, but in actual temperature, it is the other way around.
90 mm • f/16 • 1/8 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 70 mm bellowsextension • 5600 lux • EV 11
Europe on 5 cents
On a coin of 5 eurocent, Europe is depicted on a globe. Just like the real Europe, it has a hard time due to the impact of other financial items.
40 mm • f8 • 1/3 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 80 mm bellows extension 100x magnification in the large picture • 520 lux • EV 7.6
Tension in a cup
Plexiglass is an optically active material, that changes its properties when mechanically loaded. A cup made from plexiglass shows many colored patterns due to to its shape, which show in polarised light.
90 mm • f/11 • 1/30 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 9900 lux • EV 11.8
Narcistic ladybird
This ladybird was so narcistic that she climbed up my reflecting espresso cup, to gaze at this pretty little animal.
90 mm • f/11 • 1/15 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • 90mm bellowsextension • without tripod • 5000 lux • EV 10.8
October 2009
Part of a fountainpen
Part of a fountain pen nib. Elegant architecture to privide dancing contact with the paper.
90 mm • f/11 • 6 sec • 100 ISO • Micro 4/3 sensor • tripod • 55 lux • EV 4.3
Bee stuck in water
When we get wet, it does not limit ourselves that much, but a bee or other insect that gets wet has an enormous problem: more water can be attached to the body than the insect weighs. On top of that, forces that keep the drop togehter now also keep the insect stuck to the wet surfae. Also, the insect cools down. Now it could warm itself up by using its flight muscles, but that only works if they can still be operated.
5.1 mm • f/9.1 • 1/45 sec • 80 ISO • 9mm sensor • without tripod • 13000 lux • EV 12.2
Incabloc
In order to move further into the Unitas movement (for an overview see 0005), here an image of the IncaBloc of the movement, an important extension because of the fact that the springlike suspension of the jewel (that purple part) takes care of a shock so that the axle of the balance wheel does not break. You can see the principle here: klik and here klik. This picture is also the result in the quest for the best compromise between resolution and depth of field at a magnification beyond four times in the focal plane.
Zeiss Luminar 40/4.5 • f/9 • 1.6 sec • 100 ISO • 24x36 mm • tripod • 140 lux • EV 5.7
Hanging drops
Two drops hanging from the table canvas. Little aspherical lenses.
24 mm • f/22 • 1/2 sec • 50 ISO • 24x36 mm sensor • 64x ND filter • tripod • 620 lux • EV 7.8
September 2009
Cup of tea
On my longer bike rounds through the province of Groningen, I love to drink a cup of tea at the TheeFabriek (Tea Factory) in Houwerzijl (klik). This is the inside of a cup, just before the tea is finished.
5.1 mm • f/2.5 • 1/100 sec • 80 ISO • 9 mm sensor • without tripod • 2100 lux • EV 9.6
Unitas
This is the Unitas 6497 movement, developed around 1950 for pocket watches. You can build a larger casing around it for wearing on the wrist, the movement fills the whole casing. If you find out how to put the watch at night during sleep, an incredible accuracy can be reached of less than 5 seconds per month (klik): during the day you lose a second and during the night you gain it back due to the lower temperature and orientation of the movement. Fascinating that a mechanical watch that is acturally worn can be so accurate....
105mm • f/32 • 2 sec • 800 ISO • 24x36 mm • tripod • 170 lux • EV 6
