Illustrations by Claudia McGehee
Begin with a Bee and its story of the life of one queen bee, a rusty-patched bumblebee, teaches us not only about bees but also about our own responsibilities in the natural world
Looking closely at the life cycle of one bee, this book helps readers of all ages understand and appreciate the contributions and significance of all bees. The queen bee’s life unfolds through captivating illustrations, while the authors impart the poetry and basic science of the rusty-patched bumblebee, the first bee to appear on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Endangered Species list.
Super-sized snowflakes: Vermont artists uses microphotography to zoom in on nature
Caleb Foster of Jericho creates images of snowflakes using a microscope, digital camera, and prism Share Updated: 8:41 AM EST Mar 6, 2021
Caleb Foster of Jericho creates images of snowflakes using a microscope, digital camera, and prism Share Updated: 8:41 AM EST Mar 6, 2021
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Show Transcript TEAM. THE APP IS FREE IN GOOGLE PLAY. AND IN THE APP STORE. ONE VERMONT ARTIST IS MAKING WINTER. LAST ALL YEAR LONG. IT S THROUGH A STYLE OF PHOTOGRAPHY. THAT MAY HAVE YOU LOOKING. AT THE NEXT SNOWSTORM IN A WHOLE NEW WAY! JACK THURSTON HAS HIS STORY. ((CALEB FOSTER / Snowflake Photographer: 9:33: it s an odd winter sport for Vermont.)) When temperatures are in the teens or twenties. ((CALEB FOSTER / Snowflake Photographer: 9:44: my family skis and I sit out here playing with snowflakes in a very different way.)) .Caleb Foster (
One of the things I enjoy about it is bringing joy to others, Foster told NECN and NBC10 Boston Friday.
Using a tiny brush to grab individual snowflakes, and a DIY-style microscope and camera setup, Foster super-sizes intricate details of ice crystals. Additionally, he uses a prism to send rainbow colors toward his lens for stunning backgrounds. You get the perfect snowflake, you breathe on it, it melts, it blows away there s a challenge aspect to it that I love, Foster explained.
Caleb was living in Pennsylvania and already experimenting with magnifying flakes when his day job in life sciences research meant a relocation to Jericho, Vermont.
Ashfield photographer’s “Ice Visions” on display at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
Ashfield photographer Erik Hoffner kneels on the ice next to an ice fishing tip-up with one of his “Ice Visions” images. Contributed Photo/Erik Hoffner
Hoffner captures these “galactic oddities” in the ice by skating out on the frozen lakes in the morning. With his camera aimed straight down at the refrozen ice, Hoffner captures black and white images that have the appearance of galaxies filled with shining stars or living cells. Contributed Photo/Erik Hoffner
Hoffner captures these “galactic oddities” in the ice by skating out on the frozen lakes in the morning. With his camera aimed straight down at the refrozen ice, he captures black and white images that have the appearance of galaxies filled with shining stars or living cells. Contributed Photo/Erik Hoffner
Some of Len Burgess s ice crystal photography. Photo courtesy of Len Burgess.
On cold winter mornings, 83-year-old Len Burgess wakes up before dawn, picks up his camera, and checks the storm windows on his Danvers, Massachusetts, home. When conditions are just right, he can photograph delicate ice crystals that form on the surface of the glass between the window panes and the resulting images are stunningly beautiful.
“I’m the ice man. No one else shoots this stuff at all,” Burgess told Artnet News of his new photo series, which he simply calls “Ice Crystals.”
Now retired after running his own advertising agency for nearly 40 years, Burgess has been taking photographs since he was 15, when he received a Kodak box camera as a gift.