TechnologyAugust 5, 2011
Reader Photo: Widow in the Web
Stories by Alex Wild
Alex Wild is Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books and media outlets.
TechnologyAugust 4, 2011
Thrifty Thursday: the Mantid's Shadow
TechnologyAugust 1, 2011
How much should blog images be compressed?
TechnologyJuly 28, 2011
Thrifty Thursday: Mining through Columbine
TechnologyJuly 25, 2011
The Astonishing Stroboscope of Doc Edgerton
TechnologyJuly 22, 2011
Two bloggy things
TechnologyJuly 21, 2011
Thrifty Thursday: James Waters's iPhone Ants
TechnologyJuly 14, 2011
Thrifty Thursday: What's the Difference between a $200 and a $2,000 Camera?
July 14, 2011
Thrifty Thursday: What's the difference between a $200 and a $2000 camera?
July 5, 2011
Compound Eye: the many facets of science photography
Welcome to Compound Eye, a Scientific American photography blog! The blog is new, but the blogger is not. My name is Alex Wild. I am an entomologist and nature photographer based in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and I have been writing about insects, science, and photography at Myrmecos Blog since 2007.