TechnologyJune 26, 2013
Who owns photographs taken by scientists?
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.
TechnologyJune 19, 2013
Buzzfeed's viral sharing prompts a necessary stunt
EnvironmentJune 17, 2013
Six tips for better pollinator photographs
TechnologyJune 13, 2013
Thrifty Thursday: the honeycomb, the flashlight, and the iPhone
TechnologyMay 23, 2013
Thrifty Thursday: A common dandelion, a common sunset, a common phone camera
TechnologyMay 22, 2013
Recipe for a Photograph #2: Bee in Flight
TechnologyMay 17, 2013
On not overdiffusing flash in macro photography
TechnologyMay 16, 2013
Thrifty Thursday: The Digital Herbarium
EvolutionMay 12, 2013
Ants and the problem of impostor mothers
The SciencesMay 9, 2013
My longest blog post ever
The SciencesMay 1, 2013
Hiding in Plain Sight
The SciencesApril 23, 2013
Facebook's "I F*cking Love Science" does not f*cking love artists
The SciencesApril 22, 2013
With depth of field, more is not always better
The SciencesApril 18, 2013
Social Insect Photography Tip: Emphasize the Individual
The SciencesApril 17, 2013
Snowflakes, Bias, and Science Photography
TechnologyApril 11, 2013
Thrifty Thursday: Patterns in Nature
Space & PhysicsMarch 29, 2013
A Martian landscape in four billion pixels
The SciencesMarch 28, 2013
On the difference between natural history art photography, and natural history photojournalism
TechnologyMarch 15, 2013
Then, and Now
TechnologyMarch 8, 2013
A Fake Makes it to the Smithsonian's Photo Contest Finalists
TechnologyMarch 7, 2013
Thrifty Thursday: The Ant and the Watery Lens
TechnologyMarch 4, 2013
A simple diffuser for Canon's MT-24EX macro flash
The SciencesMarch 2, 2013
The Scientific American Blog Network is not Scientific American
TechnologyFebruary 28, 2013
Thrifty Thursday: The iPhone and the Grasshopper