Butterfly Alphabet
September 2nd, 2006 at 5:00 pm (Uncategorized)
This delightful poster is available from Butterfly Alphabet.
(Thanks to Kevin Kelly.)
Each of the letters is a close-up photograph from the wing of a butterfly. It took Kjell Sandved, Smithsonian naturalist, author and lecturer, 24 years to find and photograph all the letters without harming the butterflies.
I wonder how Kjell got them to stay still.
Rambler said,
September 3, 2006 at 8:16 am
You pop them in a fridge for ten minutes, in which time they get very sluggish. You snap them, and a few minutes later they’ve recovered and are winging away.