Blepharopsis igor siwanowicz biography

Blepharopsis is a mad as a ferret, arrogant scientist roaming the Chernobyl ground zero area with a portable electron microscope in search of.
Igor is a biochemist by education, but for the past two years he's been studying the neuroanatomy of dragonflies, specifically the neural circuits responsible.
Igor Siwanowicz sees things on a small scale – a very small scale.

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Links to some amazing insect macro photography

I know we have a few excellent macro photographers on the forum, but I thought I'd share a couple of links to some other insect macro work that I admire.

Slovakian photographer Ondrej Pakan does some really nice work with insects with water droplets on them. I'm not sure how much if his work is done outdoors with natural dew/rain and how much is done in a studio. If he is doing a lot of work outdoors, then he has a great technique for blurring the backgrounds.

http://500px.com/search?page=1&q=Ondrej+Pakan++insect&type=photos&utf8=%E2%9C%93

http://500px.com/biker11 (Use this link if the first one doesn't work. This includes some images that are not insects.)

I also love the work of Polish born photographer Igor Siwanowicz (now lives in Germany with his wife and cat). He has been mentioned on this site in the past several times. (I even mentioned him in my welcome thread). Still, I thought it was worth another mention since we have some new members. He makes beautiful portrait images of insect

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ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER - Igor Siwanowicz
http://blepharopsis.deviantart.com/

You see his work on Tumblr all of the time — most of the master-class, gorgeous shots of creepy crawlies from the insect world are the work of Polish photographer, Igor Siwanowicz. In particular, the spectacular shots of Praying Mantis, Chameleons, lizards, and so on — (including the chameleon shown above), but who is this guy?

Read on and find out…

I found the following interview with Igor on Pxleyes (http://tinyurl.com/37f8spr) but also check out their site — it shows a great collection of Igor’s work.

Q: Hello and welcome to the Pxleyes community. Please tell us a few words about who [Igor, aka] Blepharopis is.

A: I was born in Krakow, Poland, in 1976, to a pair of biologists – I suppose it was the exposure to all the biology textbooks that shaped my interests early in life. Now when I think of it, my parents might have reinforced my tastes and interests through some reword system; I just hope it wasn’t intentional… So much fo

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The smiling lizards got my attention, and I stayed for the spiders. A close up look at some of our small neighbors.
More about the photographer at Why Evolution is True:

Igor Siwanowicz is a Polish-born biologist who works as a technical assistant in behavioral genetics at the Max Planck institute of Neurobiology in Munich. He’s also a world class nature photographer, specializing in macro photography of animals. I especially love his mantises. Here are some of his images (click to enlarge); you can see many more at the Blepharopsis website—the word is a genus of mantids—or in his book Animals Up Close (a nice Xmas gift for a budding biologist).