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Green Orchid Bee, Euglossa dilemma

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Green Orchid Bee, Euglossa dilemma

Pablo Piedra

Pablo Piedra is a military photographer turned insect fanatic. After retiring in 2019 from 22 years with the military, he moved to Costa Rica with his family. Here he started doing macro photography of the country’s native bugs as a way of staying creative during COVID-19. His wife Daniela helps him look for insects and his son Jaden loves the final results.

Digger Wasp, Sphecidae

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Digger Wasp, Sphecidae

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How did you transition from being a military photographer to an insect photographer?

After my retirement in 2018, I began working as the Multimedia Director for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) in Arlington, VA. In 2019, my family moved to Costa Rica and I became a freelance multimedia content creator.

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Up Close and On the Ground With Canada’s Intrepid Tree Planters

Rita Leistner admits to having nightmares about planting trees. For almost 10 years she worked as a tree planter in the forests of British Columbia, and now she’s the creative force behind Forest for the Trees, a photo book and documentary about the intrepid souls who take on this arduous, relentless, and ultimately rewarding job. In the opening lines of her film she explains how those bad dreams have recurred every six months or so for the last 20 years, “… so it’s obviously something that has never left me.”

In Canada, logging companies hire professional tree planters to place seedlings in the ground by hand. It’s a seasonal job—physically demanding and over rough terrain. Leistner has found that most people can’t appreciate just how demanding it is. In fact, she credits her time planting trees as preparing her for being a photographer in conflict zones. “Someone at my

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Photo essay: Shut-up on Myanmar’s escalating hunger

YANGON — Starvation is climbing throughout Myanmar amid a number of crises — work losses, spiraling foodstuff and fuel price ranges, civil unrest, violence and displacement. Far more and extra people, notably those dwelling in impoverished townships and periurban locations, are battling to place even the most basic food stuff on the table. Mother and father are resorting to coping methods, such as borrowing funds or getting up higher-threat positions, just to feed their youngsters and preserve them selves afloat.

In April, the Environment Foodstuff Plan estimated that 3.4 million added people today could confront hunger in the coming months, on best of the 2.8 million persons who were currently unable to meet their food stuff wants prior to 2021. In response, a new, huge-scale city food stuff operation was introduced in Might, via which WFP aims to reach at minimum 2 million men and women in Myanmar’s biggest metropolitan

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The Best Cameras and Lenses of 2021 According to the EISA Awards

EISA has unveiled its picks for the best products in the photography industry for 2021, and coming out on top as the pick for Best Product overall is the flagship Sony Alpha 1 mirrorless camera.

Established in 1982, the Expert Imaging & Sound Association (EISA) is an international collaboration of technical experts from 60 leading specialist magazines and websites in 29 countries around the world. For the annual EISA Awards, those experts come together to democratically vote on the best products across various categories in each of the fields, which include things like photography, Hi-Fi audio, home theater, and more.

“Every year, the EISA Awards celebrate those new products that offer a combination of the most advanced technology, the most desirable features, the most functional ergonomics and – of course – the best performance for the money,” EISA states. “In essence, EISA highlights the products most likely to be

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Digital Photographer Gear Awards: our favorite lenses so far in 2021

It’s been a funny 18 months. A lot has changed, for better and for worse, but the photo industry has marched on, revealing some interesting gear trends and exciting announcements. 

At Digital Photographer we’re lucky enough to have the opportunity to test and try a wide variety of photo equipment, from all of the major manufacturers (and quite a few smaller names) giving us some insight into the trends in design and philosophy. 

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With lenses, you would think there was a more restricted scope for experimentation among the companies making them, with a lens being a purely functional part of a camera system – but this isn’t necessarily true. Sure, cameras with exciting headline features tend to get the maximum publicity, but lens design has come a long way in just a few years. 

This is perhaps one of the most overlooked facts in

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Buddy of the Hillsborough River

Moments Correspondent

Bob Luce, a retired laptop programmer who life in Carrollwood, likes to go out on the Hillsborough River in Temple Terrace in his inflatable kayak, where he will take close-up photographs of alligators, captures limpkins and their toddlers on the shore and terrific blue herons in flight.

Which is when he’s not pulling trash out the river. If the weather is reasonable, he goes out twice a week for about 3 hrs at a time. He carries 42-gallon and 18-gallon baggage with him and grabber tools of various lengths. He figures that over 12 decades he’s pulled about 50,000 gallons of trash out of the river.

Luce, 75, talked with the Tampa Bay Situations about the river, litter and how he approaches alligators.

You started out cleaning the Hillsborough River about 2009, you say.

I had begun a handful of years right before that cleansing up Sweetwater Creek.

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